June 2025 - The $1,000 Fine, the 100,000 BTU Furnace, and Why Nobody's Doing Load Calculations
WYSL/ Wise Home Energy Show
Jeff Flaherty opens with three government inefficiency stories in a row: an enhanced license you can't actually schedule online, postage-paid business mail that takes three weeks to arrive, and a summons from New York City's Department of Environmental Protection citing a Wise Home Energy van for idling, for a license plate the company doesn't own, on a vehicle that has never been within 240 miles of the city. From there he gets into a six-month-old 100,000 BTU furnace installed in a home that should have a 60,000 BTU unit, why the homeowner is happy but locked into 20 years of higher bills and louder cycling, and what happens when a salesperson who never did installs starts sizing equipment by gut feeling. He also covers a $49 central AC cleaning special for Monroe County, why cottonwood is quietly destroying condensers across the region, and what's happening with NYSERDA's low-to-moderate income program funding. Plus the drain plug analogy that sums up air sealing better than most textbooks do.
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