Color Penfield Green Blog​​

By Allen Hibner: November 27 th, 2023 – It has been quite a while since I published a new blog article in this continuing ALL-ELECTRIC-Life series. My wife and I have been living happily in our ALL-ELECTRIC home for almost 1½ years now after we installed our heat pump dryer; our 4th and final heat pump unit. See: NOW…We’re Living the ALL-ELECTRIC-Life ! We’ve also been enjoying our geothermal (ground source) heat pump system for 2½ years. It’s time to report on some of

By Allen Hibner: As of Friday, March 25th, 2022, with the installation of our new Whirlpool electric heat-pump clothes dryer, the Hibner household became ALL-ELECTRIC and 100% decarbonized in its daily energy usage within our 1950’s ranch home in Penfield. The image above points to the 10 areas of your home that can be electrified over time to reach your own milestone of being able to say that you are all-electric and fully decarbonized. I’d like to take you through, in wo

It has been exactly one year now that we have owned our 2020 Chevy Bolt EV. In a future article, I will report many take-aways from our...

By Allen Hibner: April 23rd, 2021- This image shows the installation crew at the end of digging the trenches. Once those were finished, they were able to then connect all six geothermal wells together and bring the closed geothermal loop HDPE input/output pipes directly into our home. If you are interested in a lot more detail and “live action” on how the trenches were dug, the six wells tied together and then how everything was backfilled at the end, watch this video on YouT

By Allen Hibner: April 22nd, 2021- This image shows THE FINAL DAY of drilling six (6) 100’ deep wells for our new WaterFurnace...