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Energy, Water & Environmental Management

Best Ways to Cut the Cost of Keeping Cool

Understanding the main sources of heat gain in your home is the key to choosing the best ways to cut summer utility bills while staying cool and comfortable.
Solar Power for Your Home: A Consumer's Guide

Are you thinking about adding a solar energy system to your home to generate electricity? If so, this consumer guide will help you explore various options, ask important questions and make a well-informed decision. (PDF Format Only)
Best Ways to Cut Heating Bills without Sacrificing Your Comfort

You don’t have to give up comfort to control your heating bill. Here are winter energy saving strategies for southern homes that offer best bang for the buck.
Restore for MORE than Before -- with Energy-saving Improvements

Take control of your future by making your restored or remodeled home more comfortable, with lower utility bills, through energy-saving home improvements.
Stop Sewer Back-Up

A back-flow valve in the common sewer line should allow sewer water to flow from the house to the sewer system, but prevent flow toward the house. To provide best protection from a flooded sewer system, the valve should provide a good seal and operate automatically.
Winter Energy Savings

(Video 01/24/18) This winter has brought record cold temperatures, and it is still not over.
LSU AgCenter offers advice for reducing heating bills without cutting comfort

(01/17/18) Recent unusually cold weather across Louisiana is likely to result in higher utility bills.
Improve Your Home and Prosper

Rising energy prices, ﬂoods and hurricanes happen, but they don’t have to bust your budget.

Innovate . Educate . Improve Lives

The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture

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