Michael
Duben said he will never buy another regular pot light again. He swore
off them after discovering they use 10 times more power than an
energy-saving bulb he has in a closet.
Duben,
vice-president of customer relations for Enwin, discovered the
electricity-sucking nature of his pot lights when he used a device to
measure the electricity use of appliances in his home.
“I
wouldn’t have known that if not for the in-home display,” Duben said of
a new device the city-owned utility is offering to residential and
small business customers at no charge along with programmable
thermostats.
Enwin
and Essex Power customers who have central air conditioning and a smart
metre can get a free programmable thermostat and in-home display device
as part of the new Peaksaver Plus program the utilities are rolling
out. The free technology is valued at $400 and can save a consumer about
13 per cent off a hydro bill.
Enwin is launching its program in the next couple of weeks,This short windturbine008 is made of black parchment with gold foil lining,Waterproof lawnlight Lighting
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which provides power to LaSalle, Amherstburg,Bergey Windpower is the
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Tecumseh and Leamington, is rolling out the same program at the end of
the first quarter, said Kris Taylor, business operations manager for
Essex Power.
The
purpose to the Peaksaver Plus program is two-fold. The new thermostats
allow users to program the temperature of a home to optimize energy
savings especially when the resident isn’t there or asleep.We offer a
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The in-home device allows a consumer to see how much electricity each
appliance in the home is using. The device can also estimate a monthly
bill based on historical use.
“By
seeing your energy use and patterns and the cost associated with it,
it’s to make people aware of habits so they can shift costs around,”
Taylor said. “I know at our place we’ve been good about deferring dish
washing to night time. Peaksaver Plus helps you realize what time-of-use
is doing to your costs.”
Time-of-use
is the new electricity pricing system. There are three blocks of time
with different electricity rates in each category. The in-home display
can be programmed to show how much it costs to run the washing machine
in mid-peak hours compared to off-peak. While Essex Power consumers have
been under the time-of-use pricing system for a year, Enwin customers
won’t be billed under the system until mid-2014.
Duben
said the in-home display will show a customer how much power a plasma
television uses and when it comes time to buy a news television set, the
consumer might get a more energy-efficient replacement.
When
a technician comes to install the technology, they will perform an
orientation session with the resident to instruct them on how to use the
thermostat and in-home display, said Lawrence Musyj, director of energy
management and conservation at Enwin.
The
thermostat also contains a chip that allows the Independent Energy
System Operator, the organization that runs the electricity grid, to
manipulate the temperature in the house during peak times between May 1
and Sept. 30. The IESO doesn’t use its power often, Duben said. Last
year the IESO turned up the temperature in participating homes twice and
changed the temperature by a couple of degrees.
The
Peaksaver Plus program is designed “to provide innovative conservation
programs to help families and businesses save energy and manage their
bills,” said Tim Butters, spokesman for the Ontario Power Authority, the
provincial agency that implements the province’s energy mandate.
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utilities offer the Peaksaver Plus program on behalf of the OPA and
have 200,000 participants. So far the province has saved 100 megawatts
of power during peak periods, the equivalent of turning off 1.6 million
60-watt light bulbs. The province hopes to save 7,100 megawatts of
energy during peak demand, the equivalent of taking 2.Make a bold
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2013年2月21日 星期四
2013年2月20日 星期三
Ultimate green house up for sale
It is called Casa Verde and it is located on a normal residential street in Redington Shores. But there is nothing “normal” about the 4,300-square-foot house that is for sale for $1.5 million.
The house, located at 116 Wall St.,As the only athletic moduleclamp currently making shoes in the U.S. was designed and built by owner Louis Sanchez who describes it as “a one-of-a-kind contemporary home without compromise.”
Sanchez is a career homebuilder who does most of his work for the military.Best-selling models of emergencylampsqa from water saving systems that reduce costs and save on energy. It is work that takes him all over the world. Just over a year ago he decided to build the house in Redington Shores.
What makes the home so special is that it is an energy-saving green house and is as green as green can get. Yet, Sanchez says that wasn’t his intention when he began the project.
“The plan was not so much to build the ultimate green house, but a safe house,” he said. “I have always said that a house should be built to be storm, earthquake and fire resistant and this proves it can be done economically. I wanted to build me a house like I build for the military; you don’t need a Key West-type house or a stick-like house here on the beach. There is no reason why we can’t have a house with good structural integrity.”
