Residential Solar PV Installation
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What is a Home Energy Audit?
A key step to understanding how you use energy in your home is doing a home energy audit. An energy audit usually means you walk through your home and analyze all the systems that impact how you use energy. There are two ways to approach a home energy audit: finding a professional or doing your own.
DIY Home Energy Audit:
What is HERS rating?
HERS (Home Energy Rating System) is a rating system developed by RESNET in order to measure how efficient a home performs. From the RESNET About Us page:
Plug-in hybrid mileage
Most drivers know what miles-per-gallon (MPG) is for a traditional gasoline, diesel, or other liquid powered vehicles. With plug-in hybrids, it’s a bit more challenging, because they are powered by both electricity and gasoline.
How to monitor your home's energy consumption
The following information on home energy monitoring appeared as the first section in our free energy conservation guide.
What is Color Temperature?
Put simply, color temperature is the color of light that comes out of a light bulb. It is given on the product packaging as a number with the units of Kelvin, K. The lower the number, the more red or orange (usually defined as warm) the light appears and the higher the number the bluer the light appears (usually defined as cool).
