Solar panel prices have seen a sustained drop – more than 70 percent since 2009 – but it costs approximately $15,000 or more to have a solar array installed, or $7 to $9 per watt produced. This expense puts one of the most popular alternative energy sources out of...
Energy Efficiency
Rooftop Solar Energy: Disrupting the Standard Cooperative Business Model?
by Kimberly Dailey | Mar 1, 2017
One of the major issues electric cooperatives are facing is stagnant load growth – a problem cited by 35% of utility executives as one of the top three pressing challenges facing their business, according to a survey by Utility Dive. But is rooftop solar energy...
HomeServe Celebrates National HVAC Tune-Up Day September 25
by Kimberly Dailey | Jan 1, 1970
Tune-Up Day Reminds Homeowners to Maintain This Important Whole Home System Norwalk, CT – September 20, 2023 – HomeServe’s 2023 State of the American Home survey found that home heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are the home system most likely...
HomeServe Celebrates National HVAC Tune-Up Day September 25
by Kimberly Dailey | Jan 1, 1970
Tune-Up Day Reminds Homeowners to Maintain This Important Whole Home System Norwalk, CT – September 20, 2023 – HomeServe’s 2023 State of the American Home survey found that home heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are the home system most likely...
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LMI Households Face Obstacles to Achieving Energy Efficiency
Low- and Middle-Income (LMI) households have historically faced obstacles to becoming more energy efficient, despite the outsized impact efficiency measures would have for this population. Low-income households pay more than 7 percent of their income on energy bills,...
Severe Energy Burdens Weigh Heavily on Low-to-Moderate Income Households
A quarter of all U.S. households and two-thirds of low-income households have high energy burdens, meaning they spend more than 6 percent of their annual income on energy costs, and two out of five low-income households have severe energy burdens, meaning that they...
Heat Pumps: What Misconceptions Do Members Have?
Heat pumps are misunderstood by many homeowners – many still believe that they do not adequately heat homes or know very little about them. Heat pumps are more energy efficient, because they move warm air from one space to another instead of generating cold or hot...