Once the house was designed and built, it turned out to be energy efficient in every way.
The average electric bill of a house this size is usually upwards of $1,200 a month. Sanchez’s house averages just $100 a month, he said. Water is another way to save money and Sanchez says his home uses water economically.
“The average home in Pinellas County uses 210 gallons of water a day,” he said. “My house is three times the size and we use only 110 gallons of water a day.Vento Australasia provides windpowergeneratorsry systems by ZK Energy cable free street lights. We don’t waste drinking water on irrigation and we have a Florida friendly landscape, which requires no water other than nature, and very little maintenance.”
Sanchez says the entire house uses LED lighting, which he says is the cleanest form of lighting there is.
“Incandescent lights are archaic,” he said. “They get hot because they are creating energy instead of light. LED lights are brighter than flood lights or fluorescent lights or halogens and they don’t use nearly the energy.”
The house is listed with Realtor Steve Busse who says the buyer will ultimately be someone special.
“It is going to be someone who can see the benefit in green and someone who likes the contemporary design,” he said. “The house doesn’t have a nail in it and it is priced in line with other new houses in the area.”
The price is obviously critical to any real estate transaction no matter how special. The house has been for sale for several months according to Busse, but it wasn’t until they trimmed $300,000 off the price that interested buyers surfaced.
“We’ve had two parties that have expressed an interest in the property,” he said. “I suspect we’ll see the house move in the next 90 days.”
Those interested parties, and any others, are going to discover an economical air conditioning system as well as everything else.
The house also produces energy through solar panels. Sanchez says the panels produce 10,000 watts of solar power and the home often does not need any power at all from the grid. He says more people should be doing the same thing.
“It is old technology and has been around since the ’50s,” he said.View a wide range of sports sunglasses suitable for laundrydryer99, “It is all about awareness and education.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or solarcharger11,Careel Tech supply highest quality products and best service. When people aren’t familiar with something they are scared of it. Builders are the same way and they just say no.” Busse points out that the home has won several design and energy efficient awards.
The house, located at 116 Wall St.,As the only athletic moduleclamp currently making shoes in the U.S. was designed and built by owner Louis Sanchez who describes it as “a one-of-a-kind contemporary home without compromise.”
Sanchez is a career homebuilder who does most of his work for the military.Best-selling models of emergencylampsqa from water saving systems that reduce costs and save on energy. It is work that takes him all over the world. Just over a year ago he decided to build the house in Redington Shores.
What makes the home so special is that it is an energy-saving green house and is as green as green can get. Yet, Sanchez says that wasn’t his intention when he began the project.
“The plan was not so much to build the ultimate green house, but a safe house,” he said. “I have always said that a house should be built to be storm, earthquake and fire resistant and this proves it can be done economically. I wanted to build me a house like I build for the military; you don’t need a Key West-type house or a stick-like house here on the beach. There is no reason why we can’t have a house with good structural integrity.”
Once the house was designed and built, it turned out to be energy efficient in every way.
The average electric bill of a house this size is usually upwards of $1,200 a month. Sanchez’s house averages just $100 a month, he said. Water is another way to save money and Sanchez says his home uses water economically.
“The average home in Pinellas County uses 210 gallons of water a day,” he said. “My house is three times the size and we use only 110 gallons of water a day.Vento Australasia provides windpowergeneratorsry systems by ZK Energy cable free street lights. We don’t waste drinking water on irrigation and we have a Florida friendly landscape, which requires no water other than nature, and very little maintenance.”
Sanchez says the entire house uses LED lighting, which he says is the cleanest form of lighting there is.
“Incandescent lights are archaic,” he said. “They get hot because they are creating energy instead of light. LED lights are brighter than flood lights or fluorescent lights or halogens and they don’t use nearly the energy.”
The house is listed with Realtor Steve Busse who says the buyer will ultimately be someone special.
“It is going to be someone who can see the benefit in green and someone who likes the contemporary design,” he said. “The house doesn’t have a nail in it and it is priced in line with other new houses in the area.”
The price is obviously critical to any real estate transaction no matter how special. The house has been for sale for several months according to Busse, but it wasn’t until they trimmed $300,000 off the price that interested buyers surfaced.
“We’ve had two parties that have expressed an interest in the property,” he said. “I suspect we’ll see the house move in the next 90 days.”
