Q. Recently my home was given a free home energy audit in which a number of energy saving fixtures were added to my home. I understand the obvious ways in which this saves money for me, the end user, but I'm struggling to understand how this saves money for the utilities. In the end, I'm paying them less as a result. Someone please help me understand their business model?
A. Our government believes that it's very very difficult by now to think that the building of more electric generating plants (to c reat e more electricity) is very "worth it" any more, if we can avoid it somehow such as by conserving electricity in various ways to use and need less or at least no "more"
The reasons experts think this, is various things, such as too much unhealthful pollution already from existing power plants, and also other problems like, finding places to put them (putting them way off into vacant land many many miles from anywhere, isn't too good a way because during the transmitting of the power over electrical lines over long distances, a great deal of the electricity gets lost sort of up into the air, I guess, before it reaches the users). And too much fuel use to run the plants.
Therefore, some of our governments or their agencies, are offering a business offer to many of the power plant companies, saying to them: Convince or help your customers to somehow use less energy at home per person or per household, and we'll give you money benefits for doing so. Those money benefits are probably reductions in how much taxes the companies have to pay on their profits (yes, companies ,like people, pay some taxes, on things like income. The reasoning for that, is partly that companies benefit greatly from things they need that the government provides: roads, fire protection, security like police protection, and many other things, and they tend to cost a lot of money, so all those benefiting, including companies have to pay taxes to help pay for everything.).
Also , probably the percentage of profit c ompanies get from selling electricity, is or would be higher from existing plants , than from new ones because of how expensive new ones are to build. So, even separate from getting their taxes lowered by not building new plants, they benefit probably separately by getting electricity conserved by things like energy audits: because if they can conserve electricity and tend to have the existing plants be enough for the needs, they profit more because of more profits resulting from existing plants compared to new ones.
The reasons experts think this, is various things, such as too much unhealthful pollution already from existing power plants, and also other problems like, finding places to put them (putting them way off into vacant land many many miles from anywhere, isn't too good a way because during the transmitting of the power over electrical lines over long distances, a great deal of the electricity gets lost sort of up into the air, I guess, before it reaches the users). And too much fuel use to run the plants.
Therefore, some of our governments or their agencies, are offering a business offer to many of the power plant companies, saying to them: Convince or help your customers to somehow use less energy at home per person or per household, and we'll give you money benefits for doing so. Those money benefits are probably reductions in how much taxes the companies have to pay on their profits (yes, companies ,like people, pay some taxes, on things like income. The reasoning for that, is partly that companies benefit greatly from things they need that the government provides: roads, fire protection, security like police protection, and many other things, and they tend to cost a lot of money, so all those benefiting, including companies have to pay taxes to help pay for everything.).
Also , probably the percentage of profit c ompanies get from selling electricity, is or would be higher from existing plants , than from new ones because of how expensive new ones are to build. So, even separate from getting their taxes lowered by not building new plants, they benefit probably separately by getting electricity conserved by things like energy audits: because if they can conserve electricity and tend to have the existing plants be enough for the needs, they profit more because of more profits resulting from existing plants compared to new ones.
How do I become a home energy auditor?
Q. I think there will be a lot of future demand for home energy audits as energy costs continue to rise. How do I get certified to conduct home energy audits?
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Can anyone tell me about Home Energy Auditor courses online?
Q. My husband wants to become a certified home energy auditor. We checked online and there are several courses. Can someone tell us who is reputable and offers an online course?
A. I think he's making a good choice.We've known for years that we need to cut energy usage where ever we can.I've written some articles about saving energy and you can read them here:
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dave_Stefko
Now the government is giving us incentives like the tax credits for renewable energy.Some states are giving credits and/or rebates. We also have them for energy saving devices.I personally think we will see a growing need for Certified Home Energy Auditors.
. There are several online schools, but what you want is one that offers certification. Check out the resource box for a link to a great site.
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dave_Stefko
Now the government is giving us incentives like the tax credits for renewable energy.Some states are giving credits and/or rebates. We also have them for energy saving devices.I personally think we will see a growing need for Certified Home Energy Auditors.
. There are several online schools, but what you want is one that offers certification. Check out the resource box for a link to a great site.
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