Insulation – Part 2
Proper insulation is probably the most important factor in staying warm at an affordable cost. There are four basic types of insulation used in construction today: fibreglass, cellulose, rigid foam sheets, and spray foams. Each of these can provide a cost-effective solution towards insulating your home and insulating your wallet from energy costs [...]

Insulation
There are lots of ways of looking at your home, e.g. “Home is where the heart is”, “Home Sweet Home”, and so on. For many of us, our home is the biggest single financial investment we’ll ever make, so it had better be a good one.
For the engineer or building contractor, a home is a [...]

Houses without Furnaces
So far we’ve been quite lucky –  the fall has been mild, and it hasn’t been until the last few days that winter has really struck. However, with all the white stuff on the ground, temperatures are only going to fall, and our heating bills are only going to rise.
In the last article, [...]

Munich Takes the Initiative
Canada, and North America as a whole, have always lagged behind the Europeans regarding energy efficiency. Perhaps it’s because we’ve had it too cheap for too long. As we’ve never had to pay European prices for oil, gas and electricity, we don’t appreciate the true value of what we have, and [...]

by Richard Komorowski:
The Future of Cornwall
As everyone in the city knows (often to their own personal cost), Cornwall is going through economic hard times. The future may look bright, but at the speed we are going, that future is a long way away, and other events might overtake us first.
As I mentioned a couple [...]

Cornwall Council Ignores Green Option – Will Continue to Plunder Taxpayers
Progress continues on Mayor Kaneb Drive, the new road between Second Street East and Marlowe. This week, the street lights were installed.
Last month, I suggested in this column that the city install LED streetlights on this new road, which would have saved taxpayers about $87,000, [...]

2012 – It’s only a Myth
Today, as Canadians thanked their veterans for their sacrifices during the World Wars, Korea, UN Peacekeeping duties, and Afghanistan, similar ceremonies took place throughout the world. In a historic event in Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy noted that not only did French children cry for their lost fathers, but German children [...]

The Cornwall Free News is proud to welcome our latest sponsor.  EOSolutions.ca JM Vincelli & David Scott are authorized dealers for KVAR Energy Controllers.
If you have a farm, or small workshop, or simply have a lot of machinery running in your home this device is geared to save you some money.
There are a myriad of [...]

Mayor Kaneb Drive – An Opportunity to save Tax Dollars
The decision to build the bypass road from Second Street East to Marleau will be welcomed by most commuters. It will take a lot of the traffic heading to the industrial complexes in the north east of the city, relieving the delays on McConnell, and reducing [...]

Komorowski’s Korner – Richard Komorowski
Every Kilowatt Counts
For several years now, the Ontario Power Authority has been actively encouraging electricity conservation. One example was their very popular coupon scheme to promote the use of compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) in place of regular incandescent bulbs, which use about four times the [...]

It seems only yesterday that everyone was complaining about how hot it was and how the air-conditioning couldn’t keep up. Now people are putting up Halloween decorations, a sure sign that winter is just around the corner. Here are a few tips to save money on heating this winter.
Have the furnace [...]

Compact Fluorescent Lights – Are they Worth the Investment?
Compact Fluorescent Lights, or CFLs, are becoming more and more popular as they become cheaper to buy and more reliable. Most people are familiar with them now – they are the ones which look like a spiral. Compared to the old style incandescent [...]

Here’s the latest from our Columnist Richard Komorowski.   If you wish to contact Richard email us at info@cornwallfreenews.com
Meters and Retired People:
In last week’s column, I discussed the impact of Smart Meters on small business, using a convenience store as a model. However, as a reader kindly pointed out, I was being too [...]

Smart Meters – Will they kill Small Business? 

As we have discussed, the idea of Smart Meters is to encourage less daytime, i.e. peak, electricity consumption, in order to balance the electrical supply and demand throughout the province. This way, there will be less of a need to build new, expensive generating stations, and highly [...]

Here is the latest from our Columnist Richard Komorowski.  Today’s installment is titled:
Hydro One’s Revenue Grab
So far we’ve talked about Smart Meters and electricity prices, and how they can impact your household budget.
Hydro One is introducing Smart Meters in an effort to balance the grid load – in other words, they’re trying to get [...]

Here is the latest from our Columnist Richard Komorowski:
In the last column, we discussed how smart meters, which Hydro One is expected to start using in 2010 or 2011, are going to have a major impact on your electric bill. At the moment, Hydro One customers pay a fixed monthly service charge of $16.35 [...]

We’d like to introduce a new Columnist for us.    Cornwall resident Richard Komorowski is a freelance writer with a passion for energy and environmental issues dating back to the 60s, when he studied biology in university.

Here is Richard’s first column for us.  Lucky most of us live in Cornwall where we are served by Cornwall [...]