Energy Circle Updates

Download our Free White Paper: Social Media 101 for Home Performance Pros.

Will — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:58:54 +0000

Heard about how social media can help your business, but not sure how to get started? Or maybe you've tried to dig your toes in, but don't have the time to invest to make your efforts successful? Or maybe you just hate Facebook?

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In addition to the basics - how to set up your account, what information to put on your profile - we also discuss advanced techniques for creating content (so you never find yourself stuck with nothing to "tweet"), and for increasing your fan following, your "likes," and your "friends."

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If you find yourself jumping into the social media fray, be sure to connect with us: Facebook, Twitter.

Energy Circle Update: Our Blue Reserve Water & Coffee System.

Will — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:10:46 +0000

Early last month we moved into a new office space at the Sparhawk Mill in Yarmouth, ME. We love it because it's on a river, it's old, and it's gorgeous, and also because it's partially powered by hydro-electricity and it's a short commute for most of us on the team.

In keeping with our goals of minimal impact as well as practicality, we decided to get a water filtration system rather than the typical office "water cooler," because the typical office water cooler relies on water imported from somewhere else in a big truck (and that water is typically just filtered tap water, anyway). So we found a system called Blue Reserve. It filters and chills water, it's energy efficient, and it's sleek. It also comes with a connected single-serve coffee maker, which is a necessity around here, and which uses compostable coffee pods which is a great alternative to the Keurig-style containers that you have to throw away. (The external packaging of the pods, unfortunately, isn't recyclable but the boxes they come in are. We contacted Blue Reserve to ask them about that, and they're looking for a compostable packaging that has a good shelf life but haven't found a good option yet).

If you're looking for a good office alternative to the classic water cooler, we'd recommend Blue Reserve. It's working out pretty well for us. (The only downside is that it was started by Colby College students -- we have a Bates alum on staff, and I'm a Middlebury guy, so...*)

Anyway, off to brew another one! Happy Tuesday.

*Only kidding about the Colby thing. Cheers to these guys for starting a great company.

Energy Circle's New Home at the Sparhawk Mill!

Will — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:17:20 +0000

We're thrilled to announce that today is our first full day at the new Energy Circle headquarters in the historic Sparhawk Mill in Yarmouth, Maine. While we adored our previous space (a renovated post-and-beam barn in neighboring South Freeport, ME), we're certainly not complaining about the fact that we had simply outgrown it, and needed a bigger and more accommodating space.

Plus, the new office is amazing. I, personally, have admired the building since I first saw it in 2008 (I did some light carpentry here when working as a construction laborer after college and thought it was the coolest office building I'd ever seen.)

Check out some of the photos we just snapped over lunch:

Feel free to stop by whenever you're in the area -- we're right off Route 1, just 20 minutes north of Portland and about five minutes south of Freeport (famed home of L.L. Bean). (Just be sure to bring your fly rod!)

Photos from the 57 Depot Street Deep Energy Retrofit Groundbreaking Ceremony!

Will — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:53:57 +0000

For quite some time now, we here at Energy Circle (and, particularly, Energy Circle's CEO, Peter Troast) have been championing a Deep Energy Retrofit of an historic home in downtown Freeport, Maine. Yesterday, we finally broke ground.

The project is unique in a number of ways: it's one of the town's historic "Mallett Houses," built in 1886 by the industrialist Edmund Mallett as worker housing. It's been neglected for some 20 years, and is still standing largely because of the generosity of our good friend (and office mate) Peter Warren of Warren Construction Group (who thankfully landed the contract for the deep energy retrofit earlier this month). It's also located adjacent to, and owned by, Freeport Community Services, a great organization and an instrumental part of our community.

It's been a long and arduous process getting this project off the ground (the historic preservation community isn't thrilled with the concept of deep energy reductions), but that made it all the more satisfying when ground was broken yesterday. Energy Circle's CEO Peter Troast gave a short speech about the significance of the building's age in the context of our increased dependence on fossil fuels over the past 125 years, and the necessity that we move away from them in the next 125 (we'll post the video later).

