Here's the link, but it will go dead in a week. So here is the meat of the piece: "Byron Harris, consumer advocate of the Public Service Commission, says federal figures rank West Virginia home power usage as 12th-highest in America. The reason, apparently, is that more Mountain State homes are aging, with poor insulation and drafty windows -- letting costly heat escape in winter and failing to block muggy warmth in summer. Many lack cost-cutting heat pumps. Older appliances and incandescent lightbulbs also waste power. In California, where energy-efficiency efforts are intense, the average home uses a mere 562 kwh per month, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Two Kanawha Valley activists, Mike Harman and Cathy Kunkel, told a Charleston church group this week that preventing energy waste could save West Virginians millions in utility bills and reduce the need to build more power plants." And: "A crusading group named Energy Efficient West Virginia has created a website to push the war on waste. It can be found at www.eewv.org. A couple of years ago, the federal stimulus program gave West Virginia $37 million to weatherize low-income homes. In the coming 60-day session, the Legislature should expand the struggle by passing stronger energy codes and prodding utilities to increase efforts against loss. Wasting money is senseless. Saving is wise. Energy is too valuable to be squandered needlessly." CommentsLeave a Reply | "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power. I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
-- Thomas Edison Authors  Bill Howley blogs here at The Coalition for Reliable Power and at The Power Line, the View from Calhoun County about energy policy issues. Keryn Newman blogs here at The Coalition for Reliable Power and at StopPATH WV about energy issues and corporate spin.
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