Confused About Energy Efficient Products?

[Rolando Cartwright]

Sometimes it's easier to pay someone else to do a job that you might
have done yourself. Like repairing the garden shed, or carrying out an
energy management assessment. To find out about saving money on fuel
bills, which essentially is what energy management is all about - or
at least what I view it as, you can put in hours of research, and
still be confused. It's better, in my case in hindsight, to go to
someone who knows how to do it, whose job is to do it, and who'll give
you all the information you need on energy efficiency for free.
Governments around the world are all telling us to be saving carbon,
to reduce carbon footprints, and that means making everything we use
more energy efficient. So it makes sense then, to fund carbon saving
projects that help ordinary people purchase and install products so
they use less energy in the home, and get more from the energy they do
use.
So it's better than paying someone to fix a shed when you could be
getting paid for the job you're good at doing. Because while it's
their job to do energy management, most of the time you're not going
to be paying for their assessments and advice. Find out for yourself -
search online about it.
Paying for the products that make your home more energy efficient may
be where the good news ends though, b because energy efficient
products can be more expensive on the outlay. Even if the running
costs are considerably lower, they are saving carbon but not saving
you money at the point of purchase. This is where green rebates come
in, and if you don't qualify for one, then there's always the
consideration of applying for a green loan.
A green loan can enable you to borrow money to purchase energy
efficient products for your home as part of a wider carbon saving
projects campaign. Paying off the green loan often costs less than the
extra you would have been paying if those old inefficient products
were in use in your home.
Energy management is easy, once you've got someone else to do all the
measurements, assessments, and recommendations. Given that after
installation you're likely to be saving a significant amount of money
due to less energy usage and whence lower running costs, it means
you've saved financially on a range of aspects of introducing better
energy efficiency in your household. And you've saved time too.
Finding out about all of this online is quick and easy. Just let the
energy management web site know some basic facts like how many rooms
you have in your house, your electricity supplier and your water
heating source, and they'll work out where to start with their energy
management assessment.
There are some things you could do yourself, like fixing your shed,
but when it comes to finding out how to install energy efficient
products and saving carbon then you're better off speaking to energy
management professionals.

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