Home Energy Audit - How To Do It

The purpose of a home energy audit is to find sources of energy waste in the home, however small, and reduce or eliminate them. The process begins with taking an accurate home energy survey of each circuit in your circuit breaker panel. The more accurate the survey, the greater the opportunity to find savings.

Here are the main steps:

1. Make a list of all circuit breakers in the main panel to your home.

2. Download our FREE Power Panel Profiler and enter the list of circuit breakers from your main panel.

3. Identify the electrical load on each breaker and enter it into the Profiler using one or more of the following techniques:
a. Single point metering
b. Net metering 
c. Sub-metering
d. Load profiling
e. Placard power ratings

4. Measure or estimate the daily run time for the load on each circuit and enter it accordingly.

5. Enter the cost per kilowatt-hour from your electric bill.

6. As you make improvements to your home energy use, enter changes into a second copy of the Profiler.  Compare usage and cost with your original baseline and watch the savings mount up.

You will need to have Microsoft Excel installed on your computer to run this program. Detailed instructions are available by clicking here and are are also included in the software.

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