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The 2020 Subaru Forester
The SUV for all you love.
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Saddle Brown Leather
2020 Forester Models
Starting at $24,495[1] MPG 33/26[2]
Includes these key features:
- Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive
- Standard EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology
- SUBARU STARLINK® Multimedia with Apple CarPlay® and Android™ Auto Integration
- 8.7 inches of ground clearance
- LED headlights
- 76.1 cu. ft. of cargo volume
- Rear-seat Reminder System
Forester Premium
Starting at $27,395[1] MPG 33/26[2]
Includes Forester key features and adds:
- SUBARU STARLINK® Safety and Security
- 10-way power driver's seat
- 17-inch alloy wheels
- Power-tilt/sliding panoramic moonroof
- 4G LTE Wi-Fi capability
- Available Power Rear Gate
- All-Weather Package w/ heated front seats
Forester Sport
Starting at $28,995[1] MPG 33/26[2]
Includes Forester Premium key features and adds:
- 18-inch black finish alloy wheels
- Keyless Access with Push-Button Start
- SI-DRIVE® engine management system
- Two-tone cloth upholstery with orange contrast stitching
- Unique orange exterior accents and badging
Forester Touring
Starting at $34,595[1] MPG 33/26[2]
Includes Limited key features and adds:
- Exclusive Saddle Brown Leather-trimmed upholstery available
- SUBARU STARLINK® Multimedia Navigation
- DriverFocus™ Distraction Mitigation System
- 10-way power driver's seat and 8-way power front passenger seat
- All-Weather Package w/ heated front and rear seats
- Satin chrome finish exterior mirrors
There's even more to love about the 2020 Forester.
The 2020 Subaru Forester is packed with technology to deliver endless adventure, thoughtful convenience, and advanced safety. It features the confidence of standard EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology [3] , standard Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive, and the available DriverFocus™ [4] Distraction Mitigation System
Safety For All
Standard Eyesight® Driver Assist Technology
EyeSight has been found to reduce rear-end crashes with injuries by up to 85%.[5]
The 2020 Forester features standard EyeSight Driver Assist Technology with automatic Pre-Collision Braking. New for 2020, EyeSight includes Advanced Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Centering[6], which can take some of the stress out of driving by helping with steering, braking, and throttle control — both in daily traffic and on long road trips. It also features Lane Departure Prevention, which can help you steer back into your lane.
Standard on: All modelsLearn more about Eyesight
Subaru DriverFocus™ Distraction Mitigation System
The 2020 Forester features a state-of-the-art system to help reduce distracted driving for both new and experienced drivers. Each day in the United States, more than 1,000 people are injured in crashes reported to have involved a distracted driver[7]. Working with our award-winning EyeSight Driver Assist Technology, the DriverFocus system is like having an attentive co-pilot along for the ride, available to give a helpful alert if a driver becomes distracted or drowsy. For added convenience, DriverFocus can also recognize up to five different drivers and remember their preferences, including seat position, climate settings, and outside mirror position.
All-Around Awareness
A suite of safety technologies is available on the 2020 Forester to help protect you and your passengers. The Blind-Spot Detection[8] system warns you with a visual indicator in each side mirror if it senses a vehicle in your blind spots. Rear Cross-Traffic Alert[8] helps warn you of traffic approaching from the side as you are backing up, and a standard Rear-Vision Camera enhances visibility when reversing. And with available Reverse Automatic Braking, your vehicle can even stop itself to help avoid objects behind you[9].
Rear-Vision Camera standard on: All models
Reverse Automatic Braking standard on: Touring
Reverse Automatic Braking available on: Sport, Limited
SUBARU STARLINK® Safety and Security
The latest STARLINK Safety and Security system[10] features include Advanced Automatic Collision Notification to alert first responders when an airbag deploys, and SOS Emergency Assistance to lend a hand when you encounter trouble on the road. Remote Engine Start with Climate Control, accessible via your smartphone, ensures your Forester is ready and comfortable[11] .There's also STARLINK Concierge service for personal assistance with tasks like navigation, restaurant reservations, and scheduling service appointments.
