Electrify Everything: Rethinking Home Performance

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

There’s a new phrase bouncing around energy circles: Electrify Everything.

This week, we talk to Nate Adams, a home performance expert whose personal mission is to rip gas meters out of homes and move us closer toward full electrification. As he’s learned from experience, it’s not easy.

The electrification of homes may be getting easier in California, however.

In the second half of the show, we’re going to tackle California’s new building codes. Starting in 2020, most new homes will have to come with solar panels on the roof. And there are new incentives for electric space heating and water heating – a very big step toward electrification of everything.

The codes have created a very strong reaction, both positive and negative – and we’ll look at both sides.

The Energy Gang is brought to you by Sense. Sense installs in your home's electrical panel and provides insight into your energy use and home activity through iOS, Android and web apps. Find out more.

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0:00.0	So this is like the most interesting interview I've ever prepped for because I normally dig into the interview guest but instead Nate
0:09.5	Dove into my personal life. He asked for my address then he had me down in my basement
0:14.8	searching for my serial numbers on my furnace and water heater you're certainly
0:18.2	thorough sir well I figured talking about your houses will actually be more interesting than a lot of other things.
0:26.5	Yeah, I don't know that I got the same level of treatment, Nate.
0:29.8	You already have a new tight house jigger. What are we going to do with your house?
0:33.6	I know, it's toy.
0:35.1	Yeah, I sent Nate pictures of my house,
0:37.1	which is a manufactured house,
0:39.2	so it was made off site, and it was like duct taped
0:42.3	or stapled together when they brought in these four big pieces and you would never know but I'm really curious what it means for energy efficiency and the future.
0:50.9	Oh my god, this is like a support group for homeowners.
0:57.0	Coming up, we talk to the House Whisperer himself.
1:00.0	But first, a word from our sponsor, Sents.
1:03.0	Sents lets you know what devices are on in your home and how much electricity they're using
1:06.5	so you can save energy and see what's happening all from your smartphone.
1:10.3	It's a little orange box that connects to your electric panel and samples power a million times per second.
1:15.0	It's a device that will get more important as we electrify more of our lives.
1:19.0	To find out more, visit sense.com slash energy gang.
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1:30.4	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, a weekly digest on energy, circles, electrify everything.
1:47.6	This week we'll talk to a guy who's making it his personal mission to rip gas meters out of
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