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Ninja Tip 4: Don't Use Electric Heat Lamps as a Heating Substitute for the Furnace. At my workplace, we spent more money on electricity from heat lamps than on the gas we were saving by turning the thermostat down.  If we had just left the furnace at a...

Ninja tip 3: Do not close vents and registers in unused rooms. It does not save energy. When an energy ninja closes vents, the pressure in the ductwork system increases and the system needs to work harder to keep up the temperature. A harder working system is a higher...

What energy ninjas need to know to be less noticed. No one messes with the energy Ninja! I once worked with a colleague who was serious about energy savings. He was a thermostat ninja! Hot summers and cold winters both outside and inside the office. My office was so...

What energy ninjas need to know to be less noticed. No one messes with the energy Ninja! I once worked with a colleague who was serious about energy savings. He was a thermostat ninja! Hot summers and cold winters both outside and inside the office. My office was so...

Albertans have low utility prices due to both deregulation (see Deregulation blog post) and its rich natural resources. Here we will address how Alberta's rich resources lower our utility prices. Canada is the world’s 3rd largest producer of natural gas, and 75-80% of...

In January 2017, the Government of Alberta effected a door-to-door sales ban on energy related products and services due to hundreds of Albertans complaining of salespeople misrepresenting themselves as Government of Alberta members in order to aggressively sell HVAC...

  Albertans pay some of the lowest energy prices for their homes and businesses in North America. Why? Deregulation… that’s why. Deregulation is among the most confusing topics to take on. It’s like trying to understand chemistry or the tax...

It makes sense that the more electricity and natural gas you consume, the higher your utility bill is, but why do the actual price of the gas and electricity jump around so much? On one hand, the 'pay for what I use' principle is very simple: The more I use - the...