{"id":2550,"date":"2020-10-10T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T12:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:54:16","slug":"day-3-how-much-energy-by-type-does-the-average-nj-household-use-and-the-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/archived-posts\/day-3-how-much-energy-by-type-does-the-average-nj-household-use-and-the-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 &#8211; How much energy by type does the average NJ household use and the costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The approximate average annual household energy use :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8,500 kWh of electricity costing $1,400 and emitting 4,500 pounds of CO2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1,000 therms of natural gas costing $1,000 emitting 11,300 pounds of CO2&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1,000 gallons of gasoline costing $2,300 and emitting 19,600 pounds of CO2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Energy tip:<\/strong> There are two ways to start implementing energy efficiency recommendations from an energy audit report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Do all the options and recommendations at one time called a whole building approach.&nbsp; This has the highest initial costs but also the highest energy saving and avoided environmental impacts. See NJBPU Clean Energy Program <a href=\"https:\/\/njcleanenergy.com\/residential\/programs\/home-performance-energy-star\/home-performance-energy-star-r\">https:\/\/njcleanenergy.com\/residential\/programs\/home-performance-energy-star\/home-performance-energy-star-r<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li>Do the no cost and low-cost recommendations first and use the accumulated saving to pay for the largest recommendations and costs.&nbsp; This has the lowest cost and longer time to implement.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The approximate average annual household energy use : 8,500 kWh of electricity costing $1,400 and emitting 4,500 pounds of CO2 1,000 therms of natural gas costing $1,000 emitting 11,300 pounds of CO2&nbsp; 1,000 gallons of gasoline costing $2,300 and emitting 19,600 pounds of CO2 Energy tip: There are two ways to start implementing energy efficiency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146,"featured_media":2552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}