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- Is your home taking a toll on your health?
- A guide to water heaters
- Top gift ideas for the energy saver in your life
- Electric vehicles: your top questions answered
- 3 easy ways to save money at your business
- A guide to home heating systems
- Keeping cool with heat pumps
- Who knew? 8 ways NOT to use a heat pump
- The best ways to save energy on your farm
- Winter tips to stay warm and save energy
- Save on heating with these four steps
- How to control moisture in your home or business
- The best way to spend less on commercial refrigeration
- Assessing your energy use in three steps
- How to choose and install storm windows
- Is a heat pump heating & cooling system right for you?
- Lighting Tips: How Small Businesses can Save Energy
- How to prepare for an energy assessment
- Home buying with efficiency in mind
- When to repair or replace your windows
- How to lower your monthly electricity costs
- Invest in energy upgrades to avoid losing money
- How to choose the best quality LED bulb
- The case for air sealing
- How to fix a wet, damp, or leaky basement
- Video: How to insulate your basement
- Video: How to insulate your attic
- Video: How to air-seal your home
- Water heater buying guide
- Video: LED lighting for your home
- How to finance your business’s energy-saving project
- Summer guide to energy savings & comfort
- Lighting tips for fall and winter
- How to defeat the summer peak
- How to avoid hiring the wrong contractor
- The renter’s guide to energy savings
- How to deal with hazardous building materials
- How to make your home net zero
- Top 3 reasons to get a home energy monitor
- A homeowner’s buying guide to insulation
- Should you switch to wood pellet heating?
- Make the most of variable frequency drives
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Questions Answers
- Should I use spray polyurethane foam insulation?
- What is solar heat gain?
- What is the Efficiency Excellence Network (EEN)?
- What is a cash flow analysis?
- What is an energy savings account?
- Why ENERGY STAR<sup>®</sup> Certified Lighting Products?
- What does R-value mean?
- What is a BPI-certified contractor?
- What does Low-E mean?
- Where can I dispose of my old fridge?
- Where can I recycle my old electronics?
- What is the Energy Efficiency Charge on my bill?
- What is the best way to dispose of CFLs?
- How are solar thermal and solar power different?
- What is the DesignLights Consortium™?
- What does the Smart Choice label mean?
- What is a building envelope or thermal shell?
- What is phantom load?
- What are EER and SEER?
- Is ENERGY STAR<sup>®</sup> LED Better Than Regular LED?
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- Can Energy Efficiency Serve Vermont Downtowns?
- How one Vermonter found herself on the path to net zero
- How do we help Vermonters with ‘Affordable Energy’?
- Modernizing Energy Efficiency
- Keeping beer cold without warming the planet
- Publyk House reduces costs and saves energy with energy retrofit
- 10 Ways NOT to Save Energy this Winter, and what to do instead!
- Vermont communities save big with local solutions
- Buttoning Up has never been more affordable
- What is the impact of energy burden in Vermont?
- Net Zero by 2030: A Conversation with Architects Eric Corey Freed and Bill Maclay
- Weatherization gets a shot in the arm
- Don’t leave money on the table for weatherization
- How efficiency’s best makes its way to Vermont
- Electricity on ice: Rethinking energy savings and storage
- Better Buildings by Design 2017
- Energy Efficiency Unlocks Climate Change Solutions
- Habitat for Humanity: Champions of Efficient Housing
- How VT Electric Savings Fund Heating Efficiency
- Moving Business Forward: Energy Efficiency
- Natural Refrigerants are Coming to Vermont
- Partnering for Energy Innovation: Remote Audits
- Vermont Dairy Processing Facilities Save & Grow
- Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Tap Energy Savings
- Where The Savings Are: Serving Customer Priorities
- Clean energy goals: It’s up to us
- How Vermont beer makers brew up savings
- Here’s to helping Vermont brewers save money
- Cannabis: A budding opportunity for energy savings
- Innovation watch: About Energy Savings Accounts
- Reaching out to Button Up
- Maple High Brix yields sweet success for sugarers
- Lowering Vermont’s cost for energy efficiency savings
- Energy Justice for All Vermonters
- Can a smart home save energy?
- New Leadership, Continued Commitment to Results
- Keeping Vermont’s Efficiency Standards High
- Partnership delivers energy saving results
- Energy efficiency has its day(s)
- Button Up Day: A success from Glover to Brattleboro
- Efficiency in the Sugar House
- A look at the valuable investment of energy efficiency
- Home Energy Reports: helping Vermonters save
- Working together to tackle fuel poverty in Vermont
- A rock-solid partnership with a granite manufacturer
- A small experiment with big results
- What is big data and why is it important?
- Electric vehicle basics from Drive Electric Vermont
- Can new storm windows save you money?
- Comfort and joy: five energy saving holiday gift ideas
- Going to the DOGS
- How better buildings can help fight climate change
- Buyer beware: Not all LEDs are created equal
- A new energy in Rutland
- Vermont Home Energy Challenge: celebrating success
- A journey to Passive House in Vermont
- The path to zero energy homes
- Can Vermonters afford (not) to go net zero?
