What Uses the Most Energy in Your Home? (2023)
What Uses the Most Energy in Your Home? What Are the Best Ways to Increase Sales for My HVAC Business? (Check this blog post as a way to use this information to benefit your customer and your hvac business)
Knowing the answer (or an answer) to this question can make money for your company. Want to know how? Of course you do, so see below.
Here’s the Problem…
Face it. We work in an expensive industry. We sell things—necessary things—that are rather pricey. Nobody wants to shell out thousands and thousands of dollars for something as unglamorous as a heater or air conditioner unit. A real nice TV, maybe. That used pickup truck or boat—tempting. But heating and air? No fun at all.
As a conscientious service company, you realize that all mechanical equipment has a useful life span. You tell your client the cost for this next—very much needed repair or upgrade—and he wants to think about it. “Can we get by for just one more summer (or winter)? Don’t you wish you could help him see why it is next-to-useless to fight the inevitable, but to do so without irritating that customer?
Try this ‘New Tool’…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just click a button on your phone and show your customer the equation solving his problem? Now you can.
Actually, it’s not a tool, not really, but it is real data, which can become a decision making tool. Below, we are including some images and data from third party authorities to help improve your customer’s thought process. Download the images to your phone—maybe to the picture gallery—someplace easy to find—so that you can easily bring it up to show your customer. [Data Source: World Bank Group & Connect4Climate]
Of the 47%, 17.5% is cooling, 29.5% is heating
The pie chart and the table display the data best. The 35% energy waste is a selling point, but is simply a national average figure, but it does point to the fact that we should all become better stewards of our resources.
A big number is the 1.71 kWh for a new unit in comparison to 6 kWh for older units. The math shows 72.5% less energy consumption. For the sake of argument, turning the 72.5% into a savings of, say, $100.00 per month would equal $1,200.00 per year, and that is probably low. Even at that, ten years equals $12,000.00 saved but, as the old saying goes, ‘Your results may differ.’
Residential energy consumption is the third largest use of energy in the U.S. 65% is used 35% is wasted
Resources: Energy Savings - Pacific Gas & Electric - Energy Efficiency Programs
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