Energy

Homeowners Can Find Energy Advisor Online from DNR

Louisiana Energy Retrofit Advisor

Baton Rouge—Want to know your potential for energy savings at home or at the office? You can if you ask the Louisiana Energy "Retrofit Advisor" sponsored by the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Homeowners and small business owners can click their way to home improvements and can bank the savings that result from reducing energy costs. The answers are online and the retrofit advisor will give you recommendations based on information you input at your computer.

DNR Technology Assessment Director Mike French said the new software package is a user friendly tool that average citizens can use to assess and analyze conditions in their homes or small offices. "Our Energy Office personnel worked closely with Louisiana State University to create the web site so that consumers could easily follow a few steps in gaining valuable information on energy savings," French explained.

The web project was funded from Petroleum Violation Escrow (PVE) funds allocated to the department and approved by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Questions about your home, hot water usage, lighting, insulations and even your landscaping are clues that the retrofit advisor must have to interpret your energy savings needs. The steps are as easy as locating the website, keying in the answers to several important questions, and clicking to the advisor's recommendations. And recalculating is an option at anytime in the process.

"The Retrofit Advisor has great advice, it took us awhile to get it online, and now we want people to use and benefit from it," French said. The Internet link to the Louisiana Energy Retrofit Advisor is http://www.dnr.state.la.us/retrofit/.

Editors: For more on this topic, contact DNR Public Information Office at 225-342-8955 or Energy Section Manager Tangular Williams at 225-342-8572.