[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Pass it on!-More Volunteer Homes Needed for Pecan Street Research Project

[Shira Evergreen]

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> From: Aislyn Colgan <aislyn.colgan at goddard.edu>
> Subject: Pass it on!-More Volunteer Homes Needed for Pecan Street Research Project
> Date: January 11, 2019 at 11:34:03 AM GMT-5
> To: fcna-ithaca at googlegroups.com
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> Want to know how much electricity each area of your home uses?
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> Want to contribute to research that can help design more energy efficient homes?
> “Donate your house to science”  by participating in this upcoming research project!
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>  Pecan Street research team is still looking for volunteer homes in Tompkins County!
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> FREE! The Sloan Foundation/Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future/Pecan Street eGauge project, in collaboration with the Energy Smart Community, invite you to participate in a local research project to measure detailed electricity use patterns in people’s homes. 
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> If you are interested, register here <https://www.pecanstreet.org/2018/06/new-york-and-california-participation-agreement/> or contact Rachael Jenkins 512-782-9213 or rjenkins at pecanstreet.org
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> Also, check out their website here: https://www.pecanstreet.org/2018/09/ithaca/ <https://www.pecanstreet.org/2018/09/ithaca/>
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> Participants will have an eGauge meter installed for free in their home which will measure detailed information about all the electricity your home uses. The resulting data is available to you the homeowner, and also is securely transferred to Pecan Street where it is anonymized to Department Of Energy standards and provided to researchers.
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> Researchers around the world are very interested in this unique highly granular data for understanding how residential electricity load is divided between uses (water heating, refrigeration, air conditioning dishwashing, lights, etc) within a home. This data can help researchers understand how to innovate new ways to design ‘smarter’ homes that use less energy. Pecan Street is looking to get at least 100 homes that fit their criteria for the local test bed. If your home meets their needs, they will be contacting you directly in early 2019.
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> Here is the basic info you need to know to sign up to have an eGauge meter placed on your home:
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> The Pecan Street team requires that homes be:
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> owner occupied single family homes (some Duplexes and Town Homes may qualify)
> equipped with internet 
> able to sign a minimum two year agreement
> located withing Tompkins County
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> Here is some more information about how the eGauges will be set up in your home:
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> In general, participating in Pecan Street's programs requires minimal time or effort. Step one involves scheduling an appointment to have a certified master electrician install the eGauge <https://www.egauge.net/home-energy-monitor/> home energy monitoring system. This installation takes 4 - 6 hours. During this appointment, the electrician will install the eGauge device inside or adjacent to your breaker panel and check that all the circuits are labeled correctly. To transmit the data, the installer will then run an ethernet cable from your router to a HomePlug, approximately the size of a deck of cards, that will need to to be plugged into a nearby outlet. Finally, you will receive an email from Pecan Street with directions on how to begin viewing your energy use in real-time. As the program carries on, we ask our volunteer network to complete an annual survey (usually about 20 min in length), and you will occasionally hear from us if your device falls offline and stops sending data to our secure servers. This typically occurs when the HomePlug is accidentally unplugged or when there are changes to the WiFi network.
> If you are interested, register here <https://www.pecanstreet.org/2018/06/new-york-and-california-participation-agreement/> or contact Rachael Jenkins 512-782-9213 or rjenkins at pecanstreet.org
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> Also, check out their website here: https://www.pecanstreet.org/2018/09/ithaca/ <https://www.pecanstreet.org/2018/09/ithaca/>
> Please contact Rachael Jenkins for any questions or comments.
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> Cheers!
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> -Aislyn Colgan
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> Aislyn Colgan
> Energy Smart Communities Educator
> acc332 at cornell.edu <mailto:acc332 at cornell.edu>
> (607) 272-2292
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> Cornell Cooperative Extension- Tompkins County
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> ccetompkins.org/esc <http://ccetompkins.org/energy/energy-smart-community-tompkins>
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