Planner’s Notes

Stumble upon a colleague from my past doing some great work at the Environment and Energy Study Institute in DC.  Thought his newsletter Clean Motion was worth sharing.

National Grid has contracted with Conservation Services Group to provide free energy audits to their customers.  I scheduled the audit in mid-June and CSG conducted their on-site survey yesterday.  Nat, the CRS professional, arrived as planned at 11:30 am and left us after replacing most of our incandescents with CFLs about 1 pm.  He also left a print out of recommendations, approximate costs and pay back period.  The walk-through was very informative.  In addition to learning that we have no insulation in our walls, I was told that the spider webs in the corners of the basement helped identify leaks in our insulation (apparently spiders prefer locating their homes in the path of the breeze - also the flight path of meal-time bugs).  Now to find someone to help with insulation…