SMUD Opens State of the Art E-House

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has unveiled its renovated E-House, an educational tool designed to showcase the latest and greatest in energy efficiency techniques and materials in new home building and existing home remodeling. The latest is a vastly upgraded version of the previous model thousands of SMUD customers have visited over the years.

The full-scale, walk-through model includes many features like the latest advances in home
framing that uses less wood. There are new roofing technologies and improved insulation. The new
model contains energy-efficient windows, the newest day lighting products, advanced lighting, cooling
products like a whole house fan, solar panels that look like roof shingles, radiant barriers; “cool” roofing,
and sustainable exterior finishes.

E-House is located in the lobby of the SMUD Customer Service Center located at 6301 S Street.
The lobby is open to customers from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Residential customers can
see new technologies that can help them save money on their energy bills. Commercial contractors and
building designers can utilize E-House for energy education purposes and to understand specific energy-
efficient products and applications. It is also a favorite prop for local news media to visually demonstrate
for their audiences ways to save money on their energy bills without sacrificing comfort.

E-House is an exhibit for the SMUD Energy & Technology Center (E&TC), which promotes
market acceptance and transformation of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and safe energy-usage
products and processes. With workshops, exhibits, and consultations, the E&TC educates many
residential customers, critical decision makers, and change agents in the greater Sacramento area.

The original E-House was constructed in 1996. Many of the features included in the renovation
were donated by partners to minimize cost impact to SMUD customer-owners.

For more information about the SMUD E-House, the Energy & Technology Center or SMUD’s
many energy efficiency programs that can save residential and business customer money on their energy
bills, please click here.

Submitted by SMUD.

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