- Net Zero by 2030: Eric Corey Freed & Bill Maclay Pt.2
- 2014 results: One town’s energy savings
- The whole-house perspective
- Bottling up savings: a Vermont hard cider story
- Cap, trade, and reinvest: RGGI in Vermont
- Cutting Vermont’s net energy costs by $80M in 2014
- Learning how to Button Up
- Nest thermostat: thermal intelligence for your home
- Beat The Summer Heat: VT Peak Demand Management
- Energy efficiency: Saving $279 M. for New England
- From Cow to Creemee: A Story of Energy Efficiency
- Giving Thanks: Energy Efficiency & Farm to Plate
- Helping VT’s Big Energy Users Save & Still Compete
- Vermonters Reduce Heating Costs with Better Design
- Mission Possible: $336.3M in energy savings
- From Cow to Creemee Pt. 2: A Story of Efficiency
- Peaks & Valleys: New Landscape of Electricity | Efficiency Vermont
- Saving Some (cookie) Dough: Ice Cream Factory
- Cost Effective, Healthy & Energy Efficient Schools
- St. Albans: Energy Savings & Statewide Benefits
- The Future of Sustainable Energy-Conscious Thinking
- Husky Injection Molding Systems Cuts Energy Use
- Vermont Community Partnerships & Energy Savings
- Affordable Clean Heat: 2014 VT Legislative Summary
- Charting the Course: Green Mtn. State Efficiency
- Vermont schools at the top of the class
- Healthier hospitals, for a healthier Vermont
- The mobile home of tomorrow: Vermont leads the way
- Vermont legislative preview
- Button Up Day of action wrap up
- Energy independence: what does it really mean?
- What is Efficiency Vermont?
- Vermont businesses lead the way to energy savings
- Vermont legislative recap-2013
- Paying it forward: energy efficiency in New England
- What does green look like?
- Looking out for our neighbors this winter
- How energy and information add up
- Powered by efficiency
- Better Buildings by Design 2015 conference highlights
- What to expect at Better Buildings by Design 2015
- Beyond buildings: energy efficiency on the go
- Sharing the love, one light at a time
- After Irene: looking back and moving forward
- Women in energy: a conversation with Tiffany Bluemle
- Can Vermont businesses cut their energy use in half?
- An MPG rating for your home
- The Vermont Home Energy Score: a label that matters
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Whitepapers
- Peak Response Program: 2018-2019 Demand Response Capability Initiative
- What Are the Limits of AMI in Supporting Load Management?
- Healthy Homes Vermont 2018
- Assessment of Demand Response Capability and Effectiveness
- Keep It Cool: Real-time Monitoring of Convenience Store Refrigeration Systems
- Vermont’s Total Energy Burden by Town
- Breathe Well, Sleep Well: Cold-Climate Ventilation
- Low-E & Behold: Low-E Storm Window Solution
- The Benefits of Home Performance w/ ENERGY STAR
- The Value of Efficiency: Renewable Ramp Challenge
- Electric bikes: survey and energy efficiency analysis
- Paying energy arrearages through savings
- Mapping total energy burden in Vermont
- Smart lighting & smart hub DIY install: does it yield?
- Electric transit bus demonstration project
- Energy Improvement Brings Efficiency to Next Level
- Efficiency Vermont's ENERGY STAR Program Report
- Finding Big Savings: The Value of Energy Efficiency
- Home Energy Reports: Providing Low-Cost Savings
- The Barriers to Home Energy Efficiency Improvements
- Are thermostats the new energy audits?
- Net zero energy feasibility study
- Electric vehicles as grid resources in ISO-NE and Vermont
- The once and future CFL
- A new dawn in efficient lighting
- The Vermont Home Energy Challenge final report
- Individual and community engagement
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- Ben & Jerry’s saves $89k annually on efficiency improvements at St. Albans plant
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- King Arthur Flour's Efficient Expansion Saves $27k
- LED Stage Lights Save Paramount Theater $11k per year
- Northshire Brewery Energy Upgrades Save $12k/Year
- Okemo Resort Chairlift Project Sees Fast ROI
- Swift House Inn Lowers Costs with Heating Controls
- Bennington Home reduces utility bills
- Kitchen Fan Updates Save Woodstock Inn $15k
- Higher Ground tunes into lighting for savings
- Jolley saves with LED lighting, beer caves
- VT Hard Cider finds the sweet side of lighting design
- Tenant and owner find mutual benefits in efficiency
- The Murphey home is energy efficient and eco-friendly
- Upgrades save Cuttingsville couple $150 monthly
- From one-room schoolhouse to energy-saving home
- Upper Valley energy success goes statewide
- Adams North Barre Granite carves out $58,000 in annual energy savings
- Blue Seal Doubles Down on Energy Savings
- BIA expands and saves $147,000 annually
- Casella Waste Systems energy efficiency
- Bennington College Circulator pump saves
- Commonwealth Dairy saves $138k in energy costs
- Ray’s Market cutting edge energy savings
- Efficient modular home saves on energy
- Financing saves Copeland Furniture $10K
- Habitat for Humanity energy savings
- Jericho Settlers Farm solar power
- Efficiency Upgrades Save Lisai’s Market $11k
- The Powers Family Lowers Their Energy Bills
- Orleans County Energy Upgrades Save $6k/Year
- Efficient Design Saves Shelburne Museum Energy
- Low-Carbon Fuel Keeps Hardwick Family Warm
- Trapp Family Lodge Saves Energy, Traditions
- U-Mall Saves with Parking Garage LED's
- 14th Star Brewery toasts to $230,000 in savings
- Champlain Orchards grows energy savings by $35,000
- Twiggs Gastropub takes a $2K bite out of bills
- Keurig Saving $725K, Annually