What if you were told that with a few simple changes, home owners could cut their household electricity consumption by half? It’s possible, and Ron Kube is living proof.

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Part 4 – The energy detective

Ron Kube recently installed a solar-power system on his St. Albert home. But before going solar, he checked to see how much electricity his home was using. 

He was shocked—no pun intended—to discover his family was using 70 per cent more than the Alberta average of 7,200 kilowatt hours per year–they were energy hogs. “We were actually using over 12,000 kilowatt hours a year,” Kube ruefully admits. “So, then, the question was, okay, where are all those electrons going?” 

Ron is a university professor, so his curiosity quickly transmogrified into a full-blown research project.

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