MOCHI Blocks 90% Of Heat Transfer In Windows
Windows are a curse and a blessing. They let light in but solar heat as well. A new process could reduce solar gain.
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How To Prepare Your Home For Summer Heat Waves
From covering windows and planting trees, to upgrading your air conditioning system—PNNL scientists offer tips to keep your home cool in extreme heat.
Improving The Efficiency Of Your Home, Part 1: Insulation & Air Sealing
Energy efficiency can help slow the rate of climate change. Learn about making your home more efficient so you can reduce carbon production and also save money.
Insulated Windows 101 — Double Glazing, Triple Glazing, Thermal Performance, & Potential Problems
Double glazing. Triple glazing. Insulated windows. Double-glazed windows. Triple-glazed windows. You’ve probably heard those terms before, but if you aren’t or haven’t been involved in construction and design work, or in the retrofitting of your own house, then you may not know exactly what they mean.
What About Florida? Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy, & Regulatory Backwardness In The Sunshine State (Part…
The Florida Solar Energy Center is Florida’s independent energy research institute and part of the University of Central Florida. We are a state energy research laboratory and I’d argue that our efforts have been unparalleled in experimentation and measurement of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies applied to housing in Florida. Homes are key to the energy picture in Florida since more than half of the total state electricity consumption is used in the residential sector: 118,453 GWh in 8,786,683 households in 2016.
Self-Powered Smart Windows Make Their Own Electricity
Researchers at Princeton have developed a new solar cell that operates on near UV light to power smart windows that need no connection to a building’s existing electrical system.
$324 Million In Economic Stimuli Across Florida Thanks To YgreneWorks PACE
It’s nice to relay good news from Florida, especially after clean energy in Florida has been under so many attacks. In a Ygrene Energy Fund press release, the company announced that its YgreneWorks™ PACE (property assessed clean energy) program has created 1,945 jobs in Florida. Those clean jobs generated $324 million in economic stimuli across Florida since 2013. Ygrene expects these results to increase several times over.
Residential Energy Efficiency Direct Install Programs — Case Study
Energy and water conservation programs at the municipal, utility, and state levels come in many shapes and sizes. Some are effective, others less so, and predicting a program’s success seems an elusive mixture of art and science. Dr. Doug McKenzie Mohr, a behavioral scientist studying conservation programs for the last … [continued]
Zero Net Energy Projects To Transform Affordable Housing & Grocery Industry
This post originally appeared on CityMinded.org. With the recent signing of SB 32 by the California Governor Jerry Brown, the State will be maintaining its aggressive emission reduction goals and taking it even further to achieve an additional 40% cut in emissions by 2030. This further strengthened effort to reduce … [continued]
Habitat For Humanity Deep Energy Retrofit, Part 1: Principles, Budget & Priorities
Originally published on Energy Smart Ohio. By Nate Adams Here at Energy Smart, we really like a challenge. A deep energy retrofit on a Habitat for Humanity retrofit project? Aiming for the toughest leakage target in the world (Passive House)? Now we’re talking. This is the first in a series … [continued]
