Heating and cooling systems account for almost half
of residential energy use in the United States, costing us major money and emissions.
The percentage distribution of
residential energy use by energy type was as follows: Natural Gas 47.7 %, Electricity 34.6 %, RRP 10.1 %, and Others 7.6 %.
The rise of utility - scale and rooftop solar as a share of California's overall power mix have flooded the state's grid with cheap power during the old midday peak hours, and led to fast - rising ramp - ups in energy demand in the late afternoon, when solar fades away and
residential energy use increases.
Energate's software and devices upload data
on residential energy use — whether from heat, air conditioning or a swimming pool — into the cloud, either through a smart meter or a router.
Research Study:
Residential Energy Use Behavior Change Pilot, by Ed Carroll, Franklin Energy, Eric Hatton, Franklin Energy and Mark Brown, Greenway Insights, 2009.
Jessoe, K. and D. Rapson (2014): «Knowledge is (less) power: Experimental evidence
from residential energy use,» American Economic Review, 104, 1417 - 1438.
Residential energy use disclosure is a promising policy option for a number of reasons, including (1) how it might motivate people to address valuation of energy - efficient homes in the...
Residential energy used by end use was distributed as follows: space heating 61.1 %, water heating 20.8 %, appliances 13.5 %, lighting 4.1 %, and space cooling 0.5 % (Natural Resources Canada, 1997).
Heating and cooling expenses make up 47.7 %
of residential energy use, and thus have the most potential for utility bill savings.
The deadliest outdoor pollution source — accounting for 31 %, or about 1 million, of premature deaths in 2010 — is
residential energy use, such as furnaces.
In fact, students» projects will become part of the city's application for the $ 5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize, a civic competition to reduce municipal and
residential energy use.
Increased appliance and machinery efficiency could lower industrial and
residential energy use.
Between 1990 and 2003, the increase in
residential energy use was only 40 per cent of what it would have been without energy efficiency gains,» says the Observer.