Standard on: Premium, Sport, Limited and Touring.
A Versatile, Capable SUV
Standard Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive + 33 MPG**
The balanced design of Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive creates uniform stability and delivers an optimal distribution of power for maximum traction in virtually any weather or road condition. The 2020 Forester is the only non-luxury compact SUV to include standard Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive, which delivers better handling, improved efficiency, and a quicker response to road conditions. The durable SUBARU BOXER engine combined with the standard Lineartronic® CVT allows the Forester to get up to a fuel-efficient 33 MPG** highway.
Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive standard on: All models
SUBARU STARLINK MultimediaA STARLINK Multimedia system with Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™ integration comes standard on the 2020 Forester. Wireless pairing and hands-free smartphone operation allow for safe and easy connection to your favorite apps and content. You can access news, navigation, music, podcasts, and more through available STARLINK apps. A built-in and voice-activated navigation system powered by TomTom is available, as well as an 8-inch touchscreen.
Learn more about Subaru Starlink
Plenty of Cargo Room with Extra-Wide Rear Gate OpeningHaul more gear for your adventures with up to 76.1 cubic feet of cargo space, and an extra-wide rear gate opening makes loading and unloading large items easier. A Power Rear Gate is available to allow opening and closing even when your hands are occupied, and now opens, closes, and locks the entire vehicle with the touch of a button. The Forester adapts to bring longer items by simply adjusting the 60/40-split fold-down rear seat.
Power Rear Gate standard on:Power Rear Gate standard on: Limited, Touring
Available on: Premium, Sport
8.7 Inches of Ground Clearance and Enhanced X-MODE®With 8.7 inches of ground clearance — more than Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, or Ford Escape — and available X-MODE with Hill Descent Control, almost any destination is within reach. X-MODE optimizes the Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive system for maximum traction on slippery surfaces. A dual-function X-MODE with settings for snow, dirt, and mud is also available.
X-MODE standard on: Premium
Dual-function X-MODE standard on: Sport, Limited, and Touring
Built-in Wi-Fi Hotspot Connectivity
With available Wi-Fi connectivity built right into the 2020 Forester, passengers can stream and share their favorite content online using the 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot[12] .From the moment you start your Subaru, up to eight devices can connect. Then everyone can easily stream their TV shows, movies, and music, or play games, check email, and much more.
Standard on: Premium, Sport, Limited, Touring
SUBARU STARLINK Entertainment Anywhere
The STARLINK Entertainment Anywhere package is available to make every trip in your Forester even more enjoyable. With iPad®, you and your passengers have endless opportunities to stay connected, engaged, and entertained. Passengers can also utilize the built-in Wi-Fi capability to stream their favorite content or search the web. This premium entertainment experience is a great value and can be enjoyed in the backseat of your Forester or wherever else your travels take you [13] .
The kit includes:
- 2 Apple iPad® 32GB Wi-Fi models
- 2 Harman Kardon® Bluetooth Headphones
- 2 OtterBox® Defender Series iPad cases
Forester SportThe Forester Sport showcases bold design elements on its sleek exterior and sophisticated cabin upgrades inside. It rides on uniquely finished 18-inch wheels, features LED fog lights, and comes with roof rack tie-down points for added versatility and functional style. And with Sport-specific tuning for SI-DRIVE and dual-function X-MODE®, the Forester Sport is ready for anything.
InteriorThe Forester Sport interior is clad in high-quality textured materials with unique orange accent trim and two-tone gray upholstery with orange contrast stitching to create a cabin that feels as sophisticated as it looks.
18-inch Alloy WheelsStandard 18-inch alloy wheels, with an aggressive design and exclusive black finish, give the Forester Sport a foundation of athletic style.
Roof Rack Tie-DownsThe Forester Sport features integrated roof rail tie-down points that not only provide cargo-carrying capability, but also a finishing touch to its bold design.
