Hudson Star Observer Article
December 25th, 2010 by Tim Delhey EianThe Hudson Star Observer followed up with Gary Konkol this week to see how he’s doing in the house without furnace. Read the entire article here.
I’d like to add that $25.25 of Dr. Konkol’s electricity bill goes to the service fees, which means the actual cost of electricity consumed in November was only about $35. It will be interesting to track this over a year and report back an average, since these winter months are going to be more energy intensive than the swing seasons and the summer. In addition, November was incredibly cloudy in the Town of Hudson, leading to very little energy production. And before I forget to mention it—the electricity bill is the only utility bill at the house, so the $35 included the entire energy purchase for heating, ventilation, hot water, and household electricity.
Thanks for sharing this project with everyone! I am curious if you are monitoring the energy use and can report on how much of the total is going towards space heating vs. DHW vs. household appliances vs. ventilation?
We are monitoring and will summarize results. So far, we have just over a month of data, which does not allow for much extrapolation, yet. We’ve also reached out to a local university to assist with more serious monitoring than just on the consumption side. We’ll post any updates regarding monitoring on this blog.
Bravo to the architect Tim Eian and to Dr. Konkol the owner.
When you have a good client a good building program and a good architect you get a good building. Not to mention the wonderful site.
Thanks for the kind words.