In this article, Paul Raymer joins CustomHomeOnline.com to speak about the information available about energy efficiency and the people providing it. The topics range from the Passive House concept, which began in the ‘70’s with Passive Solar Homes, whose technology and experience laid the foundation for modern implementation, to the Beadwall window from Zomeworks which […]

Since 2002, the US Department of Energy has run a competition called the solar decathlon. There are many rules for entries; however, the goal of the competition is student training and public education about clean-energy products and design, and its affordability. This past year, Appalachian State University’s entry, the “Solar Homestead” won the people’s choice […]

Since the 1970’s, one of the few predictable things about fuel costs is that they will fluctuate wildly. This can be driven by political unrest, big swings in demand and consumption, both real and perceived demand, and various other things as the world grows ever more interconnected. Regulated energy, such as electricity, tends to be […]

According to a survey performed by Near Zero, a nonprofit energy research organization,  the prices of solar modules, which are the parts of solar panels that produce the electricity, will continue to follow a downward trend that has been set since 1980. In order for the price to continue to drop, however, solar panel research […]