SI-DRIVESI-DRIVE — or Subaru Intelligent Drive, is a powertrain performance management system. Sport models feature an exclusive Sport Sharp (S#) SI-DRIVE mode for enhanced throttle response and an even more engaging drive.
Quality That Lasts
Built for the Long Road Ahead
The Forester will be with you on all the journeys ahead — 97% of Forester vehicles sold in the last 10 years are still on the road today[14]. That long-lasting quality is one reason why the Forester has the highest residual value in its class for four years running, according to ALG[15].
Power Panoramic MoonroofGiving the interior an even more expansive atmosphere, an available power tilt/sliding panoramic moonroof lets you feel the breeze, brighten the day, and check out the stars.
Standard on: Premium, Sport, Limited, and Touring
Spacious, High-Quality InteriorThe 2020 Forester offers plenty of room for comfort, with up to 111.9 cubic feet of passenger volume. That's more interior passenger room than Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, or Mazda CX-5. With ample rear legroom and an available panoramic moonroof, the Forester provides an open, airy experience for all.
The cabin also features high-quality, soft-touch materials and contrast stitching throughout, along with standard automatic climate control. And the second row even offers available heated seats, A/C vents, and USB ports to bring front-seat comfort to every passenger.
SUBARU BOXER EngineThe 2020 Forester is powered by a direct-injection SUBARU BOXER® engine with Auto Start-Stop technology. With 182 horsepower and up to 33 MPG**, this balanced, proven design provides impressive efficiency, dependable capability, and years of smooth operation you can rely on for all the adventures ahead.
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Australian Church 'OMG' Sign Grabs Public Attention
Australian Church 'OMG' Sign Grabs Public Attention
In an unconventional move, a pastor of an Australian Church has placed two signs reading "OMG" (Oh My God) on the outside of his Church, attracting the attention of the local community and sparking an Internet frenzy.
The Rev. Howard Langmead of St Paul's Anglican Church, located on Dandenong Road in Caulfield North, Australia, said that the church chose to post two billboards donning the phrase around its premises to "catch attention and be unexpected."
"People forget what they are actually saying when they say 'OMG'," the Rev. Langmead told the Port Phillip Leader. The term "OMG" is used in popular culture as an abbreviation for the exclamation "Oh My God," which many Christians traditionally see as offensive, as it uses the Lord's name in vain.
"We're reclaiming 'oh my God' for the church," he added.
Langmead contends that the church has received a large amount of attention since the two billboards were erected, saying that he has seen people stop and snap photos of the signs.
Also known as Southern Cross Ministries at St. Paul's Caulfield North, the church sits at the T junction of Glenferrie and Dandenong Roads. The "OMG" sign has garnered a lot of attention as a result of the heavy car traffic this intersection receives.
Pastor Jose Gomez of Tampa, Florida, self-deemed the "website pastor" because of his incorporation of technology and pastoral guidance, tweeted the Port Phillip Leader article featuring the OMG sign, re-quoting Rev. Langmead's quote "People forget what they are actually saying when they say 'OMG.'"
Meanwhile, another Twitter user Barbara Fischer of Melbourne tweeted a picture of this sign, saying "Dear Southern Cross Ministries, please pray for a larger vocabulary."
Quirky Church signs such as this one often times spark a mixed opinion from the public. Some deem them creative, while others say they are inappropriate for a religious setting.
Regardless of the reaction, it can be agreed that clever Church signs do attract attention. There is even a website dedicated to these signs: funnychurchsigns.org.
Despite dissatisfaction from some over St. Paul's attempt at being creative, the Church sports another sign that reads: "We pray, stuff happens."

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Fiduciary Standard of Care
A fiduciary has a legal duty to act solely in the best interests of the beneficiary. While an accountant normally is not considered to be a fiduciary to his or her clients, the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct embodies standards of conduct which are closely analogous to a fiduciary relationship—objectivity, integrity, free of conflicts of interest and truthfulness. Accountants who provide audit services cannot be held to a fiduciary standard given their duty to the public.
