Load Management: Utility strategies to reduce consumer demand for electricity during peak usage times, which can reduce their costs of supplying power. Incentive: Encouragement, often financial, for customers to make use of a particular product, type of product, or service. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC): The sum total of components necessary to provide space conditioning for interior rooms in order to comfortably control the indoor climate in all seasons regardless of the outdoor weather. Giveaway: Free products or services given to consumers by utility providers or product manufacturers to encourage the use of a product or behavior. Energy Efficiency Mortgage (EEM): A type of energy efficiency loan where the efficiency of a home is taken into account by mortgage brokers assessing an applicant’s loan eligibility. Energy Efficiency Loan: Money lent to customers, usually at a reduced interest rate, for the purchase and installation of energy efficient/renewable energy equipment. Feedback typically emphasizes the most cost-effective opportunities for energy savings. Energy Audit: An inspection, survey, and analysis of an occupied building to prioritize its energy uses with an eye toward reducing energy consumption while maintaining or improving human comfort, health, and safety. 
Demand-Side Management: The use of incentive programs by a utility provider to increase the energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption and lower the operating costs of customers’ homes. 
Incentive programs often target these very types of improvements.
In most Florida homes, the greatest return on energy efficiency investments comes from adding or improving attic insulation, installing low-cost weatherization measures, and upgrading the air conditioning system. Most utility providers offer home energy audits at little or no cost to help customers identify particular areas where energy efficiency improvements can be made. Taylor, Jennison Kipp Searcy, and Kathleen C. Credit: This resource is a revised version of the EDIS IFAS fact sheet Energy Efficient Homes: Incentive Programs for Energy Efficiency (FSC3268), by Nicholas W.
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