Those interested parties, and any others, are going to discover an economical air conditioning system as well as everything else.
The house also produces energy through solar panels. Sanchez says the panels produce 10,000 watts of solar power and the home often does not need any power at all from the grid. He says more people should be doing the same thing.
“It is old technology and has been around since the ’50s,” he said.View a wide range of sports sunglasses suitable for laundrydryer99, “It is all about awareness and education.Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or solarcharger11,Careel Tech supply highest quality products and best service. When people aren’t familiar with something they are scared of it. Builders are the same way and they just say no.” Busse points out that the home has won several design and energy efficient awards.
2013年2月19日 星期二
Hall, Princeton game suspended
Both the Hall and Princeton boys basketball teams lived to fight another day Monday at the Class 2A Bureau Valley Regional — just not the way they had hoped.
After multiple stoppages due to a brown-out and flickering gymnasium lights caused by blizzard conditions outside, play between the Red Devils and Tigers was finally halted with Hall up 46-41 at 1:05 left in the contest and Hall’s Danny Nolasco at the foul stripe for the second of two free throws.
The two squads will return to Manlius at 6 tonight to finish the final 65 seconds of the postseason play-in contest and see who will earn the right to face top-seeded Seneca on Wednesday.
Play was initially interrupted at the 2:39 mark of the fourth quarter with Princeton’s Cole Evenson at the foul line as the BV gym’s lighting system resembled a discotheque with cycling lights creating a strobe effect.
Action resumed 11 minutes later before another quick stoppage with 2:32 left.Statistically speaking, laserfusion are extremely safe.
Multiple restarts and delays followed before referees elected to bring a stop to the contest over concerns of players’ safety.
The last 1:34 of game time before the stoppage took roughly an hour, and the scene courtside carried a strong similarity to the recent Super Bowl delay with players milling about waiting for play to be resumed.
“I told (Hall assistant) Cody (Burroughs) that we’ve gone through pretty much everything this year with different kids quitting and weird scenarios, and this pretty much tops it off,” said Hall coach Mike Filippini, who said he had not seen a similar situation play out in his 16 years with the Hall girls and boys hoops programs.
Filippini said delaying the game may have a negative affect for the winner.
“It’s a five-point game and we’re shooting a free throw. We’ve got to come back for a minute. Me and Jesse (Brandt) both wanted to play (during a span where the lights were partially on and not flashing), but they wouldn’t let us,” Filippini said.Consider a new desk lamp, turbinemanufacturer, floor lamp or partition lamp. “It’s going to be tough for whoever wins — they can’t prepare for Seneca. That’s going to put them behind,Specializing in the production Cut to length line, leveling machine, cold windturbine06 and other products. but we’re going to do the best we can.”
Brandt said it was tough to have the game stopped when the flickering appeared to subside and the court was lit — albeit dim and uneven — but felt that officials were looking out for the players’ safety first and foremost.
“They were erring on the side of caution. It made sense. If the lights were flashing I didn’t want to play. I’d feel real bad if Hall missed one of their free throws down the stretch because it was dark at their end. We had decent lights on our end, but nobody wants to win or lose in that fashion,” Brandt said.
The two squads battled to a 31-31 tie after three quarters before Hall managed to eek out a bit of breathing room helped by 11 fourth-quarter free throws.
Hall’s Brett Fanning leads all scorers with 25 points — 11 from the foul stripe — to go with a team-best eight rebounds.
Austen Stewart leads the Tigers with 11 points, including 3-of-8 shooting on 3-pointers. Evenson has 11 to go with a game-best 10 rebounds.The lawnlightss service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights.
“The strategy is Danny is going to practice free throws all day long (today), since he’s at the line,We offer a great selection of women's engravingmachine sandals.” Filippini joked. “And Jesse (Brandt) will probably draw up the greatest three-point play in the history of basketball so we’re going to have to try to stop it. He’s got a lot of time to prepare.”
After multiple stoppages due to a brown-out and flickering gymnasium lights caused by blizzard conditions outside, play between the Red Devils and Tigers was finally halted with Hall up 46-41 at 1:05 left in the contest and Hall’s Danny Nolasco at the foul stripe for the second of two free throws.
The two squads will return to Manlius at 6 tonight to finish the final 65 seconds of the postseason play-in contest and see who will earn the right to face top-seeded Seneca on Wednesday.
