Home Energy Saving

You're probably familiar with some of the federal government's incentives for home energy efficiency -- heftier tax credits for solar panels, solar water heaters, geothermal heat pumps, heavy-duty insulation, windows, air conditioning and the like. But...

The effort to revive a home energy efficiency financing program that stalled this summer has a new recruit: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. This week he signed a law that will help route more funding to the Property Assessed Clean Energy program......

Naperville residents looking to save money on utility bills through more can again apply for help through the city. Naperville’s Home Energy Savings Program will …...

IKEA announced it will no longer stock or sell incandescent light bulbs, effective Tuesday. The world's largest retailer of home furnishings says it is the first major retailer to stop selling incandescents. "IKEA is committed to integrating sustainable...

Los Angeles-based homebuilder KB Home is taking a page from the car industry by slapping an efficiency label on all its new properties. Like automakers, who are rolling out a legion of electric and hybrid vehicles, residential construction companies are.....

Southern California’s housing market kicked off 2011 with a slump. Sales were at their worst level for a January in three years and prices also dipped. The price declines, which were steepest in the Inland Empire, were driven by a......

The forum was a think tank, one of Washington's oldest, the Brookings Institution. The topic was jobs, the stubborn unemployment numbers that have made the nascent economic recovery bittersweet. President Obama's idea? Use the savings from cheaper...

Federal regulators have essentially put the kibosh on nationwide lending programs linked to home energy efficiency retrofits, encouraging state and local governments to rethink “significant safety and soundness concerns.� In a statement Tuesday, the...

A week after federal regulators blocked financing programs for home energy efficiency retrofits around the country, California officials are using different tactics to try to change their minds. Some, like state utility officials, have sent pleading...

The dog days of summer are upon us, and temperatures have risen above the century mark and don't seem to want to drop. It looks like a lot of us are going to be shocked when we open our electric bills next month. Here are a few things you can do around...

For Southern Californians trying to save water and reduce their use of energy, a pool may seem like the biggest unnecessary luxury around. But with about 500,000 pools in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties combined -- the largest concentration of...

Gayle Anderson was live in San Dimas at RAGING WATERS with SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON with information to HELP WITH THE HEAT! Some easy ways to save, according to Southern California Edison include: · Line it up: When you line-dry your laundry, clothing...