Energy audit?

Question

I have heard that the illuminating company or someone like that will come out to your house and do an audit to help you save energy and will also help pay for some of the upgrades like to the water heater windows stuff like that. Does anyone know anything about this?

Answer 1

Every country, state, province or city  has different abilities to assist you. Countries are being asked to save energy and some have incentive programs.

Contact your city representative, elected officials, state representative, utility company, etc to see the incentive programs and how you qualify.

There is a lot you should know about buildings because the last thing you want is to have a sick building and affect the health of the people in it. Babies are especially vulnerable so it is important to pay attention to your purchase or renovation.

Buildings are supposed to be an engineered science but due to the fact compliance couldn't be seen, it has now become a big economy about selling our resources for profit instead of need. We are forgetting the simple basics that the planet we are ripping up to build stuff is also the delicate ecosystem that sustains all life.

Buildings are insulated and designed for regional temperatures. There are designed with great accuracy in a calculator, insured and never verified as code compliant.

I participated in extensive research to let education and sciences see temperature outside the calculator. Go to the next link to see energy use in buildings in the winter. The link will show you the type of heat loss service your power company may supply.  http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h...

Buildings use energy in the summer and the following link will let you see energy use as well as solar impact taking buildings outside design temperatures. Solar impact is much more significant, we just couldn't see it.

http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h...

Buyer beware, it is your investment in health and wealth.

Answer 2

Yes.   Some utilities provide free audits for homeowners - but the specific details about who is eligible for an audit, and what other benefits and rebates are available, can be quite different depending on who your utility is.

I would suggest going to the web page of your local electric company.   This is exactly the sort of stuff that your electric company will publicise on their site, and since it varies a lot from utility to utility, you'll want to look into the details for YOUR utility.

Good luck.