For home buyers, energy efficiency is an important factor when searching for a new house. It’s not easy to visually inspect a home to determine if it is energy-efficient without doing some additional testing. We can look at the previous utility bills, but energy usage may not match from one occupant to the next. For example, what if a family of five moves in after a single person moves out? The energy consumption patterns will likely be considerably different from one to the next. There are also some behavioral patterns that can cause energy consumption to differ between occupants, ...
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