Dear Mr. Energy, Are there any new tax credits or rebates for energy audits or weatherization for 2011? I really want to work on making my house more energy efficient this year but I want to make the most of my money. –Budget conscious in Bonlee Dear Budget, The answer is yes! And no. Yes, [...]
Dear Mr. Energy, You are always going on about sealing this, sealing that. Seal your ducts! Seal your attic! Seal your escutcheons (whatever those are)! Is it possible to seal too much? –Wondering in Wendell Dear Wondering, The answer to your question is no, it is not possible to seal too much. But it is [...]
Here is the link to the fact sheet presented by the White House on Cash for Caulkers. Finally! We’ve been waiting for this for a while. We are still interested to find out exactly how this will all go down, but the basics of the program (cut and pasted directly from the fact sheet) seem [...]
Up until now we’ve been telling you that an energy audit and subsequent weatherization will pay for itself in 2-3 years. We have years of data from Energy Star and the Low Income Weatherization program to back this up. But now it’s time to give you real examples of ways that our clients have saved [...]
Caulk Caulk Caulk Caulk. That’s the answer to one very effective way we’ve made our 100 year old rustic Carolina farmhouse more energy efficient. To weatherize our home after our disastrous 1st winter in which we heated all of lower Pittsboro, North Carolina, we caulked and caulked and caulked some more. Oh – did I [...]
Earlier this month we got a ton of calls here at Home Performance NC. Mark, our lead auditor, thought it was probably due to the weather taking a turn, but based on the topic of conversation that morning ’round the old water cooler, I think it was the advent of everyone’s electric bills arriving. Kind [...]
Check it out: When a home energy audit pays Thank you. Thank you very much. We do have a slight disagreement with the article, or maybe with Cash for Caulkers. It’s hard to tell where this is coming from. ”This” being the amount of money they’re budgeting for weatherization retrofits: …getting all that work done [...]
In my last post I focused on Progress Energy’s rebates for duct testing, which can be applied towards a full energy audit done by one of their approved contractors, like us. This post will outline how Progress Energy helps its Carolina customers follow up an energy audit with weatherization to improve a home’s energy efficiency. [...]
This is a re-post of something I wrote last fall, but it is totally worth it to re-post it in case you didn’t read it before or if you somehow have missed what an AMAZING deal Progress Energy is giving to its customers in the Carolinas. Out of all the energy companies that serve central [...]
Recently we’ve gotten a lot of calls and e-mails inquiring about the cost of an energy audit. People are often taken aback at the price (which typically runs between $300 and $500, depending on the size of your home, the number of HVAC units you have, as well as a few other factors. It’s worth [...]