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What's Your Score - Compare your household's energy use to others across the country and get recommendations for improvement

What you need to know to get started

  • Your energy use and costs for the last year: You'll need your last 12 months of utility bills OR a 12-month summary statement from your utility company.
  • Energy sources for your home: natural gas, electricity, fuel oil, propane and/or kerosene?
  • The square footage of your home.

Your Home

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Your Fuel Types

In addition to electricity, which fuel type(s) does your home use? Select all that apply. Maximum 2.

Your Energy Use

Would you like to use annual or monthly billing information to enter your household's energy use?

This information should appear on your utility bill. Total monthly bill amount (includes cost of fuel, delivery and other fees and taxes) is required if you would like potential savings calculated. Entering 12 months total will result in a better estimate of cost savings.

Select the Start Date for the year covered:

It takes approximately 30 days to update the Home Energy Yardstick with the latest weather data. Therefore, the Yardstick cannot calculate scores for the 12 month billing cycle that ends with the current month and year. If you are using your most recent utility bill to enter your energy use into the Yardstick, select the previous month and year as the start date. For example: if the current month and year is September 2009, your input for the 12 month billing cycle should start in August 2008 (ending July 2009).

Enter Totals for the year:

Enter your monthly energy use and cost information using your utility bills.

Note: Fuel Oil, Propane, and Kerosene are often not billed monthly. Therefore, only fill in as many rows as you have bill statements.

Residential natural gas use is typically measured in CCF (hundred cubic feet) or therms. One therm is approximately equal to 1 CCF of natural gas. Sometimes it is measured in dekatherms (dkt). To convert dkt to CCF multiply by 9.7561.

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