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Showing posts with label Energy Efficiency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy Efficiency. Show all posts
1/17/2024

Costs of Owning a Home Include Utility Bills

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Sales price of a property is not all there is to consider in a home purchase -- there are maintenance, insurance, property taxes, and utilit...
5/30/2023

Saving Money with Sustainable Home Upgrades

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1970s photo of an 1865 house Property owners of both residential and commercial properties know that it's becoming more critical to unde...
5/20/2016

Financing Energy Efficient Property Improvements via the HERO Program (aka PACE)

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The clue to how these programs work when purchasing qualifying energy efficient improvements is in the name:  Property Assessed Clean Energy...
5/20/2015

Have You Heard of PACE for Energy/Water Savings?

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Keeping Cool The Property Assessed Clean Energy Program, or PACE, makes it possible for an owner to finance certain improvements and pay...
3/21/2015

Water Heaters Are About to Cost Much More

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If you need a new water heater, consider buying one in the next three weeks. Effective April 16, 2015, water heater replacement rules will...
2/17/2015

Energy-Efficiency Upgrades and Residential Energy Tax Credits for 2014

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If you made your home more energy efficient in 2014, you might qualify for the residential energy tax credit. Tax credits are especially...
8/31/2011

Cut Your Electric Bills with Solar Energy -- Is It For You?

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Solar energy panels may warm your water, which can lower your water heating costs, or cut your overall cost of electricity.  Solar panels c...
9/22/2010

Going Green: Recycle Your California Appliances

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Is your refrigerator getting more expensive to run? I think mine is because it's now 10 years old, and my electricity usage is going up ...
9/21/2009

Thinking Green: Using Light Colored Roofing and Paint

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In a visit with one of my past clients today (who painted his roof white after his house closed escrow over 10 years ago), it came as a reve...
3/04/2009

Saving Energy Saves Money in Your Home

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Just recently I was in our local Belmont Shore shopping zone and kept walking by a large sidewalk bin of CFL (compact fluorescent light) lig...
2/25/2009

More on Tax Credits and Tax Savings for the Energy Efficient

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Follow the link to this article for more about tax credits in the Stimulus Bill for being energy efficient, i.e., tankless and solar water h...