Courts have found that an accountant can be a fiduciary to his or her client when providing certain professional services including tax services, asset management and general business consulting. Generally, if the following three elements are present in a client relationship, an accountant may be deemed to be a fiduciary to their client: (i) the accountant holds himself or herself out as an expert in an aspect of business, (ii) the client places a high degree of trust and confidence in the accountant and (iii) the client is heavily dependent upon the accountant's advice. An accountant who provides investment advisory services as a registered investment adviser is a fiduciary to his or her advisory clients.
Prudent Practices for Investment Advisors, authored by the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies with in-depth technical review by the AICPA PFP Executive Committee, sets forth industry best practices for fiduciaries who provide comprehensive and continuous investment advice, including financial advisors, broker-consultants, investment consultants, wealth managers, financial consultants, trust officers and financial planners.
Prudent Practices for Investment Stewards, also authored by the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies with an in depth technical review by the AICPA PFP Executive Committee, was developed specifically for investment stewards such as trustees, investment committee members, attorneys, accountants, institutional investors and others involved in managing investment decision-making.
Legal Memorandums for Prudent Investment Practices was published as a companion to the handbooks. This collection of memoranda highlights the legal bases underlying the practices set out in the handbooks. The memoranda were prepared by the law firm of Reish, Luftman, McDaniel & Reicher and are helpful in understanding the rationale for each of the practices.


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By Gordon Brown, U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education
Editor's note: Gordon Brown is a United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education. He was formerly the UK's prime minister.
It is a descent into barbarism. This month's plan by Iraqi parliamentarians to legalize girl marriage at nine follows the Pakistan Islamic Council's demand last month that Pakistan abolish all legal restrictions on child marriage, the revelation that Syrian refugee girls are being sold into marriage against their will and the increased pressure in many African countries to ease the restrictions on selling child brides.
As one who has believed that worldwide disgust at child marriage would end it within our generation, I now find that progress has stalled. In the last few months Mauritania, at the center of allegations of girls' genital mutilation to make possible the early marriage of eight and nine year olds, has resisted pressure to enforce a legal minimum age for marriage.
Attempts in Yemen to do so have also failed. Even Nigeria has been considering reducing the age of marriage.
In India, the rape of girls has brought millions on to the streets in protest and it has now been exposed as the country with 40% of the world's child brides.
The U.N. says one in nine girls is a bride by the age of 15 and that by 2020 142 million - or one in three girls in developing countries - will be married before they are 18. For example, in Afghanistan 60% are married before they turn 16 and in Niger 74% of girls are married by the age of 18.
Fortunately, the reluctance of governments to end abuses is being met with an even stronger movement from girls themselves.
Their anger is now kicking off a global civil rights struggle to rescue children from exploitation and guarantee them their right to education.
Alongside the Iraqi women's network, who declared last month's International Women's Day an Iraqi day of mourning, are Nepal's Common Forum for Kamlari Freedom, the Ugandan Child Protection clubs, the Ghanaian Upper Manya Krobo Rights of the Child Club and Indonesia's Grobogan Child Empowerment Group.
These civil rights movements may not yet be household names but they are borrowing the tactics of the U.S. civil rights movement in defying parents and authorities who try to marry 8, 9 and 10-year-old children off against their will.
Child-marriage-free zones, where girls club together to refuse to be married off, often defying their families' wishes, are springing up in the Indian subcontinent. The first has been formed in Pakistan. In Bangladesh there are now several zones and they are soon to be started in countries like Malawi.
Many of them are linked to the growing global movement, Girls not Brides.
One secure way to prevent child marriage, child labor, child trafficking and discrimination against girls is to ensure we deliver the right of every child to be at school.
On April 10 in Washington, a worldwide emergency coalition for education will be launched. It will show that the answer to ending child marriage is to uphold the right of all children to be free of exploitation and involved in education.
