In today’s world, houses are becoming more expensive to heat and maintain, as such investing in the wrong insulation and appliances for your house can be one of the costliest decisions you make. Inefficient insulation and appliances, especially HVAC systems, create added unnecessary costs to your home as every month goes by.

Here are the major ways in which energy bills are stacking up against the homeowner, and what Prime Energy Group can do to help:

• Energy Costs

When America was building its current generation of houses, electricity was cheap and abundant. Now, electricity demand reaches staggering peaks, and costs have begun to climb irreversibly.



Graph from oklahomafoam.com; Data from www.bis.gov

This graph illustrates the rising costs of energy sources until 2005, and gives an indicator of current energy markets. Using more recent data, prices for electricity in the home have risen over 12% in under a decade.

As costs inevitably increase, wasteful energy-hungry houses are increasingly expensive also.

• House Leakage

Contrary to the traditional philosophy of “breathing” buildings, modern homes are both more efficient and better off tightly insulated, more akin to a thermos. This keeps energy-intensive heating and cooling costs down to a minimum, otherwise you find yourself paying to heat the yard and pavement outside.


Department of Energy studies have scientifically analyzed where air is lost in the home. They conclude, “Air infiltrates into and out of your home through every hole and crack. About one-third of this air infiltrates through openings in your ceilings, walls, and floors.”

Furthermore, local non-profit Advanced Energy has found NC homes to be as high as 79% leaky, with a median rate of 20%. Not a single building came near their recommended infiltration of 3%.
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Preventing such leakage of costly heated and cooled air presents a huge opportunity to reduce energy bills, as Department of Energy studies estimate air leakage to account for as much as 40% of energy use. This is a massive amount of energy loss to put up with as an individual and a nation.

• The Solution

Prime Energy Group has technology and methods specifically engineered to counter these problems and save untold amounts in energy bills:

• The first step in creating a money and energy saving house is to conduct a Thermal Engineering Analysis to understand flows of energy in your home.
• Then you need to insulate your home effectively, turning it into a thermos bottle. There is no technology more superior at achieving this level of insulation than SPF insulation.
• Finally, EnergyWise uses its thermal engineering analysis to best optimize your HVAC system, creating a highly efficient, low-cost living environment both healthier and cheaper to maintain than any other.
• Above and beyond this achievement, EnergyWise further GUARANTEES the success of their analysis and installation, financially locking down any doubts that your investment will not pay off in the long-term. Far from it, homes fitted with EnergyWise systems are among the most efficient and cheapest to maintain.

• Tax Credits

Not only does optimizing your house to make it energy efficient save untold amounts in energy bills and maintenance over the long term — the Federal government will fork out cash to help you do it! There are currently several tax credits available for improving energy efficiency, particularly through insulation improvements, both from Federal, State, and local energy companies.

See our Tax Credits page for more information.