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With spring and summer just around the corner, explore tips on how to improve your home's energy efficiency. <a href="http://energy.gov/energysaver/articles/spring-and-summer-energy-saving-tips">Check out tips for saving energy and money during the spring and summer</a>.

With spring and summer just around the corner, explore tips on how to improve your home's energy efficiency. Check out tips for saving energy and money during the spring and summer.

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Home Energy Audits
Insulation
Sealing Your Home
Ventilation
Resolve to Save Energy This Year
Looking for ways to save energy? Check out these tips that every homeowner should try. | Infographic by Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

Instead of making a New Year's resolution, this year make a home energy efficiency resolution using our top 8 tips to save energy and money.

Small Changes Help Long Island Homeowner Save Big on Energy Costs
Located near the Long Island Sound, Deborah Wetzel's condo is cold and drafty eight months out of the year. A home energy audit and small energy efficiency upgrades helped Wetzel improve the comfort of her home while saving money on energy bills. | Photo courtesy of Deborah Wetzel.

Profiling how a home energy audit and small energy efficiency upgrades helped one homeowner save big on her energy bills.

Energy Efficiency Upgrades Help Retired Military Officers Save Money
A retirement community in San Antonio worked with a local Better Buildings Neighborhood Program partner, CPS Energy Saver, to make energy efficiency upgrades to 189 single-family cottages. | Photo courtesy of CPS Energy.

Learn how a San Antonio retirement community for military officers worked with a local energy efficiency program to improve the comfort and efficiency of its buildings.

Home Energy Audits: Making Homes More Energy Efficient and Comfortable
Learn how a home energy audit is helping Seth Budick and his family save money on their energy bills, reduce their carbon footprint and make their home more comfortable. | Photo courtesy of Seth Budick.

Highlighting how a home energy audit is helping a Philadelphia family save money on their energy bills, reduce their carbon footprint and make their home more comfortable.

Living Comfortably: A Consumer’s Guide to Home Energy Upgrades
A weatherization worker drills holes to blow cellulose insulation in the interior walls of this home. | Photo courtesy of Dennis Schroeder, NREL

A four-step guide to making your home more comfortable, energy efficient and healthy.

Estimating the Payback Period of Additional Insulation
Adding insulation in the attic of an existing home often results in a favorable payback. | Photo courtesy of Lieko Earle, NREL PIX 19612.

Adding insulation to an existing home often has an attractive payback period.

Detecting Air Leaks
For a thorough and accurate measurement of air leakage in your home, hire a qualified technician to conduct an energy assessment, particularly a blower door test.

You may already know where some air leakage occurs in your home, such as an under-the-door draft, but you'll need to find the less obvious gaps to properly air seal your home.