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Free custom energy audits for large homes

Original post made on Dec 26, 2009

Acterra, the Palo Alto-based environmental nonprofit, is preparing to offer free residential energy audits to cut electricity waste in high-end homes in five upper-income communities in the Bay Area, including Atherton, Woodside and Portola Valley.

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Posted by 50 year midtown resident
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Dec 26, 2009 at 10:38 am

We used a local company named GreenQuest home solutions. They came in and did a free inspection of multiple points in our home. They discovered unsealed doors and windows, cracked forced air heat in our crawl space and no insulation below our floors. They repaired and updated our system to operate more efficiently. We would recomend GreenQuest to anyone that has questions about their homes utility use and health. The HomeHealth checkup was great!
While Actera does a good job with analysis, they are not general contractors like GreenQuest.


Posted by Giuseppe Verde
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Dec 28, 2009 at 11:16 am

The benefit to a having a non-contractor do your audit should be obvious -- they've got no financial incentive driving their recommendations.


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