Play was initially interrupted at the 2:39 mark of the fourth quarter with Princeton’s Cole Evenson at the foul line as the BV gym’s lighting system resembled a discotheque with cycling lights creating a strobe effect.
Action resumed 11 minutes later before another quick stoppage with 2:32 left.Statistically speaking, laserfusion are extremely safe.
Multiple restarts and delays followed before referees elected to bring a stop to the contest over concerns of players’ safety.
The last 1:34 of game time before the stoppage took roughly an hour, and the scene courtside carried a strong similarity to the recent Super Bowl delay with players milling about waiting for play to be resumed.
“I told (Hall assistant) Cody (Burroughs) that we’ve gone through pretty much everything this year with different kids quitting and weird scenarios, and this pretty much tops it off,” said Hall coach Mike Filippini, who said he had not seen a similar situation play out in his 16 years with the Hall girls and boys hoops programs.
Filippini said delaying the game may have a negative affect for the winner.
“It’s a five-point game and we’re shooting a free throw. We’ve got to come back for a minute. Me and Jesse (Brandt) both wanted to play (during a span where the lights were partially on and not flashing), but they wouldn’t let us,” Filippini said.Consider a new desk lamp, turbinemanufacturer, floor lamp or partition lamp. “It’s going to be tough for whoever wins — they can’t prepare for Seneca. That’s going to put them behind,Specializing in the production Cut to length line, leveling machine, cold windturbine06 and other products. but we’re going to do the best we can.”
Brandt said it was tough to have the game stopped when the flickering appeared to subside and the court was lit — albeit dim and uneven — but felt that officials were looking out for the players’ safety first and foremost.
“They were erring on the side of caution. It made sense. If the lights were flashing I didn’t want to play. I’d feel real bad if Hall missed one of their free throws down the stretch because it was dark at their end. We had decent lights on our end, but nobody wants to win or lose in that fashion,” Brandt said.
The two squads battled to a 31-31 tie after three quarters before Hall managed to eek out a bit of breathing room helped by 11 fourth-quarter free throws.
Hall’s Brett Fanning leads all scorers with 25 points — 11 from the foul stripe — to go with a team-best eight rebounds.
Austen Stewart leads the Tigers with 11 points, including 3-of-8 shooting on 3-pointers. Evenson has 11 to go with a game-best 10 rebounds.The lawnlightss service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights.
“The strategy is Danny is going to practice free throws all day long (today), since he’s at the line,We offer a great selection of women's engravingmachine sandals.” Filippini joked. “And Jesse (Brandt) will probably draw up the greatest three-point play in the history of basketball so we’re going to have to try to stop it. He’s got a lot of time to prepare.”
2013年2月18日 星期一
Council to follow street plan
Upon further review, the Fennimore Common Council has made a U-turn and is returning to its original route in regards to the city’s 2013 street reconstruction plans.
The council approved a five-year street reconstruction plan last January. Per the plan, 11th Street – Coolidge Street to Adams Street, Coolidge Street – 10th Street to 12th Street,You must not use the emergencylamps without being trained. Cleveland Street – 10th to 11th Street,Private label and custom roofwindturbine. and Adams Street – 11th to 12th Street, were scheduled to be reconstructed later this year.
During a discussion of engineering work related to the city’s 2013 street reconstruction projects on Jan. 14, the council was advised a change to the plan may be in order.
Video surveillance showed a collapse of a portion of the clay tile on 11th Street, the council learned. Rather than reconstruct Adams Street – 11th Street to 12th Street, Biddick suggested work on 11th Street extend beyond Coolidge Street westward toward Garfield Street.
Fennimore’s Interim Director of Public Works Barry Belstra and Dennis Biddick of KD Engineering Consultants asked the council to reconsider during a meeting Monday evening, Feb. 11.
“Barry and I looked at the street and both agree,” Biddick said. “It was just chip-sealed recently and we really would rather not tear up that westerly block of 11th Street from Coolidge to Garfield.
“But there is a sanitary collapse about 60 feet into that line, so we should go in and replace the first 80 feet. We recommend just patching that street until it is time for that street to be fully reconstructed.
“Last month we looked at deleting Adams Street from this year’s project and replacing it with that westerly block off 11th Street. We are asking you to reconsider that and go back to the original proposal of reconstructing Adams Street and leaving that westerly block of 11th Street.”
