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1. 1. Kootenai Electric Cooperative - Heat Pump Loans

   www.kec.com/energy_info/loan_p - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/26/2001   Last Visited: 2/17/2006

   As part of KEC's loan program you will have to submit bids for the heat pump system to KEC Energy Services Director Peter Anderson.

2. 2. Con.WEB: Issue 44

   www.newsdata.com/enernet/conwe - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/22/1999   Last Visited: 11/21/2001

   (Photo courtesy of Peter Anderson)
   
   near a placid stretch of the Spokane River among ponderosa pines.
   
   But this particular house is really quite different. It's an educational showcase for residential energy efficiency.
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   "A fair number of builders came through during the Parade of Homes," reported energy services director Peter Anderson of Kootenai Electric Cooperative, BPA's local utility partner on the project. "Most of them were pretty impressed." He found overall reaction to the NeXt House "pretty much overwhelming. Everyone thought the home was really beautiful, really fantastic."
   
   Tours will continue to be offered into early fall, when BPA plans to put the NeXt House on the market.
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   "It's just a piece of the puzzle" in advancing the market for residential energy efficiency, Anderson said. "But every little piece helps."
   
   The Ultimate Home and Garden Show Booth
   
   BPA's Jackson initiated the project, according to Anderson, and approached Kootenai. "We thought it sounded like a great idea," he said, especially considering BPA's role in paying for the new home. "This is like the ultimate home and garden show booth . . . Here we have a 4,500-square-foot house and just about everything you'd want to talk with somebody about [on energy efficiency] was right there."
   
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   (Photo courtesy of Peter Anderson)
   
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   "The goal was to blend energy efficiency and electrotechnologies, while also paying attention to healthy home considerations . . . and use green-friendly products where we could," said Anderson.
   
   All the participants, he noted, generally agreed on the elements of a super-efficient home using state-of-the-art technologies.
   
   Whoever buys the NeXt House will likely pay a lot of money for it, but will get a very spacious four-bedroom, three-story, 4,500-square-foot home with an astounding array of home technologies--energy and otherwise--along with very low heating and cooling costs, an estimated $300 annually in northern Idaho's cold-winter/warm-summer climate.
   
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   They are also expensive in initial cost--Anderson estimated about $15,000 for this type of system--although WaterFurnace claims its model can generally save up to 60 percent in operating costs compared to conventional heating and air-conditioning systems.
   
   Domestic hot water also is provided through the geothermal system, with a tankless on-demand water heater as backup.
   
   Other elements of the interior air system include well-sealed ducts; separate supply and return ducts in each bedroom, for balanced air distribution; and an air-to-air heat exchanger, which brings in and purifies outside air before sending it around the house. "The air-to-air heat exchanger provides cleaner ventilation to the whole house more efficiently than relying on infiltration and exfiltration through cracks and holes in the building envelope," according to a self-guided NeXt House tour.
   
   For the building envelope, the NeXt House team chose structural insulated panels for above-grade walls and ceilings. These panels consist of "a continuous core of rigid foam insulation that is laminated between two layers of structural board with an industrial adhesive," according to literature from manufacturer Insulspan. The 6-1/4-inch-thick wall panels provide R-25 insulation, while the ceiling panels, slightly more than a foot thick, offer R-50.
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   (Photo courtesy of Peter Anderson)
   
   are three-paned, low-emissivity and filled inside with krypton, with an insulating value of R-5. "The windows are great for that kind of . . . temperature extreme" climate, noted Pollard, the architect.
   
   Appliances include a refrigerator, dishwasher and front-loading washing machine representing "the most efficient we could find," said Anderson. For lighting, compact fluorescent bulbs are commonly used along with some halogen lamps. And a 180-watt-capacity solar photovoltaic unit, complete with a power inverter, is available for landscape lighting and exterior water pumping.
   
   Other elements of the home include maple wood flooring recycled from a Portland school gymnasium (avoiding chemical-dispensing carpets), wood harvested from certified sustainable forests, granite kitchen counters, engineered floor joists designed to not squeak, and a home automation system that "runs heating, lights and appliances . . . [and] connects with the TV, audio, video, and phone systems and provides home security viewing," according to a NeXt House brochure.

3. 3. Gemstar Home Energy Rating System - Raters

   www.gemstarratings.com/raters. - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/5/2001   Last Visited: 1/7/2002

   Peter Anderson Kootenai Electric Cooperative PO Box 278 Hayden, ID 83853 Phone: 208-765-1200; FAX: 208-772-5858 panderson@kec.com