Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2016 15:28:53 GMT
John has an interesting home that is part of a development.
He bought it six years ago, before the foundation was being poured, and he had a chance to specify that a radiant heat barrier should be placed below the foundation. He went out and bought it himself and had it put in.
As of this writing, National Grid tells him that his house performs 56% below comparables in terms of energy demand.
Here is the report in his own words:
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Our winter (heating) gas consumption for the past two seasons has been 56% lower than our neighbors. Our savings is usually just shy of $700/annually compared to our average neighbors. Of course, since the house is made of SIPS, few people raise an eyebrow, because the expected energy savings for SIP houses is allegedly around 40%. I find that hard to believe, but it may be correct.
You will see the savings reflected in the attached doc, although in this doc, the 56% is not spelled out as it is in the other, similar docs that Nat. Grid has sent.
As indicated, my objective is to minimize energy consumption. Zero-energy is one thing. Zero (or even plus) energy using minimal consumption, is in my opinion, the trick. I know Rogier agrees with that principle.
We have both LED lighting, computer and TV systems, in addition to an undersized solar PV array (2.3 kW.) - all the making for a residential harmonics filter to lower the electric bill.
This house is actually a showcase. If you Google Syracuse Live Work you will get several hits including the 2012 A.I.A. award for 1 & 2 family House of the Year. The Architect is Cook + Fox and among other references, they have put up a website about their prize home. When you see the pictures of it, you will see we have (2) 10' high custom, north-facing doors. I suspect a LOT of radiant heat passes through them, summer and winter.
Given the variety of energy saving systems I'm about to install, I believe it *may* be better to space the installations out to determine the biggest bang for the buck. On the other hand, if I can lower the energy consumption summer and winter by implementing all these subsystems at one time, we may find a very significant overall reduction that could be used as a model quickly.
To date, not one institution has been willing to work with me on implementing and documenting the energy efficiency improvements. I'll do it in spite of them and make sure they get no credit when I present the results. Having spent 21 years in IT at AXA Financial, a $1T+ multinational corporation in over 65 countries, I know how horse-blinded bureaucrats can be. Most of them are just looking for the day they can retire and do nothing wrong by doing nothing. I'm also a severe and arrogant pain in the ass who is very adept at pissing people off to the point where they have no interest in working with me. Nothing like a little ADD to make life more challenging and non-academic (read: professional)
Rogier, feel free to distribute this e-mail.
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He bought it six years ago, before the foundation was being poured, and he had a chance to specify that a radiant heat barrier should be placed below the foundation. He went out and bought it himself and had it put in.
As of this writing, National Grid tells him that his house performs 56% below comparables in terms of energy demand.
Here is the report in his own words:
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Our winter (heating) gas consumption for the past two seasons has been 56% lower than our neighbors. Our savings is usually just shy of $700/annually compared to our average neighbors. Of course, since the house is made of SIPS, few people raise an eyebrow, because the expected energy savings for SIP houses is allegedly around 40%. I find that hard to believe, but it may be correct.
You will see the savings reflected in the attached doc, although in this doc, the 56% is not spelled out as it is in the other, similar docs that Nat. Grid has sent.
As indicated, my objective is to minimize energy consumption. Zero-energy is one thing. Zero (or even plus) energy using minimal consumption, is in my opinion, the trick. I know Rogier agrees with that principle.
We have both LED lighting, computer and TV systems, in addition to an undersized solar PV array (2.3 kW.) - all the making for a residential harmonics filter to lower the electric bill.
This house is actually a showcase. If you Google Syracuse Live Work you will get several hits including the 2012 A.I.A. award for 1 & 2 family House of the Year. The Architect is Cook + Fox and among other references, they have put up a website about their prize home. When you see the pictures of it, you will see we have (2) 10' high custom, north-facing doors. I suspect a LOT of radiant heat passes through them, summer and winter.
Given the variety of energy saving systems I'm about to install, I believe it *may* be better to space the installations out to determine the biggest bang for the buck. On the other hand, if I can lower the energy consumption summer and winter by implementing all these subsystems at one time, we may find a very significant overall reduction that could be used as a model quickly.
To date, not one institution has been willing to work with me on implementing and documenting the energy efficiency improvements. I'll do it in spite of them and make sure they get no credit when I present the results. Having spent 21 years in IT at AXA Financial, a $1T+ multinational corporation in over 65 countries, I know how horse-blinded bureaucrats can be. Most of them are just looking for the day they can retire and do nothing wrong by doing nothing. I'm also a severe and arrogant pain in the ass who is very adept at pissing people off to the point where they have no interest in working with me. Nothing like a little ADD to make life more challenging and non-academic (read: professional)
Rogier, feel free to distribute this e-mail.
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