Appliances and Plug Loads
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Home Electricity Monitoring
A year's worth of data is informative for learning how you use energy, which shines the light on ways to economize. Here are some easy-to-adopt home-energy-use monitoring tools.
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Planning for Back-up Power
What is the best electric panel configuration to service a house during a power outage?
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How to Map Electrical Circuits
A systematic approach to mapping electrical panel circuits and organizing the data in preparation for going all electric
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What Happens to Used Electricity?
Electricity gets converted to heat, most of which stays inside the house
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Going All Electric in a Cold Climate
Data-supported strategies and systems for transitioning away from fossil fuel and toward all-electric energy
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Impact of Internal Gains on Energy Usage
Sources of waste heat and how it contributes to energy performance
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The Potential of Phase Change Materials
Phase change materials got off to a slow commercial start but have emerged in a revised form to promise reduced energy use
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Getting to Zero on Every Front
This Living Building Challenge–certified home has no conventional heating or cooling equipment, no municipal water supply or well, and no sewer or septic, and it makes more energy than it consumes.
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Why Zero Energy “Ready” Makes Sense
The Department of Energy’s program is about much more than energy efficiency
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DIY Energy-Usage Monitor
A software engineer invents a whole-house monitor to measure energy consumption on a breaker-by-breaker basis
