energy savings
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Energy Efficiency and Mortgages
Anybody that has ever applied for a mortgage knows about the “debt to service ratio”. It’s a calculation that determines whether you can afford make your mortgage payments based on the total cost of building ownership (tcbo). A lower tcbo means that you can afford to spend more on your mortgage. As a potential homeowner,…
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What would you like to do?
Insulation always gives you a return on investment and that return increases as energy costs increase. Money spent on mechanical heating/cooling equipment is guaranteed to cost you money and keeps costing you more and more money as the cost of energy increases and the cost of repairs increase until it completely breaks down, then you…
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Why Geo Thermal?
The Rant for today is directed at Manitoba Hydro and the Manitoba government. What is the objective of the cash grant and hydro loan for geo thermal systems? Why single out geo thermal when there are better solutions. Is it to reduce energy consumption? Is it to subsidize the HVAC industry? What difference does it…