Green Built Texas homes are designed to be at least 17 percent more energy-efficient than a home built to code. Contact your builder for specific features included in your home.
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| While buildings are often cited as accounting for about 40% of U.S. energy consumption; new homes, built after 1991, only account for 2.5% of this. Half of that electricity is lost in the grid and never makes it to the home!
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| More than 60% of consumers say they are willing to pay more for green features even in a down market.
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| Federal tax credits are available for many types of home improvements including adding insulation, replacement windows, and certain high efficiency heating and cooling equipment. Visit, www.energystar.gov for more information.
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| For the first time in history, most consumers do their new home shopping on the internet.
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| According to ENERGY STAR, a programmable thermostat could save up to $150 per year on utility bills.
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| If every U.S. household replaced just one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb, it would save enough energy to light about 3 million homes for a year and save more than $650 million in annual energy costs.
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| Replacing four 75-watt incandescent bulbs with 23-watt compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs can save you more than 2000 kWh and $190 over the life of the bulbs.
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| Running a faucet for five minutes uses as much energy as burning a 60-watt bulb for 14 hours.
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| A hot water faucet leaking one drop per second can add up to 165 gallons a month-more than one person uses in two weeks.
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| Dishwashers use six gallons less water than dishes washed by hand, that adds up to more than 2,000 gallons per year.
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| Opening refrigerator doors allows 3% of the cold air to escape.
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| In Texas as much as 60% of the home’s total water use is devoted to outdoor irrigation. Coupled with drought-tolerant landscaping, rainwater harvesting can supply most, if not all, of the water needed for outdoor irrigation.
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| A showerhead that uses less than 2.5 gallons of water per minute or less can save a family of four as much as 3,000 gallons of water each month. The annual savings in energy and water costs could exceed $300.
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| Properly shading windows to reduce solar heat gain can save more than $150 in home energy costs annually.
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Reducing air leakage in ducts by using mastic can save as much as $200 in annual home energy costs.
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