{"id":42779,"date":"2015-05-25T03:24:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T03:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owegopennysaver.com\/?p=42779"},"modified":"2015-05-25T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T03:24:21","slug":"saving-money-by-getting-a-grip-on-our-energy-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2015\/05\/25\/saving-money-by-getting-a-grip-on-our-energy-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving money by getting a grip on our energy future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42780\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/owegopennysaver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WGOPEnergy_Future.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42780\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42780\" src=\"http:\/\/owegopennysaver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WGOPEnergy_Future-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Saving money by getting a grip on our energy future\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Dundon, owner of The Insulation Man, offers a presentation at the Hubbard Auditorium.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_42780\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/owegopennysaver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WGOPEnergy_Future.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42780\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42780\" src=\"http:\/\/owegopennysaver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WGOPEnergy_Future-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Saving money by getting a grip on our energy future\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Dundon, owner of The Insulation Man, offers a presentation at the Hubbard Auditorium.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_42780\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/owegopennysaver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WGOPEnergy_Future.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42780\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42780\" src=\"http:\/\/owegopennysaver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WGOPEnergy_Future-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Saving money by getting a grip on our energy future\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Dundon, owner of The Insulation Man, offers a presentation at the Hubbard Auditorium.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wednesday evening, May 13, saw 25 locals turn out at the Hubbard Auditorium in Owego to get practical tips on how to take control of personal energy consumption.\u00a0Gay Canough, owner of <i>ETM Solar Works<\/i>, Endicott, shared her personal list of actions she\u2019s taken to lower her energy use.\u00a0Topping that list is reducing her energy use, or load.\u00a0The underlying principle behind this priority action, and all of the other actions in her list, is that the cheapest energy going is the energy you don\u2019t use.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Dundon, owner of <i>The Insulation Man<\/i>, Binghamton, stepped through examples of the effects of poorly insulated homes, where money flows out of a building through heat loss in the winter.\u00a0For example, simple but often overlooked fixes, like ensuring that duct joints are sealed, makes a sizable difference in lowering energy use and cost.<\/p>\n<p>While Canough and Dundon covered topics that have become at least somewhat familiar to home owners, Joe Keyes of <i>Heat Tek<\/i>, Endicott, discussed a topic that has long been considered pretty much \u201cmaxed out\u201d, with only minor efficiency gains achievable:\u00a0 heating and cooling one\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Keyes gave an overview of the progress that\u2019s been made in the field of heating and cooling; specifically air- and ground-source heat pumps. While heat pumps have been around for a long time, their cost and limited ability to generate heat in brutal Southern Tier winter temperatures have made their use for most homeowners unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>Keyes stepped attendees through the major changes that have been made to heat pumps, including the introduction of a hyper heat unit that heats when the temperature outside drops to -13 degrees F (after that the unit still runs, with reduced BTUs). The heat pumps save up to 2 to 3 times the energy used in traditional furnaces.\u00a0He gave the rather stunning example of Japan, where 90 percent of homes there have heat pumps, resulting in a 40 percent drop in load on their energy grid.<\/p>\n<p>Connect that technology with solar power, and one is pretty much free of paying for energy from utilities. That is exactly what Dr. Canough is in the midst of doing. She has sized the number of solar panels needed to power heating and cooling in her own home and finds that she can add them to the other panels she already has installed on the roof of her small house &#8211;\u00a0powered by the sun.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s taking control of her energy future.\u00a0That\u2019s saving big bucks.\u00a0And that\u2019s energy independence.<\/p>\n<p><i>This presentation review was written by Janet Thomas of RAFT (Residents Allied for the Future of Tioga), sponsor of \u201cTaking Control of Our Energy Future While Saving Big Bucks\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday evening, May 13, saw 25 locals turn out at the Hubbard Auditorium in Owego to get practical tips on how to take control of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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