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Have you done any Energy Efficient upgrades or installations in your home this year? Are you planning on doing any in 2010? Well if you have or are going to, take a look at the government’s Energy Star webpage! Your improvement may be worth up to $1,500 in tax credits.

 

Some examples would be windows and doors, insulation, wood or other biomass burning stoves and inserts. The improvement must meet certain criteria, so log on to the website and see how to save yourself some money, save energy and most importantly, cut down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

 

Find out more at energystar.com

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In addition to the tremendous savings potential for consumers and businesses, the report, by the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company, finds that elevating energy efficiency to a national priority could also spur the creation of 600,000-900,000 long-term green jobs and reduce our overall energy consumption by 23 percent.

Energy efficiency is an enormous (and enormously cheap) energy resource for the U.S., “but only if the nation can craft a comprehensive and innovative approach to unlock it.”

The investment, according to the report’s authors, would be about $522 billion over the next ten years, not including program implementation. But an investment of that scale could slash energy consumption in 2020 by 9.1 quadrillion BTUs, or 23% of projected demand, potentially avoiding up to 1.1 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

This article can be found on Celsias.com