Microsoft is trying to garner more interest in its Hohm home energy app through neighborly competition.
The software giant released on Wednesday the Hohm Score, a free Web application that judges a home's estimated energy efficiency based on its general size and location. With estimations already in place, Hohm has determined that homes with the worst scores are in Texas and Tennessee while the best are in Hawaii and Delaware.
The score is “calculated by comparing a home's actual and potential energy efficiency,” Microsoft said in a press release. It uses home energy-efficiency models generated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, which Hohm uses to create recommendations on how to cut utility bills.
Microsoft said that checking out a Hohm score will let people determine whether they are “energy misers” or “energy hogs” among more than 60 million houses in the U.S. The application generates an estimate of how energy is used in a home–heating, cooling, lighting, etc.–and offers an estimate for potential annual savings.
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