How much can I expect to save?

• LEED homes are between 30-60% more efficient and this is verified by separate third party assessment which includes energy modeling. The results of an assessment for a home we completed last year determined it was 38.8% more energy efficient than a home built to traditional codes. LEED homes use, on average, 50% less water and divert between 50-70% of waste from landfills. 
  

• Electric utilities across the country have raised rates up to 29% across the board because of the rising cost of oil. 
  

• According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration last year the average cost of delivered residential propane gas was up 28% from a year earlier. Residential heating oil cost 37% more than a year earlier. 
  

• Philadelphia faces massive electricity rate hikes not just because of increasing oil prices but because of impending deregulation, set to take effect in our region at the end of 2010. In other parts of Pennsylvania deregulation caused a 70% jump in rates; in Maryland, rates increased 72% while in Delaware rates doubled. 
  

• The cost of water is also going up. Recently, the Philadelphia Water department announced a proposed rate increase of 30%