A girl with some education is not only unlikely to be married at 8, 9 or 10 but is also six times less likely to be married by 18.
The coalition will call for four zeroes:
1. zero child marriage
2. zero child labour
3. zero discrimination against girls
4. zero exclusion from education.
It represents the world's last chance to meet the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal target which after huge initial progress –- getting 40 million children to school –- has stalled.
Now 57 million of the most marginalized children, the boy laborer, the trafficked youngster, the nine-year-old bride and the street kid, do not have anyone to make sure they get into a classroom and are learning.
But the violations of children's rights can best be ended by ensuring universal education. It is education that unlocks not only the educational potential of a child but progress in health, employment, opportunity and higher standards of living.
cut off ALL aid to such countries!
And that will ensure that they evolve?? LOL..
Yeah, well, lotsa luck.
This is allowed in Islam. Look at this correct hadith.
The Prophet (ﷺ) wrote the (marriage contract) with `Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Sahih al-Bukhari 5158
They consider their prophet to be a role-model, this is why they marry little girls.
Get over it Islamophob.Its an educational problem and not a religious. If it was a religious problem where in the bible does it say that priest should abuse children as they have?
Even if it isn't a religious issue but a cultural issue, many of the countries with problems like this, have Islam as a very dominant religion if not THE religion as a strong presence of Islam usually outlaws other religions. And Pharaoh's quote and info is correct and the pedophile rolemodel, that prophet is, is not helping this issue either.
Your'e partially right, that Islam does not cover all of these child marriages as countries with a variety of religions have these issues which mostly stems from old times as a guard against the average life expectancy being 29 yrs of age. The problem is that some of the countries that aren't Islamic, points towards Islamic countries to justify these child marriages themselves and some even convert to Islam, just to be protected by the religious unity to keep doing this. It IS a massive issue that such a huge authority and power such as Islam in general, approves of these super-early marriages. Under control they can be okay if not consumated till the girl comes of age at 16/18 but more often than not they are NOT controlled and is a front for child slave sales and subsequent rapes.
The issue of cause being that modern medicine and eradicating of many mass killer diseases have solved most of this problem, meaning girls should no longer be treated as baby factories.
There is absolutely no doubt that not a single Islamic country will outlaw marriages with girls of nine years age. You need to understand the psyche of people of such countries to know why this is so. For them any questioning of Prophet Mohammed's conduct amounts to declaring war on the entire people. First and foremost the rest of the world needs to do some plainspeak on this and state that they have nothing against the people of such countries but will not respect or accept exploitative actions against children even if they are done by those held in utmost reverence. The reverence needs to be given up in favour of humanity. .
Religion in general "allows" a lot of truly asinine things. It's time to put away the old books and start using our minds.
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Any laws that would prevent or inhibit child marriages in Islam would be a non-starter. Such laws would be in direct conflict of Islamic sacred texts, ahadith, Shari'a law, et al, and run the risk of exposing a deeply flawed belief system.
"a deeply flawed belief system"...
if we would have seen the german nazis in such a way, they would rule the world now with their barbarism.
islam is no better and could not reach the same goal because it was stopped forcibly. the siege of vienna as a historic turning point then.
this "flawed belief system" must be rooted out, period.
I do believe that this is something that they all need to work on. Children should not have to be forced into marriage at the age of 9. Children around this age should be going to school and getting an education instead of being sold into marriage.
That's their culture, like it or not. The cultures change as time goes by. One day this won't happen anymore. Worse than this is the fact of many pedophiles who rape young girls by planning every little detail, many of them do that in their own families and are not punished by human law, these have no culture, they just do it because they're cruel.
As long as Muslims revere Mohammud as the "Perfect,Man" there is virtually no hope that the numerous draconian practices such as child marriage, slavery, stoning, et al, will ever be banned.
All We need to take some serious steps to stop this cruelty against child.Childs are strength of a nation and if a nation suffer through such inhumanity then development and growth of such nation could be in danger.