For now, we're psyched about the project and about the ceremony, which featured hard hats, shovels and champagne -- all the essentials. Here are a few pictures:

Press Release: Freeport Community Services Moving Forward with 57 Depot Street Deep Energy Retrofit.

Peter Troast — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:28:22 +0000

Today, in conjunction with Freeport Community Services, we issued a press release (PDF) indicating that we are moving forward with the Deep Energy Retrofit of the historic Mallett House located at 57 Depot Street in downtown Freeport, Maine.

We're ecstatic to see this project getting off the ground; and further, that after a competitive bidding process, our good friends and office-mates at Warren Construction Group were awarded the contract. The project is expected to be completed in approximately seven months.

From the press release:

The project is particularly noteworthy in that, in addition to a full renovation of the currently dilapidated structure, it will be undergoing a “deep energy retrofit,” a renovation aimed at achieving 50% or more energy savings compared to a similar structure built to code. This reduction will be achieved primarily through improvements to the building envelope including exterior insulation, air sealing and high efficiency heating and cooling systems. Concerns from the historic preservation community resulted in an especially careful plan for the restoration that will entail exacting replication of historic exterior details, retention of reusable old materials, and minimal impact to historic plaster and molding on the building’s interior. The project is believed to be one of the first deep energy retrofits of a historically eligible building in the country.

As had been the plan from the outset, the full project will be open-sourced, with energy and construction details available here on the Energy Circle website, so be sure to check back for updates. It's been quite a journey as we've traversed the historic preservation processes to get to this point. In the interests of getting approvals, we've been much more quiet than is our instinct and wish, but you can count on that changing now. You can also keep tabs on the project on Facebook or Twitter.

Announcing Total Home Proctology: The New Exciting New Brand for Home Energy Efficiency

Peter Troast — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:22:14 +0000

Over the course of the five day ACI Affordable Comfort Conference taking place this week in San Francisco, 2000 residential energy efficiency experts convened to resolve the nagging problem of industry branding. 25 years ago, at the inception of ACI, the collective braintrust of energy efficiency retrofitting chose the dual terms "affordable comfort" and "home performance" as the central brands to describe the work of residential energy efficiency. This week, after extensive research, and 5 years of meetings, workshops and standards committees, the industry reached consensus that the Home Performance label has failed to resonate with mainstream audiences. Research found longstanding language problems have plagued the industry from a marketing standpoint (e.g. that insulation is not sexy, or that energy efficiency needs to be more emotional), and that a comprehensive rebranding was needed.

Following that finding, brand experts were charged with redeveloping a new central term to describe the critically important work of energy efficiency upgrades for the 124 million homes in the US. Key objectives for the new brand were to strike an emotional nerve, and appeal to people's physical/irrational nature. Something that people understand, something that resonates....something that hits them close to home -- right in the gut, if you will.

Without further ado, Energy Circle is proud to be the first to unveil the new and compelling brand of the industry formerly known as Home Performance.

Mallett House Deep Energy Retrofit Project Passes Town Project Review Board.

Peter Troast — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:25:24 +0000

Today, we’re ecstatic to announce that the Mallett House Deep Energy Retrofit project that we began spear-heading nearly two years ago just this week passed the Freeport, ME Project Review Board. The project - which aims to complete a deep energy retrofit of an historic 19th century home at 57 Depot Street in downtown Freeport - still has some hurdles to jump before the shovels hit dirt, but this is a big step in the right direction.

With help from Building Science Corporation, which has led the engineering and architectural aspects of the renovation, HUD, Scott Simons Architects, numerous private contributors, and the ever stalwart non-profit owner of the building, Freeport Community Services, the gleam in our eye two years ago was to open-source a deep energy reduction of an existing building--in this case, a badly dilapidated, neglected building--that is representative of a broad swath of New England architecture. Our aim is to prove that deep energy reductions and careful historic preservation can coexist, and to open source the entire process, shedding light on the difficulties, as well as the possibilities, that such a project entails.

