Interactive Evaluation Tools for Energy Consumption and Saving EnergyBelow you'll find links to interactive software and calculation tools that can help you evaluate your current energy consumption and provide suggestions for how you can save energy.
Visit our sections on conducting a load analysis, reducing your electricity loads, and improving your home's energy efficiency for more information on these topics.
- Online Tools for Calculating Emissions
Calculators and software designed to help you analyze your energy consumption and estimate the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency .
- Energy Star's Home Energy Yardstick
Interactive tool that allows you to compare your home's energy use against that of other single-family homes.
From the Energy Star Web site, which is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S Department of Energy .
- Home Energy Audits (Factsheets)
Details the steps for performing your own home energy audit. An energy audit can help you assess the amount of energy your home consumes and evaluate how to make your home more energy efficient.
From the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy .
- Home Energy Saver
Do-it-yourself energy audit tool from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that helps you determine the energy savings from a wide variety of energy-efficiency projects.
Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory .
- ZIP Code Insulation Tool
Interactive tool from the Department of Energy that helps you determine optimum insulation for your specific needs.
From the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory .
- Energy Cost Calculators
Interactive tools developed by the Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program.
- MotorMaster+ 4.0
MotorMaster+4.0 is a software program that analyzes motor and motor system efficiency. Designed for utility auditors, industrial plant energy coordinators, and consulting engineers, MotorMaster+4.0 is used to identify inefficient or oversized facility motors and compute the energy and demand savings associated with selection of a replacement energy-efficient model.
The MotorMaster+ 4.0 software program was developed by the Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program (the Energy Program), and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) via the Office of Industrial Technologies' Best Practices Program (formerly the Motor Challenge Program).
Source: Dept. of Energy
