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• 3 Homes Put Energy Ideas to the Test
• 7/21/2010

• By Tracy Idell Hamilton -  Express-News
  
  Editor's note: This story originally appeared Sunday, July 11, exclusively in the print edition of the San Antonio Express-News.
  
  CPS Energy has taken a peek inside the future of homebuilding — and so far, it likes what it sees.
  
  The utility’s engineers are analyzing energy-use data from dozens of high-tech monitors at three homes with identical floor plans in Northwest San Antonio that were built last year to varying degrees of energy efficiency.
  
  The U.S. Energy Department also is keeping an eye on the comparison as part of its larger effort to encourage cost-effective energy-efficient building technologies.
  
  While the study is a little more than halfway complete, the homes already have yielded information that will benefit local customers. CPS is offering a new rebate for spray-foam insulation, which the study found saved more energy than expected because it seals a home’s “thermal envelope,” unlike fiberglass. more...

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