In The News
Is Your Refrigerator Running (Away with Your Money)?
Rodale News. February 9th, 2011.
“Ideally, running your fridge should only cost about $70 a year,” says Pascale Maslin, founder of Energy Efficiency Experts, a Washington, DC–based energy audit firm. Using less energy to keep your cold stuff cold also translates to fewer emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants.
Energy Efficiency in Old Homes: Begin in the Basement
RenovationDC. February 2nd, 2010.
Pascale Maslin, the founder of Energy Efficiency Experts and one of two featured speakers at Historic Mount Pleasant’s recent event on saving energy in historic homes, has something to say about plugging the holes to eliminate some of those drafts. Maslin’s firm performs energy audits to reduce energy costs, and her main message for old-home owners (or would that be owners of old homes?) is, in essence: spend more time in your basement.
Do Energy-Efficient Appliance Add Up?
Yahoo Finance. January 22nd, 2010.
But Pascale Maslin, founder and owner of Energy Efficiency Experts, says that while it is sometimes hard to measure and accurately quantify energy savings on appliances, replacing 20-year-old units can make a difference. Today's refrigerators are at least 70 percent more efficient than those made 20 years ago, he says. And although a refrigerator usually accounts for only 5 percent of a home's energy consumption, some homeowners could be spending twice as much as they should be by using an older model.
"Just like a car, as they get old they don't run as well or they have to work harder to keep cool. I've seen cases where refrigerators were costing close to $70 per month," says Maslin.
Windows Aren’t Always a Clear Path for Savings
Washington Post. May 16th, 2009.
Replacing windows is "one of the last things you want to do," said Pascale Maslin, founder of energy auditor Energy Efficiency Experts. "First you want to seal up your house, and that takes more time than it does materials. Second thing, you want to get your house insulated."
Trashing the Fridge
The New York Times. February 4th, 2009.
Pascale Maslin, the founder of Energy Efficiency Experts, a Washington-based company that conducts energy audits on homes and other buildings, said people may focus undue attention on the refrigerator’s energy consumption simply because they often hear — incorrectly, it turns out — that it is the household appliance that uses the most energy other than heating and cooling systems.