Cheap Electricity Bills Thanks to Green Technology

A Lenoir, TN resident may average somewhere around 41 cents per day for powering her home, but who's counting pennies? And scene...

A Habitat for Humanity initiative that is part of a research project by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Tennessee Valley Authority retrofitted 5 residential homes in Lenoir with energy-saving technology. The goal? The ORNL supports a Department of Energy initiative to develop energy-efficient homes, much like what is currently part of the Lenoir research project, that are essential energy neutral—meaning the days of homes burning up 40% of the country's energy could become a distant part of the past.

So rather than focusing solely on replacing fossil fuels, a difficult and mind-numbingly long transition process, research much like the ONRL and Lenoir have managed to apply on a small scale what could grow into a viable national solution for reducing energy consumption. A solution that could have drastic short term affects on the nation's energy demand and outrageous expenses for most Americans. Here is the Department of Energy article if you are interested in more details.