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Energy Efficient Homes

Complete list of energy efficient new homes and home builders resources

Energy-Efficient New Homes and Home Builders

 

 

Energy-Efficient New Homes  

  • Energy-Efficient Mortgages Program

    U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
    The Energy Efficient Mortgages Program (EEM) helps homebuyers or homeowners save money on utility bills by enabling them to finance the cost of adding energy-efficiency features to new or existing housing as part of their FHA-insured home purchase or refinancing mortgage.
     
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  • Financing Home Energy Efficiency: EEM Handbook

    Florida Solar Energy Center
    A handbook detailing FHA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac guidelines for consumers interested in Energy Efficient Mortgages.
     
  • Home Loan Guaranty Services

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
    Information on home loan benefits for veterans.
  • New Homes

    ENERGY STAR Find home builders and developers that build ENERGY STAR qualified new homes; lenders that offer energy efficient mortgages; utilities that offer special incentives to buyers, builders and developers of ENERGY STAR qualified new homes; and home energy raters that can verify the energy efficiency of a home.
     
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  • Products and Services

    Log Homes Council
    Find suppliers of products and services for log homes.
  • Home Builders

Home Heating

 

 

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Picking a Qualified Service Technician

The technician should be able to provide proof of his Oil Heating License; law requires it.
This and other factors in determining his/her qualifications are discussed in my Special Report.

Smart controls: The latest in micro-processing technologies allows the system to automatically adjust itself to changing environmental requirements resulting in fewer on/off cycles. This reduces fuel consumption, wear on equipment, exhaust emissions and electrical usage by the system.

High-pressure flame retention burners: Hotter flames with less air and fuel required are evidence of improvements in the high-flow atomization and vaporizing technologies used in the newer burners today.

Safe: Fuel oil, in its natural liquid state, wont burn. It must be vaporized to ignite. It will not burn if a lit match is thrown into a puddle of it. By virtue of this quality, it cannot explode when exposed to a spark or flame. Also, heating oil fumes are not poison like natural gas.

Clean Burning: The average oil burning system emits 6 ounces of particulate emissions (soot) per year or roughly 1/8th of a pound of soot for every ton of fuel oil burned. That marks a 95% improvement over the last 25 years or so. There are no federal regulations on heating oil emissions.

If you heat with another source of energy or are building new, then you should be aware that heating oil is a viable option to meet your familys heating needs.

Heating oil technology has kept pace with the competition from other heating options and in some cases surpassed it. If you currently heat with oil, then it is a safe bet that it will continue to serve you well into the new century before us.

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