The energy bill. Creeping its way into your mailbox once a month, this dreaded thing is like an evil lottery. You hold the envelope in your hands thinking, "Come onnn, be small, be small, be small" before slowly opening it and assessing the monetary damage this little sucker incurs. In the dreaded, Florida heat of these summer months, the amount can get exorbitantly high.
Sure you can cut it down doing normal things like turning the air conditioning off when you're gone and the like, but there's more than that and Pinellas County is giving you a completely free way to learn how: the Pinellas Home Energy Symposium.
Taking place on Saturday, September 24 at Pinellas County Extension (12520 Ulmerton Road, Largo) from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. the Pinellas Home Energy Symposium is a great opportunity to learn how to lower your power bill, save energy through home retrofits and upgrades, and make cost-effective investments for energy efficiency.
Dr. Jennifer Languell, an award-winning green building engineer, will begin the symposium with a keynote address. Panel discussions on a variety of energy-saving topics with questions from the audience will follow after the address.
Each attendee of the Pinellas Home Energy Symposium will receive an LED light that uses 80% of the energy typical consumed by the typical, 60-watt incandescent lightbulb (a $50 value). Best of all, it's FREE.
All you need to do is head to the registration page here and register for one of the 150 available spots. At the time of writing this, there are about half of those left. Don't pass up this great, useful, and free opportunity to attend the Pinellas Home Energy Symposium.
