Sentences with phrase «of home efficiency»

Key Highlights: • Conducted structured sequential surveys / interviews of study participants to understand motivators and barriers for adoption of home efficiency upgrades, and, interview participating realtors to gather feedback on their role.

In 2007, Samsø became 100 - percent renewably powered and carbon negative through a combination of home efficiency and conversions to biomass, solar, and wind power.

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Lowe's, the home - improvement giant, recently tapped Cascade to become one of the first vendors involved in the Energy Center, a store within a store that gathers a variety of home - efficiency products, including compact fluorescent bulbs and solar panels.

For example, we are used to the idea of retrofitting homes not built for energy efficiency with solar panels installed on their rooftops.

It provides up to $ 5,000 toward the cost of improving energy efficiency in the home.

In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

We finance a variety of energy and efficiency upgrades that may help you cut your total utility costs and improve the comfort and value of your home.

PACE allows residential and commercial property owners to finance the installation of energy and water efficiency improvements on their homes or businesses without any up - front, out - of - pocket costs.

Whereas today most British Columbians burn natural gas to heat their homes, 15 years from now many of those furnaces will be replaced by high - efficiency heat pumps — electric units that transfer heat from outside your home to warm the air indoors, and work even when it's much cooler outside.

Opening up access to real estate data will allow member agents to offer consumers the convenience of data - driven insights into home sales prices and trends via the web, and to improve the efficiency and quality of their services.»

The highest - rated home agent company of its kind, Working Solutions helps clients improve customer satisfaction, create better customer experiences, increase sales close rates, attain higher average order values, and improve efficiency.

In addition, the FHA insures purchase - and - improvement loans for when you want to buy a home that needs repairs; 203k construction loans for when you want to buy a home that's newly built; and energy - efficiency loans for when you want to finance the costs of energy - efficiency improvements into your loan.

«One Tech Action» empowers non-techie, busy professionals to easily take advantage of technology to multiply their efforts at home and work, increase efficiency, and spend more time with the people who matter the most to them.

But he can operate with equal efficiency from the pocket, and his broken ankle has taught him the value of staying at home.

All scoring efficiencies are adjusted to reflect home field advantage and the strength of the competition.

Negatives: The one problem Loko have had this season is struggling at home against teams that will sit deep in defence and thus nullify their deadly execution and efficiency of their counter-attacking game, emphasised in their shock defeats to Tosno, Amkar and most disappointingly Sheriff Tiraspol in the Europa League.

This indecision may have led one of them to attempt a calamitous back pass which our genuinely world class forward, Alexis, seized on and slotted home with the efficiency we have come to expect.

Though it was a piece of luck for the home side to take the lead, the manner which they capitalized on it underlined their efficiency.

Since the first home - use electric pump was introduced over 20 years ago huge progress has been made in terms of efficiency and safety.

If you have a great filter like that in the Aprilaire High Efficiency Air Cleaner not only will your filter last longer, but you will have 94 % of pollen and mold, 72 % of airborne bacteria and fungi, and 56 % of dust particles removed from your home.

«Whether people are considering buying a new home or remodeling, decorating, landscaping or improving energy efficiency, they will find answers and ideas at the 1985 Parade of Homes.

There are a variety of mobile applications you can consider to boost your efficiency at home.

Washing cloth diapers at home uses 50 to 70 gallons (approx. 189 to 264 litres) of water every three days, which is roughly equivalent to flushing the toilet 15 times a day, unless the user has a high - efficiency washing machine.

Ed Matthew, Director of Energy Bill Revolution said: «Making energy efficiency an infrastructure priority would unlock public capital to make all homes highly energy efficient, generating high levels of economic growth.

The economic benefits of energy efficiency are clear, yet currently not # 1 of the annual UK public infrastructure budget has been spent on initiatives to make homes warmer - a move which would create decent jobs and put our economy on a more stable footing.

«All home buyers will be able to benefit from energy efficiency advice, with those receiving low green ratings of «F» and «G» especially targeted for support and grants to make improvements to cut their costs and carbon emissions.»

Equally, energy efficiency must move up the political agenda, with solutions ranging from home insulation to greater use of community heating.

Current annual spending on energy efficiency improvements in fuel poor homes in England is circa # 490m, a proportion of the GB wide Energy Company Obligation (ECO) programme.

In a bid to avoid criticism, Ms Cooper stressed the environmental benefits of Hips and EPCs, which require all homes to be assessed according to their energy efficiency.

We are still waiting for the UK Government to set out exactly how they will source funding for energy efficiency improvements in low income homes and address some of the shortfall which needs to be met».

They need to ensure that their upcoming energy efficiency programme, the Green Deal, fully delivers where it is needed most, improving the comfort levels of homes and providing affordable warmth to vulnerable households.»

High energy prices, dwindling household incomes and abysmally low standards of domestic energy efficiency are all contributing to a cold homes crisis.

The program, which seeks to significantly increase the number of energy efficiency improvements undertaken, will create green jobs by stimulating investment in energy efficiency improvements for residential homes and small commercial, not - for - profit and multifamily buildings.

Students and faculty at the University of Buffalo are celebrating a second - place finish in a national home building competition focused on super efficiency and solar power.

We look forward to working with NYSERDA and the other partners in the Green Jobs / Green New York program to bring energy efficiency, comfort, health and safety, and building durability improvements to the homes and business of tens of thousands of New York residents over the coming years.

Affordable Warmth Solutions (AWS) is a Community Interest Company (CIC) established by National Grid to help fight fuel poverty by providing new gas connections and investing in energy efficiency measures in homes that lie within the most deprived areas of its gas distribution area (Midlands, the North West, North London and East Anglia) For further information, please visit https://www.affordablewarmthsolutions.org.uk/.

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

A report by Her Majesy's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) identified police forces that didn't comply with Home Office guidance - with massive variation in efficiency, with some processing applications in as little as five days and others taking 165 days.

The backlog is particularly worrying because the Passport Office was one of the few areas of the Home Office celebrated for its competence and efficiency.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Weatherization Assistance Program: This program improves the energy efficiency of the homes of low - income families.

Through an investment of # 2.3 bn per year to provide financial support for households to insulate their homes, and for local authorities to drive take up and delivery of insulation schemes, the next Labour government will drastically improve energy efficiency, bringing 4 million homes up to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C by the end of a parliamentary term.

Since 2009 we have allocated over # 500 million on a range of fuel poverty and energy efficiency programmes, installing more than 900,000 energy efficiency measures in homes across Scotland - nearly one in three of all households have received energy efficiency measures.

Background on the Warm Front and the successor scheme: Since 2000, when the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme was re-branded as Warm Front, with substantial additional funding and the introduction of heating measures to supplement insulation works, the scheme has formed a major element in fuel poverty policy.

We have increased our investment in measures to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes which, in addition to making fuel bills cheaper, has also helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from housing, consistent with our ambitions to combat climate change.

He said the new - look Energy Saving Trust would act as a one - stop shop to extend the use of renewable energy at home and improve efficiency.

The statistics also show that the poorest continue to live in the worst homes with the depth and likelihood of being fuel poor increasing markedly with lower levels of energy efficiency.

Direct assistance is provided in the form of a three - year forgivable loan program that serves to improve Oneida County's housing stock by alleviating codes violations, bringing homes into compliance with Housing Quality Standards (HQS) and improving energy efficiency thereby reducing utility costs.

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If he accepts that savings can be made through investment in insulation, why, when households will face higher tax bills for years to come, is he resistant to our policy, which would give every home in the country an entitlement to # 6,500 - worth of immediate energy efficiency improvements, paid for from the savings that people make on their fuel bills?