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Bracing for Winter

Home heating costs are soaring as the winter of 2005 approaches. Here are continuing Journal reports on how to save money on your electricity, natural gas and oil bills.

Plug into Journal staff writer TImothy C. Barmann's EnergyBlog, a continuously-updated report on energy and utility news, advice for consumers and online resources. Add your comments, too, at: http://www.projo.com/energyblog

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Share your tips: If you have an idea for how to save money on your heating bills this winter - or you have a question about how to cut your energy costs - we'd like to hear about it. Please call the Bracing For Winter help line at: 401-277-7506 or email us at pjbiz@projo.com.


12/26/2005

Bracing for Winter: Reader participation
Thank you. Thanks for all the comments, questions, criticisms and ideas that you offered during the last 12 weeks of our series, Bracing for Winter.


12/19/2005
Appliances and electronics have electricity issues; EnergyStar can help you make a wise choice.

Bracing for Winter, eleventh in a series: Buying appliances
On those infrequent occasions when homeowners are in the market for household appliances, shoppers are most often interested in whether a machine will fit in a certain space or maybe their budget.


12/12/2005
Ana Farias, of Providence, says it's a proven fact that her cat Leah makes sleeping on a cold night a lot toastier.

Bracing for Winter, tenth in a series: Readers' suggestions
Dozens of readers responded to our Bracing For Winter series with their own advice on how to save energy this heating season.


12/5/2005
Hear and see more from Journal writer Tim Barmann

Bracing for Winter, ninth in a series: Q & A
Over the past eight Mondays, The Providence Journal has presented a series of stories designed to help readers cut their energy bills this winter.


11/28/2005

Bracing for Winter, eighth in a series: Wasting Electricity
If you turned down the thermostat and shut off all the lights before you left the house this morning, you may think that you don't need to read this story.


11/21/2005
Hear and see more from Journal writer Tim Barmann

Bracing for Winter, seventh in a series: Light Bulbs
Thomas Edison may have been a genius, but one of his most enduring inventions - the light bulb - is one of today's biggest wasters of energy.


11/14/2005
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Bracing for Winter, sixth in a series: The thermostat
Turning back a thermostat is an effective way of trimming heating bills by 10 percent a year, or more.


11/7/2005
Hear and see more from Journal writer Andrea Stape

Bracing for Winter, fifth in a series: Fireplaces
CUMBERLAND - After spending $3,000 on oil last winter Tom and Olivia Bousquet decided now was the time to put their fireplace to work.
Graphic: Home and hearth: The anatomy of a modern fireplace (pdf)


10/31/2005
Hear and see more from Journal writer Paul Grimaldi.

Bracing for Winter, fourth in a series: Windows and doors
Winter's approach means it's time for homeowners to batten down the hatches. Otherwise, hard-earned money can seep out of leaky windows and doors.


10/24/2005
Hear and see more from Journal writer Timothy C. Barmann.

Bracing for Winter, third in a series: Insulation
Adding insulation to your home can lower heating costs, sometimes dramatically. Practically all homes, even newer ones, can benefit from insulation.


10/17/2005
Journal business writer Dave McPherson narrates ways to improve your heating systems.

Bracing for Winter, second in a series: Furnaces & Boilers
Tuning up old systems can help keep heating costs under control.

Tips to cut your winter heating bills


10/13/2005
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Facing high winter heating bills: Some are snug, other are scared
Dan Cartier is sitting pretty right now in his solar-powered, super-insulated, wood-heated home in Richmond.


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Renewable-energy source rules debated
WARWICK -- State regulators are close to completing rules that will shift more of Rhode Island's electricity supply to renewable resources.


Customer electricity-rate credit ends Oct. 31
This probably couldn't have come at a worse time. A customer credit that has been appearing every month on the bills of most National Grid (formerly Narragansett Electric) customers in Rhode Island is about to end.


10/11/2005

Energy costs generate interest in solar power
Increasing energy costs have caused many Rhode Island residents to seek out new, renewable technologies. "Our office is inundated with calls from homeowners and business owners looking to reduce their energy bills," said Patrick Condon, special ...


10/10/2005
Hear and see more from Journal writer Timothy C. Barmann.

Bracing for Winter: First in a series -- Home energy audit
More than half of the houses people live in today were designed and built in an era of cheap energy.
Multimedia: Tim Barmann narrates a home energy audit and offers tips on energy conservation with photos by Kris Craig


Programs offer free fixes, loans to reduce energy use
There are two energy audit programs available for Rhode Islanders, depending on household income.

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