Pontas Home diárias do Renovation

This page lists home energy conservation ideas that we either use ourselves or have sufficiently researched to believe of merit.

Like many topics, energy conservation is very subjective. There is no truly best practice because:

• what is best in one set of factors may not be best in a different set of factors (e.g. electric tankless water heaters may be best where the energy is supplied by a solar PV panel but not when it comes from a coal burning power generation station)
• each person has different beliefs and priorities (e.g. saving the planet at all costs vs saving money at all costs vs anywhere in between)

Therefore we have used subjective ratings within each category to rank each tip. Words like cheap, moderate, simple, complex, and so on mean different things to different people; however, we have used such generalizations rather than try to actually calculate specific numbers which, while helpful, are totally dependant on a wide variety of factors. 

Here is our current list. We will update date it every now and again as we uncover additional energy conservation tips. We welcome your comments on our list, especially for additional energy conservation tips that we have missed.

The DailyHomeRenoTips Energy Conservation Spreadsheet is too wide to be displayed across the page. If you would like to access it on line to see all of the columns and categorizations at once, simply select this link to the DailyHomeRenoTips Energy Conservation Tips file.

However, how does one categorize an energy conservation tip? There are many, many different ways.

It is because much of energy usage is seasonal (for example home heating in the winter, home air conditioning in the summer) we have decided to present our above list based on :

• Energy Reduction Category
  • The type of energy reduced by the energy conservation tip
• Energy Consumed by the energy conservation tip itself
  • For example, caulking material consumes no energy while high efficiency furnace still consumes energy
• Installation Complexity
  • The leve of difficulty for the average home owner to install the tip
• Installation Cost
  • The cost to the home owner to install / adhere to the energy conservation tip
• Frequency
  • The number of times the energy conservation tip may need to be repeated
• Payback Potential
  • The relative potential for the average home owner to save money by implementing the tip