[RKDinOKC]

Had a bissell I only used about a year when it dumped a half gallon of water in the middle of the floor. I gave it to Good Will.

Well, got emailed my energy audit.

My recommended improvements were..
Air Tightness, savings $19 per year.
Attic insulation, savings $19 per year.
Duct System, savings $52 per year. (my ducts are in-slab except for returns in attic and he didn't even look at them).

All the guy did was read the dates installed off my furnace and water heater, NOT the energy usage and ratings stuck to them. And glanced in the attic to guess the average thickness of the insulation. That is all he looked at!

The most surprising thing was $464 a year for my gas water heater. My highest energy costing item! More than my heating and cooling added together! My gas bill last month was $38. That's for the water heater and the pilot light on the heater. That's only $456 for 12 months. Where did they get $464 for just the water heater?

Audit lists my highest savings to replace 16 year old HVAC with a heat pump and save $252 a year. Don't remember what the rating was but when installed it was the most efficient at the time and I got a tax write off for it's efficiency for 2 years. Audit says heater should be about 1/3 my energy usage. They list it a 15%?

Says every degree higher in summer and every degree lower in winter saves 2% on the energy bill. 2% is pretty significant for $180.
Says the ideal temp for summer is 78°F.

Audit says the power strip for my TV/Stereo/CableBox will save $25 a year, but it only calculates to $11 if the cable box and stereo were NEVER turned on. The second power strip was supposed to be for my computer. Said it would save $8 a year. My Calculations is $1 a year over sleep mode for an entire year of never using the computer.

Seems like a lot of made up numbers to me. Both in where the usage is going and what anything I do is going to save me. Makes me want to look into a meter that connects up to my breaker box and gives more accurate detailed info on where every electron goes.

Anyway, signed up for the summer peak load plan. From June thru Sept electricity is $0.05/kWh except from 2pm to 7pm it is $0.19/kWh. The rest of the year it is the normal rate $0.8. Their evaluation of my usage over the past year claims it will save me $156 per year even without their Peak Alert Thermostat. The peak alert thermostat is supposed to receive high usage alerts only during very high load periods sometime during the 2pm to 7pm higher rate time and not turn on your A/C. Says the alert times are not every day or for the entire 5 hours. Their thermostat is supposed to run the A/C for an hour before the 2pm higher cost period so it will not warm up too much during the off time. Says you can override it if you get uncomfortable. It comes with a guarantee that if for the first year is does not save me the $152 they will credit my bill with the difference.

My next door neighbor also works from home and says he is on the peak plan with the thermostat and doesn't notice any difference. His electric bill was quite a bit lower than mine. His HVAC is 5 years newer than mine. Don't know how much difference that makes.