The fact that it’s taken us this long to get the project passed the review board is, sadly, emblematic of a perceived conflict between advocates of historic preservation and building energy efficiency. Historic preservationists harbor a fear that the concept of superinsulation, which in existing buildings often demands adding exterior insulation, will do harm to the historic character of buildings. While we're empathetic to this concern, we take the view that if we don’t begin to address the gargantuan energy waste that the vast majority of our older buildings contribute to, historic preservation will become, in the long run, a luxury that we simply can’t afford. Particularly as the real estate market becomes more sensitive to the energy performance of buildings, it would be a needless tragedy for the entire swath of historic buildings to be uniformly classified as poor energy performers.

We've labored long and hard to do this right, and tried our very best to engage state and local historic preservationists. While we were successful addressing State and Federal concerns, and have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with them, our friends at the Freeport Historical Society remain doggedly opposed to our proposed renovation of this building.

At the core of the historic preservation concern is that a deep reduction--meaning getting the building's energy use down by more than 50%--almost always necessitates superinsulation, a process of expanding the depth (and thermal resistance) of the entire building envelope--walls, roofs and basement. In our case, after exhaustive consideration of the options, we determined the least destructive approach was to insulate out rather than in. There's much to be explained about this decision which I'll do in a subsequent post, but in the end the exterior siding is decrepit, and the moisture and air barrier is 125 year old damaged tar paper. That needs to be fixed, and given that, adding exterior rigid foam insulation is the way to go. We're proposing 2" of foam on the walls and 4" on the roof.

That one aspect of the project--so simple, cost effective and, from a building science standpoint, such an ideal wall--makes preservationists see red. The historic preservation community hates superinsulation like Congressional Republicans hate climate science.

From the outset, our view was that the two ideals of preservation and deep energy reduction could coexist in happy matrimony. Our architectureal drawings and CAD models show that the increased dimensions will not materially change the important streetview aspect of the building. We've invested significant time and money in addressing every last detail of trim and windows and materials to assure that the insulation expansion retains all of the lovely features of this sweet little house in precise proportion to it's original historical construction. This week, the Freeport Project Review Board, after thoroughly evaluating our plan down to the detail, decided that it was unanimously in favor of the project moving forward.

We’ve been loath to publish project updates thus far for fear of jinxing ourselves and winding up with a stalled project, but believe we’ve reached a point where we can start to discuss the Mallett House project openly.

The project is very, very close to getting underway. Building Science Corp has completed a parametric energy analysis; the engineering work is done; funding is largely in place. Our negotiations with State and Federal preservations agencies are complete. In March, we hope to clear the final hurdle of site issues such as parking and drainage. Then, because of the federal funding, we'll go out to competitive bid, select a builder, and get underway. Barring further delays, we'll start work this spring.

As the project unfolds we’ll start keeping you more regularly updated, so stay tuned in for some in-depth project information including envelope details, projected energy reductions and planned on-site renewable installations. For now, we’re happy to just get this project out into the open.

In the mean time, if you have any thoughts about the compatibility of energy efficiency and historic preservation, we’d certainly love to hear them.

Updated, 2-12-11. Added documents below:

Project Review Board Staff Report on 57 Depot Street Ordinance Compliance

Project Review Board Member Cliff Goodall's Analysis of Ordinance Applicability to Specific Historic Preservation Issues

Freeport Historical Society Letter to Aaron Shapiro, November, 9, 2010.

Live Blogging an Energy Retrofit.

Peter Troast — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:01:09 +0000

Today, just in the nick time for year end, our house is getting a comprehensive air sealing and insulation job. I've been waiting a long time for this, and excited for both the process and, obviously, a more energy efficient and comfortable house afterwards. Upright Frameworks, our friend Josh Wojcik's firm, which has the reputation of being the most thorough firm in the state for complex air sealing work, is doing the work. The audit was done by DeWitt Kimball of Complete Home Evaluations. Using Conservation Services Group's Real Home Analyzer, we're modeled to achieve a 29% thermal reduction and this qualifies us for the Efficiency Maine Home Energy Saver rebate of $2500. We're also planning to take advantage of the now expiring $1500 federal tax credit. We're starting at 3242 CFM50--a fairly leaky house.

5:30 am -- I'm up early clearing boxes and junk out of knee walls so the guys can access the source of the air leaks. But the house seems abnormally cold, even for our low nighttime setpoints. How ironic is this: on the day of our weatherization, our oil tank has run dry. Apparently, since our last fill up in mid October, we've burned through all 275 gallons faster than any other period before. Yep, 275 gallons in 75 days--confirming, for us, that this is a great time to get this work done.

