Energy Audits- FAQ: Why Should I Get  A Home Energy Audit?

Top reasons for choosing to get a comprehensive home energy audit include:

 

Cost Savings:   A comprehensive home energy audit can help identify ways in which you may be able to save money on your utility bills.

 

Occupant Comfort:   Ever not use a specific room because it is too cold or too hot at a certain time of year? A home energy audit that looks at the house as a system can help address those situations that you've been "living with" because it wasn't clear how to resolve the problem, other than maybe by paying to run the furnace or air conditioner more often.

 

Home Health:   Asthma and allergies can by a byproduct of moisture problems in a house, leaky ductwork, and other common situations. 

 

Home Value:   Not planning to stay in your house indefinitely? Have you ever looked at you annual utility bills in relation to the mortgage payments on your house? Utility bills can be a sizeable part of the total carrying cost of a residence.  Given the chance to buy a house that will cost less to live in which would you be willing to pay more for a house that is inefficient? Other states such as Texas are now requiring that an energy audit be conducted in connection with the sale of a home because a home's efficiency has such a large impact on the cost of actually living there.

 

Energy Independence:   Want to help the United Satates of America reduce its dependence on hostile foreign regimes for our energy?  Residential buildings account for twenty per cent (20%) of our total national energy usage. (Source:BuildingAmerica Program, DOE) Getting more heating out of the energy we currently use helps reduce our energy dependency. 

 

Economic Security:   Increasing our residential energy efficiency means spending money here in the U.S.  Many of the jobs created in connection with implementing residential efficiency measures help create employment prospects for people who were hit hard by the economic downturn.  The more people we put back to work, the greater our collective economic security will be. 

 

Environmental Impact:  Increasing our residential energy efficiency reduces the damage that we do to our environment. The DOE estimates that the residential sector contributes 313.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions to the environment annually.