The Home Energy Analyzer is a free online service provided by Burbank Water and Power. It's fast and easy to use. In just minutes, you'll have customized information on how you can reduce your energy use and costs in your household without sacrificing comfort or convenience. There is a vast wealth of information on this service and we encourage you to poke around for a while!
Here are just a few things that you can do with this service:
- Answer about a dozen short questions under the "Home Profile" page to get started. This will trigger your customized energy-saving recommendations.
- Interested in making energy improvements to your home? Simply click on the "Improve My Home" section. You'll find detailed ways to make lighting, cooling and heating improvements. You'll also find our Appliance Calculators on this page. These handy calculators compare your existing appliances with new energy-efficient models and let you know how much you could be saving in energy costs to run household appliances!
- Do you find that energy-related technologies mystify you? Don't know the difference between a traditional washing machine and a horizontal-axis washing machine? Want to get more information on Energy Star appliances? For answers to these questions and many, many more, just click on the 'Learn About Energy' tab.
- Have any electricity or natural gas bills handy? If so, you can input your monthly kilowatt-hours or natural gas therms used in your home under the "My Energy Bills" tab. This will provide you with a comparison of how your home's energy use stacks up against similar homes.
