Conservation Pros, Asheville and all of Western North Carolina

Call in the Pros… The Conservation Pros!

Conservation Pros were featured on the local news, here in Asheville.  Apparently, the producers heard that more and more homeowners were looking to stay in their existing home and make the necessary improvements to upgrade its energy efficiency, safety and durability.

What’s the difference?

What is the difference between energy efficiency and energy conservation?

Imagine you’re in your living room, fretting about the cost of heating your home. If you should decide to turn down the thermostat, sacrificing a little comfort for energy savings, that would be energy conservation. If you decided, however, to air-seal and weatherstrip your home, maybe even replacement windows and added insulation, leaving the thermostat where it is, that would be energy efficiency.

Ultimately, no matter the approach, they both result in energy savings, money savings and increased comfort. And that’s conservation.

Whatever your goals happen to be, Conservation Pros are the energy conservation specialists for homes and businesses in Asheville, NC and the surrounding area.

Time Magazine touting energy efficiency

The time for energy efficiency to hit the mainstream has come.

An excerpt from an article in December’s Time Magazine:

This may sound too good to be true, but the U.S. has a renewable-energy resource that is perfectly clean, remarkably cheap, surprisingly abundant and immediately available. It has astounding potential to reduce the carbon emissions that threaten our planet, the dependence on foreign oil that threatens our security and the energy costs that threaten our wallets. Unlike coal and petroleum, it doesn’t pollute; unlike solar and wind, it doesn’t depend on the weather; unlike ethanol, it doesn’t accelerate deforestation or inflate food prices; unlike nuclear plants, it doesn’t raise uncomfortable questions about meltdowns or terrorist attacks or radioactive-waste storage, and it doesn’t take a decade to build. It isn’t what-if like hydrogen, clean coal and tidal power; it’s already proven to be workable, scalable and cost-effective. And we don’t need to import it.

This miracle juice goes by the distinctly boring name of energy efficiency, and it’s often ignored in the hubbub over alternative fuels, the nuclear renaissance, T. Boone Pickens and the green-tech economy. Clearly, it needs an agent. But it’s a simple concept: wasting less energy. Or more precisely, consuming less energy to get the same amount of heat for your shower, light for your office and power for your factory. It turns out to be much less expensive, destructive and time-intensive to reduce demand through efficiency than to increase supply through new drilling or new power plants. A nationwide push to save "negawatts" instead of building more megawatts could help reverse our unsustainable increases in energy-hogging and carbon-spewing while creating a slew of jobs and saving a load of cash.

Read the full article here.