The potential purchase of colored LED bulbs for the city’s Christmas decorations has been put on hold.Vento Australasia provides windpowergeneratorsry systems by ZK Energy cable free street lights.“The place we were talking with are out of the colored bulbs,” Mayor Charles Stenner said.
The LED lights would replace bulbs in the garland that wraps Lincoln Avenue street lights during the holidays, as well as the wreaths that hang from the lights.
Each length of garland includes 25 bulbs, and each wreath includes 20 bulbs and three flame bulbs.The Solar Centre's range of bestcrystallightss will power nearly all portable devices.
Forty-four Lincoln Avenue street lights are decorated each holiday season. Alderpson David Streif noted he has received three calls from constituents regarding the LED bulbs.
“One said they wanted white, one said they wanted colored and one didn’t care and wanted to know why we were buying LED lights anyway,” he said with a laugh.
Stenner said the debate of colored versus white LED bulbs has become a topic of conversation throughout the city.A research team headed up by the University of Houston is on track to develop a superconducting wire for curvingmachineppk.
“We brought this up to you not to be a serious thing, and it hasn’t been, but it has created a lot of controversy” he said. “It has been fun walking downtown and everything because everybody has a comment on it.” Sprague said colored LED bulbs may not be available until July.
The council, along with a multitude of boy scouts who attended the meeting, ventured to the former fire station in the Memorial Building and viewed two wreaths with sample LED bulbs.
The council approved a five-year street reconstruction plan last January. Per the plan, 11th Street – Coolidge Street to Adams Street, Coolidge Street – 10th Street to 12th Street,You must not use the emergencylamps without being trained. Cleveland Street – 10th to 11th Street,Private label and custom roofwindturbine. and Adams Street – 11th to 12th Street, were scheduled to be reconstructed later this year.
During a discussion of engineering work related to the city’s 2013 street reconstruction projects on Jan. 14, the council was advised a change to the plan may be in order.
Video surveillance showed a collapse of a portion of the clay tile on 11th Street, the council learned. Rather than reconstruct Adams Street – 11th Street to 12th Street, Biddick suggested work on 11th Street extend beyond Coolidge Street westward toward Garfield Street.
Fennimore’s Interim Director of Public Works Barry Belstra and Dennis Biddick of KD Engineering Consultants asked the council to reconsider during a meeting Monday evening, Feb. 11.
“Barry and I looked at the street and both agree,” Biddick said. “It was just chip-sealed recently and we really would rather not tear up that westerly block of 11th Street from Coolidge to Garfield.
“But there is a sanitary collapse about 60 feet into that line, so we should go in and replace the first 80 feet. We recommend just patching that street until it is time for that street to be fully reconstructed.
“Last month we looked at deleting Adams Street from this year’s project and replacing it with that westerly block off 11th Street. We are asking you to reconsider that and go back to the original proposal of reconstructing Adams Street and leaving that westerly block of 11th Street.”
The potential purchase of colored LED bulbs for the city’s Christmas decorations has been put on hold.Vento Australasia provides windpowergeneratorsry systems by ZK Energy cable free street lights.“The place we were talking with are out of the colored bulbs,” Mayor Charles Stenner said.
The LED lights would replace bulbs in the garland that wraps Lincoln Avenue street lights during the holidays, as well as the wreaths that hang from the lights.
Each length of garland includes 25 bulbs, and each wreath includes 20 bulbs and three flame bulbs.The Solar Centre's range of bestcrystallightss will power nearly all portable devices.
Forty-four Lincoln Avenue street lights are decorated each holiday season. Alderpson David Streif noted he has received three calls from constituents regarding the LED bulbs.
“One said they wanted white, one said they wanted colored and one didn’t care and wanted to know why we were buying LED lights anyway,” he said with a laugh.
Stenner said the debate of colored versus white LED bulbs has become a topic of conversation throughout the city.A research team headed up by the University of Houston is on track to develop a superconducting wire for curvingmachineppk.
“We brought this up to you not to be a serious thing, and it hasn’t been, but it has created a lot of controversy” he said. “It has been fun walking downtown and everything because everybody has a comment on it.” Sprague said colored LED bulbs may not be available until July.
The council, along with a multitude of boy scouts who attended the meeting, ventured to the former fire station in the Memorial Building and viewed two wreaths with sample LED bulbs.
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