6:15 am -- Opening up all the hatches and doors to the knee walls that are so typical of Cape Style construction like ours, I don't need a blower door to feel the flow. And it's not much of a weather day--no wind and high 20's at the moment.

7:15 am -- The crew arrives and it might as well be an assault party. Trucks, trailers and all manner of tools and gear. I've been forewarned to supply the crew with coffee and I'm ready.

7:30 am -- Task one is to remove the PINK in the attic. Our house, the core of which was built in the early 80's, has the classic cape rafters--about 10 feet of tail from the attic deck to the soffit. All the batt insulation is stapled and, in the brilliant way that builders of that era accomplished cold roofs, held back from the roofing by 2" strapping.

7:40 am -- The favored tool of high tech energy efficiency? A homemade handle with a sort of boat hook on the end that is used to rip the batt insulation out. (Note: one of the biggest cost factors in our job is the labor of ripping old, poorly performing insulation out.)

8:30 am -- Oh the irony of this--two more trucks pull in to the driveway simultaneously. The Downeast Energy oil truck to replenish 275 gallons of fuel oil. And a flatbed with 5 pallets of cellulose insulation.

8:45 am -- Oil tank filled. 249.9 gallons at $3.15/gallon. $786.94 for 2.5 months of late fall and winter. (Note: oil provides our heat and domestic hot water. Two adults, two kids, one non-showering Jack Russell Terrier.)

8:55 am -- The oil delivery can't get the line to bleed so we need a service call. Fortunately, my friend Pat Coons at Revision Heat comes to the rescue and can have a guy over right away to do the bleed AND work their boiler system optimization magic. Stay tuned for how that goes. Nothing like getting it all done in one day.

9:50 am -- Josh has an amazing crew. How many contractors have you seen that run from the house to the truck when they need something? Each guy has a specialty--and is passionate about what is not easy work. Zach, ace fibreglass yanker outer and cellulose dense packer, tells me he's allergic to the PINK. Dave seems to be the small space guy, and claims if it's 1' by 1' he can get in. (A point of pride amongst all of them is their ability to get into tiny spaces.) We have a funky connector space between old house and new addition that isn't that small, but when I've been in there it's tight and claustrophobic. He's been in there air sealing and prepping for cellulose for almost two solid hours. When I ask how our house compares, his answer is "cake walk."

11:30 am -- As our contractors will attest, I've harassed them endlessly leading up to this job about material selection. My concerns are health and IAQ, embodied energy, and global warming potential (GWP.) In the end, the choices we made aren't perfect, but using David White's soon to be released GWP calculator (that measures the net benefit of CO2 reduction of various materials on various assemblies) I was able to come to terms with some of our less than ideal material choices. The primary material in this project is recycled newspaper cellulose insulation from National Fiber, which is treated with a natural mineral borate as a fire retardant. Cellulose is the ideal material for our particular situation, and with its 82% recycled content and low embodied energy, I will sleep well at night. In a couple of spots, they've needed to use XPS board foam but only minimally. XPS from Dow, the blue board foam, is awful at a GWP of 1430 times CO2. However, even with those horrid numbers, we're only using a little, and it nets out significantly to the positive in David's spreadsheet. For the air sealing, they're using fire retardant caulk and Todol medium expanding spray foam. The latter is also a GWP baddie, the blowing agents essentially the same as the XPS, but for some many applications, such as a one inch drywall gap in our knee wall, it's just the perfect material. This total usage of this is quite small--only 2 cans so far. Other materials are Insulweb, some galvanized around chimneys and that's it.

12:15 am -- Old school, new school. When our house was built, the conventional wisdom was to keep roofs cold. Soffit vents let air in, perfect vents or, in our case, strapping provided a place for air to flow that, at least in theory, would prevent ice damming. It's all different now. One of the first things Josh and crew did was tear out the soffit vents and seal them off. Then, from above, dense pack cellulose down the rafters. They're not anywhere near done, and already this house feels less drafty.

