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Reduce future electric bills BEFORE you build

With the building season just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to plan how you and your builder can take a proactive approach to reducing your future electric bills. If you’re a Capital Electric Cooperative member, stop by headquarters and visit with our member services department.

Even before you build, we can analyze your floor plans to calculate heat loss and determine the necessary type and size of equipment needed to efficiently heat that new floor plan.

Josh Schaffner, member services assistant at Capital Electric, uses floor-plan software called Right-Suite™ Residential to calculate heat loss. Here’s how it works: A member-consumer comes to our office with a floor plan, ideally before construction has started. Josh will take the floor plan and input the dimensions electronically. The software, made by Wrightsoft™, considers the geographic location, climate and direction the home faces. It then takes into consideration the number and types of windows, walls and doors. After all the specifications have been entered, the software automatically calculates the amount of heat loss for that new home or business.

By using this software to calculate heat loss, the member services department at Capital Electric can determine the necessary type and size of equipment needed to efficiently heat that new floor plan.

“This is important for several reasons,” Schaffner says. “We don’t want our members to end up paying for equipment they don’t need. We also don’t want an undersized unit installed. By visiting with us and sharing their floor plan before they build, we can save our members a lot of money.”

For more information on how Capital Electric can analyze your future floor plan, contact Josh at (701) 223-1513. This is a FREE service we are proud to offer to our current and future members.