Congratulations to the Hinojosa family, winners of the $30,000 Grand Prize in the TXU Energy Power Saver Challenge
The TXU Energy Power Saver Challenge was designed to encourage Texans to discover and share new ways to manage energy consumption and costs, empowering them to save electricity and money. Three semi-finalist families competed to win the $30,000 Grand Prize. The winner was selected based on a combination of Web voting, improvement in their HERS Index rating, ingenuity, problem-solving, and energy-saving behavior changes.
To learn more on how the contest worked, click here to read the contest overview.
To meet each competing family and learn firsthand which energy efficiency techniques worked, as well as learning valuable energy-saving tips, click on the families below and watch real streaming video of their home improvement efforts.
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The Bright Family
City: Grapevine
Time in Home: 10 years
Year Built: 1985
Square Footage: 1750
Type: 1 story; 3 bd/ 2bth
Family Description: Ellen Bright lives in her 1985 home with her Golden Retriever, Jake. Her daughter, Megan, 22, and her boyfriend, Gregg, 22, are regular visitors.
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The Feld Family
City: Cypress
Time in Home: 2-1/2 years
Year Built: 1996
Square Footage: 1900
Type: 1 story; 3 bd/ 2bth
Family Description: Don and Leslie Feld and son, Cole, 6, live in Cypress in their 1996 home with their two family dogs, Hampton and Gidget.
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The Hinojosa Family
City: Rancho Viejo
Time in Home: 1 year
Year Built: 1982
Square Footage: 3200
Type: 1 story; 4 bd/ 3bth
Family Description: Abel and Maria Hinojosa live in their 1982 home in Rancho Viejo with children, Abel, 8, Sabrina, 6, and Samuel, 4.
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Want to see the types of improvements the contestants made to their homes and how you can learn from them?
No problem! We’ve created the TXU Energy Power Saver Challenge Simulator so you can get a good idea of what the HERS Index is and the impact that typical home upgrades have on the HERS Index — you can even select a home from the same decade as yours.
Click here to launch the simulator ›
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