1:45 pm -- I’m on a conference call giving a demo of Energy Circle PRO, and someone’s got a sawzall going that’s rattling the entire house.

2:35 pm -- Off my call and upstairs to see what was the matter.... In order to access a part of the knee wall that had no other entry point, the crew gave themselves permission to hack a hole in my daughters’ sheetrock wall to gain access. Troast is the energy guy and he’ll want it done properly, was their rationale. And they were right. I continue to be extremely impressed with how thorough this team is and how passionate they are about doing the job right. Upright Frameworks’ quality reputation is well deserved.

3:00 pm -- As much as I’ve written, talked and been around energy retrofits, I’m reminded of what an extensive operation this is. Six guys all playing a key role, each clearly knowing their trade, and everyone hustling his ass off. It really is an assault. And yet, in the span of one day, the building performance of this house is about to be changed radically.

3:15 pm -- Some decisions to make. There are skylights in our roof, and no access to the rafters beneath them. It’s a pain to cut a hole or drill up through the soffit to get in there, but Josh wants to do it right. Rock on I say.

3:30 pm -- They don’t call it dense pack for nothing. Some of the completed rafter cavities in the kneewall, held in place by Insulweb, feel as hard as a punching bag. Josh says this isn’t necessary, but I like the way it feels. I really like the fact that the guys are pushing the envelope for our house.

4:30 pm -- The technician from Revision Heat just reporting on the results of his boiler optimization. (Note: we have a relatively new and fairly efficient Hearthstone with Riello burner, so improving on it is no cake walk.) He was able to reduce stack temperature from 439° to 350°, meaning a helluva lot of wasted heat is no longer going up the chimney. He also got the CO levels from 9.5% to 12.5%, which translates to a cleaner burn and less fuel use. Nozzle size was lowered from .85 to .75. Overall the total efficiency measure went from 83% to 87% which, according to the State of Maine, translates to an 8% reduction in fuel use. Not too shabby.

6:31 pm -- Josh just left. We're going to finish up in the morning--a few tricky locations still to be tackled and, of course, the blower door test to see how we did. I'll report in the morning. Awesome day. Thanks to the Upright Frameworks crew for everything so far.

Day Two

5:45 am -- The project isn't done, but with some of the major air sealing and insulation pieces complete, I just enjoyed the first winter's night in my NEW house. Of course, the Energy Circle house lives by programmable thermostats and setback temperatures. We're also Mainers that like it cool when we sleep. Our settings are: Comfort (or daytime)--67°; Economic (or night)--62° downstairs, 59° upstairs. Waking this morning my first observation is the noticable change in the evenness of the house's temps. As I write this, which is before our day temps click in, it is a uniform 65° almost everywhere. Even the basement ping pong room, which only has a stub of our hydronic system, is at 57° where it would normally be 51°. The top of the second floor stairway, usually the place where you could feel the stack effect in your face, is nearly still. I am thinking hard about how the customer mindset (me in this instance) values comfort. Right now, I'd say worth every nickel that this project cost.

6:06 am -- A friend reminded me that our Interconnected House Video would be a good addition to helping y'all understand the challenges of our house prior to this retrofit.. Here you go:

8:00 am -- The final parts of the job include some complicated shed roof insulation (which would have been easy to insulate when it was built; and now is not quite so); insulating the kneewall in my daughter's bedroom (which required cutting a 2x2 hole in the drywall, and some serious contortionism); and a final clean-up and test-out.

9:50 am -- As Will and I sit here at the kitchen table, working away on the last day of the year, Dave is immediately above us air sealing and insulating a kneewall. No better way to assess the thoroughness of an air sealer than by listening to him slave away 5 feet above your head...

10:30 am -- Setting up the blower door, and Josh is getting nervous...

11:00 am -- The initial numbers look like we've cut 1,000 CFM off the previous 3,242. Now the crew is revisiting all the sites to look for and deal with additional air leaks.

11:40 am -- Josh and I have just combed every square inch of the house with infrared camera in hand and, in spite of the significant reduction, there are leaks that he's not satisfied with. Not surprisingly, those leaks are in our home's unique and tricky spots: where the old part of the building connects with the new, in kneewalls, and other areas that the old-school builders that constructed the house left leaky and uninsulated.

