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Smart Utility Bill Disaggregation

Energy auditors use a simple, well-known approach called a utility bill disaggregation to analyze a home's overall energy use. Here's a quick summary of that technique as detailed in Krigger and Dorsey's Residential Energy:

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Blowing Smoke

By Paul Raymer

Long ago, when I started in this business, I wished for a pair of glasses that I could put on to see how the air was moving. (Now I wear glasses all the time just ...

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Wasting Energy or Catching Fire

By Abe Kruger

Builders nationwide are installing more and more home fire sprinkler systems. Often the motivation for installation is the requirement in the 2009 International Residential Code (IRC) for automatic fire sprinkler systems in townhomes and one- and ...

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Pimp My Blower Door Kit: Blower Door Makeover

By Greg Labbe

In these tough economic times, it's appropriate to invest time in repairing and maintaining things, to make manufactured goods last longer and to save money. Besides, it feels good to repair something yourself, and working ...

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Deep Energy Retrofit X10

By Brennan Less, Jeremy Fisher and Iain Walker

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab offers a look into ten of California's cutting-edge deep energy retrofits.

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First Things First: Insulating Wall Cavities

By Bob Pfeiffer

A large portion of my work as a project manager at Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC) is teaching weatherization workers the dynamics of energy movement in buildings, how to measure it, treat houses effectively, and, ...