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RowActions are built into 4.0. Look up the xtype "ActionColumn".
Here's the API URL: http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#/....column.Action
RowActions are built into 4.0. Look up the xtype "ActionColumn".
Here's the API URL: http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#/....column.Action
Wow, very cool... I suppose I should have looked into the docs more before posting such a silly question.
We have upgraded extjs from 3.3.0 to 3.3.2 and in that process we lost the tooltips that were shown when the mouse pointer hovered over the icons using for row actions.
The tooltip does never get shown, but markup is the same.
I'm unsure what mechanics actually displays the tooltip, so could any one suggest a way to start debugging the problem.
Best Regards
Note the change of qtip to ext:qtip.Code:tplGroup: '<tpl for="actions">' +'<div class="ux-grow-action-item<tpl if="\'right\'===align"> ux-action-right</tpl> ' +'{cls}" style="{style}" ext:qtip="{qtip}">{text}
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Can you provide some sample code on how you would bind the icon in the column to the data?
More or less. I'm not actually displaying the true or false value in the row, i just want to display a one icon if the field is true, and another if false instead of the field saying true or false.
What you can do is when you send back the JSON array which is populating your grid rows, you'll have something called "abc: true" or "abc: false" (where abc can be anything), depending on whether you want to show or hide the RowAction icon. With me so far? Then, you'll take abc variable and map it to the "hideIndex" attribute for the icon you want to show or hide, so it'd look like... hideIndex: abc (abc being either true or false).
Does that make sense? I can whip up an example if truly necessary, but that's the jist of how to show or hide specific icons.
so if i'm understanding you, I would then need two items in my action column definition, one with each icon. And then show or hide them based on the value using the hideIndex? An example would help if it's not too much trouble.
Your JSON store (generated from the server) would then contain the values for hidePdf, hideEmail, and hidePrint as either "true" or "false".Code:var store = new Ext.data.JsonStore({ root: 'data', totalProperty: 'totalCount', idProperty: 'id', remoteSort: true, fields: [ 'id', 'hidePdf', 'hideEmail', 'hidePrint' ] // more code }); var action = new Ext.ux.grid.RowActions({ header:'Export', width: 120, sortable: false, actions:[ { iconCls:'icon-pdf', tooltip:'Download PDF', hideIndex: hidePdf }, { iconCls:'icon-email-go', tooltip:'Email to Me', hideIndex: hideEmail }, { iconCls:'icon-print', tooltip:'Printable View', hideIndex: hidePrint } ], callbacks:{ /* DOWNLOAD PDF ITEM */ 'icon-pdf':function(grid, record, action, row, col) { // code }, /* EMAIL TO ME */ 'icon-email-go':function(grid, record, action, row, col) { //code }, /* PRINTABLE VIEW */ 'icon-print':function(grid, record, action, row, col) { // code } } // end callbacks });
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- The second reason is that we use DOE (Department of Energy) electricity usage patterns for the TPU service territory, and some very basic questions we ask you about your home to estimate how you use power over the course of a day and the seasons of the year. This allows us to accurately forecast solar savings where time of use electricity plans are available to you. We estimate your electricity usage for each hour of the year and then overlay the known production of solar panels in your area for each hour of the year. Without this level of detail solar panel cost and savings calculators on are inaccurate; and
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This gives a fairly accurate estimate but it is not an exact estimate. The best way to get an exact estimate of your solar savings and whether or not there are possible savings from swapping rate plans is to speak to one of your local solar companies. Whilst solar companies are experts in solar they also become experts in knowing the cheapest rate plans (both before and after solar) from their local utility companies.
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To illustrate ideas, we'll show numbers based on typical energy usage for a single-family home in Tacoma, WA.
Meet our typical family from Tacoma: the Jacobs family. If you look closely at their picture, you'll see that the dad is also reading this article. The mom and daughter are saving energy by just pretending their tablets are on.
