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Ever wonder why your home seems to always be cold in the winter and uncomfortably warm in the summer? According to Energy Upgrade California, an energy efficiency program administered under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission, if your home was built prior to the 1970s, it probably doesn’t have wall insulation. If it was built prior to the 1960s, it may not have any insulation at all. With the large number of older [Read More...]

Sunny skies, warm weather, beautiful beaches – seems like San Diego has it all.  But for many San Diego residents, warm muggy air inside the home is no picnic at the beach.  It’s not blazing hot, but warm enough to make you uncomfortable.  To cap it off, when the temperatures cool at night, it takes a long time for your home to cool with it.  Here’s a solution you may not have considered – installing [Read More...]

If you live in a manufactured or mobile home and are a current customer of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), there’s good news for you. Synergy Companies has recently re-launched an energy efficiency program specifically for mobile home residents throughout PG&E territory – this includes areas such as Fresno and the Central Valley, the San Francisco Bay Area, and more. This program, officially called the Direct Install for Manufactured and Mobile Homes Program, offers [Read More...]

Home Energy Retrofit Opportunity (HERO) Program A few weeks ago we shared information on a residential PACE financing program available to Riverside County homeowners that is designed to help them improve the energy efficiency of their homes. We’re so excited about what this can do for residents of the area that we wanted to share a little more about how it works. The HERO Financing Program is sanctioned by the Western Riverside Council of Governments [Read More...]

As a Southern California resident, you may be the recipient of high energy bills but don’t even know where to begin to find the right solution. Summer is creeping up on us all, and with it generally comes an increase in our utility bills. Southern California summers can be rather costly and we generally find ourselves paying more than we would like to keep our homes cool. The irony of this predicament we find ourselves [Read More...]

With such beautiful weather in the San Francisco Bay Area, those who live elsewhere may think proper home insulation is a non-issue. But the reality for those who live there is that insulation may make all the difference in the world, especially for the many people who don’t own central air conditioning. I lived in an apartment in the East Bay in Hayward, CA for a few years, and we didn’t have central air conditioning. [Read More...]

Perhaps you’ve had a whole house fan before. Or maybe you’ve just been in someone else’s home who has had one. Wherever you’ve come across them, your experience with whole house fans probably tells you that they are usually anything but quiet. And this is one of the things that make Quiet Cool Whole House Fans so unique. Most whole house fans are so loud that they seem to make your home rattle and shake. [Read More...]

Last week we shared information in a new PACE financing program available to Sacramento homeowners that is designed to help them improve the energy efficiency of their homes. We’re so excited about what this can do for residents of Sacramento that we wanted to share a little more about how it works. Clean Energy Sacramento is sanctioned by the City of Sacramento, and is managed and funded by Ygrene. Ygrene has generously allowed us to [Read More...]

Riverside homeowners are all too familiar with how expensive it can be to constantly run an air conditioner to keep your home cool. Some people opt to open up windows to get some fresh air, and take advantage of cool outdoor air. The problem is that open windows don’t always translate into circulation or a breeze. Enter the Quiet Cool Whole House Fan. These fans are installed in your attic and pull in fresh, outdoor [Read More...]