You Must Get a Home Energy Assessment

By Daniel Gross

Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 - 1:48pm

from SlateSlate's Daniel Gross is well on his way in his quest to achieve a more energy efficient life. His latest installment in "The Efficient Life," discusses his surprising experience with a home energy assessment. He writes:

I was skeptical of the claims that a bit of caulking here and there could make a difference in my home's energy use—partly because I'm a skeptical guy and partly because I'm largely ignorant about home improvement. And so when I signed up for a home energy assessment through my electricity provider, Connecticut Light & Power, I wasn't expecting much. A couple of days later, New England Smart Energy Group, a local company, contacted me to schedule the assessment. The cost: $75.

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Daniel Gross is the Moneybox columnist for Slate and the business columnist for Newsweek. He is the author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation.

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