Let's see how the Jacobs family cut their energy bill by 7%, or $7 per month.
Is it worth using less energy?
We won't rally behind former President Jimmy Carter and tell you to put on a sweater and turn down the thermostat. We'd rather not see our breath in the living room. But it's probably worth taking 5 minutes to consider whether energy is wasted in your home (in other words, is energy used that doesn't improve your family's well-being).
The Jacobs family children have been politely asked to turn off lights when leaving rooms about 17 trillion times. They're generally respectful, but for whatever reason this one doesn't stick. How much money would the Jacobs family save if the children always turned off their lights?
Three 30-watt lights get left on in empty rooms 2 hours per day on average. That's 5.5 kilowatt-hours per month (3 x 30 x 2 x 30.4) — which costs 53¢. Is it worth continuing the effort (or trying a smart-home solution)? Nope. The parents will let this one go for now.
What about energy efficiency?
There might be one or more basic energy-efficiency investments you can make that'd cut your energy bill while not reducing comfort or adding day-to-day complexity.
The Jacobs family got a new refrigerator a decade ago, and plugged in their previous 1990s-era fridge in the garage (for those three sports drinks). Refrigerator efficiency has come a long way since the 1990s. In fact, their garage fridge uses over twice as much energy as their new Energy Star fridge. It'll cost them $8.13 per month to run it.
Should they replace the old garage fridge with a basic $500 Energy Star fridge? They'd save $8.13 per month on their energy bill, but the related financing payment would be $9.55 per month ($500 borrowed, 5-year term, 5.5% interest). Their net loss in the first month would be $1.42. With the financing cost, the new fridge would pay for itself in 6 years (followed by years or decades of pure bill savings).
The Jacobs family decided they don't even need a second fridge. That's a $8.13 monthly bill reduction!
The Jacobs family's game plan so far
The Jacobs family has felt the pain of high energy bills for years. Thanks to this article (we have no shame), they're now ready to take control and cut it. Sounds like fun!
Their current average monthly bill is $91. After unplugging the garage fridge (and scheduling a recycling-center pick up time), their new monthly bill is $84. They cut their bill by 7%.
They'll happily take the $7 of extra cash, but they were hoping to save more than that. That's when little Suzy got a bright idea. "Hey Mom and Dad, what about solar energy?"
Yeah Suzy, what about solar energy?
"Hmm…it's probably too expensive." The Jacobs family wanted to at least consider it, so they connected with a few local solar installation companies through Cut My Bill. They were happy to hear that solar energy is affordable — in fact, it's less than half the cost it was just ten years ago.
They learned that 17 solar panels would fit nicely on the sunniest part of their roof (at 250 watts per panel, that's a 4.25 kW system). Their solar system would bring their average monthly energy usage from 844 kWh down to 467 kWh. And it'd bring their monthly TPU energy bill from $84 down to $54.
A federal tax credit would cover 26% of the solar system's cost.
Alas, solar energy isn't a slam-dunk investment under TPU (at least not for the Jacobs family). Including the payment on a home-equity loan used to purchase the solar system, the Jacobs family would be paying an extra $24 for energy in the first month. In other words, their post-solar utility bill + the solar loan payment would be 29% higher than their utility bill with just the other changes.
The solar system would save them more as energy rates go up. Meanwhile, their loan payment would stay the same over the 20-year loan term. …The solar investment wouldn't become cash positive until its 21st year.
In the interest of helping out the planet, increasing their property's value, and paying TPU less, the Jacobs family still went solar.
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Jacobs family conclusion
Overall, the Jacobs family will pay an extra $17 per month to experience the joy of powering their home with sunshine…and the satisfaction of paying TPU $37 less per month.
The Jacobs family is feeling good. Here they are monitoring their real-time solar production and utility energy usage.
Your game plan
We hope this article helped you decide whether to take action on your home's energy bill and environmental footprint. We wish you the best with your upcoming power moves (pun intended).
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