1:00 pm -- During the final test-out, we're seeing 2,100 CFM -- a 35% reduction from our starting point of 3,242. That's about average for the Upright Frameworks team. "Not bad for a couple punks from the woods," says Josh, leader of the best, most thorough air sealing team in the state of Maine.

Two Helpful New Articles on Energy Efficient Home Lighting (Just for You!)

Will — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:12:05 +0000

Energy efficient lighting has come a long, long way in the last few years. LEDs, heralded by some as the great hope of energy efficiency, were until recently a moonshot technology celebrated by geeks alone. Ten years ago, CFLs were lambasted for poor light quality, slow start-up time and flickering. Now, they are available in a wide range of colors, can be "instant on," and flickering has been all but eradicated.

Still, finding the best energy efficient home lighting is often a case of just knowing what to look for. That's where we come in.

We've just published two new articles on energy efficient lighting in our "Learn" section: The first, a glossary of lighting terms, defines the most essential lingo to help you pick the right bulb, with the best color temperature and the appropriate wattage for your application. Knowledge is power, people.

The second solves the long-standing mystery of dimmability in energy efficient lighting. These light bulbs can malfunction or die when installed on the wrong dimmer switches (the horror!). So we thought it'd be useful to create a comprehensive guide to dimmable energy efficient home lighting. It covers everything from why normal CFLs shouldn't be installed on dimmers, to the best dimmer switches for LEDs, to the best dimmable CFLs on the market.

We hope you enjoy—and maybe learn a little something.

P.S. Lighting experts, engineers or designers with anything to add, we'd be thrilled if you'd chime in in the comments section.

PowerHouse Dynamics eMonitor Unboxing, Installation and First Impressions

Peter Troast — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:46:53 +0000

Yesterday we installed the the PowerHouse Dynamics eMonitor, the most recent entrant in the home energy electricity monitoring category for consumers. The eMonitor, in addition to providing whole house data on your electricity use, is unique in that it also measures each circuit. This means you can isolate and see energy data for specific appliances, individual rooms, and anything else that lives on its own circuit.

We've only been seeing the data for 18 hours, so stay tuned for more analysis of the circuit by circuit functionality as our family immerses in this new wealth of energy information. Early indicators are interesting, however. The kids' rooms can now be tracked individually. My daughter, who doesn't like to lose to her brother at anything, got dressed in the dark this morning.

The components are efficiently packaged and well protected. Interior packaging is corrugated. No plastic.

The brains of the product are the eMonitor itself. Black tube provides a convenient way of organizing the wires after installation.

The components are: 1) the eMonitor; 2) two spring loaded 200 amp sensors for the main power that measure the entire usage; 3) 22 split core circuit by circuit sensors (9 50 amp and 13 20 amp); 4) an AC power adaptor; 5) ethernet cable for connecting eMonitor to your router; 6) a very thorough and well written Installation Guide. (In addition to these parts, it also comes with some handy bits and pieces to help with the install--wire ties, screws, a gasket for the electric box and a tube to organize the wires. The only tool required is a screwdriver.)

Two spring loaded sensors are used to measure the whole house electricity (or that going to the particular box if you have a multi-box set up). The spring loaded jaws simply clip around the main incoming power lines, directly over the insulated part of the wire.

The circuit sensors are smaller and clip around the insulated wire or wires to each circuit with a simple clasp system. The base system comes with 22 total sensors.

Here's the complete setup once all the circuits are connected to the device. The wires are then connected with a simple locking snap clip to the corresponding channel on the eMonitor.

Using the pull ties and provided tube, it's easy to organize and condense the wires for a neat, orderly look.

Here's the final install, with cover back on (phew!) and showing the AC adapter and ethernet cable out to the router.

Note on installation:

The folks at PowerHouse Dynamics say the install should only be done by a licensed electrician and we agree. (Depending on jurisdication, this may be code.) Though it is an extremely simple set up, it does require removing the panel from your electric box. Of course, all the work is done with the main power off. That said, it is extraordinarily simple and quick. The only part of the process that takes any time at all, really, is thinking through the circuits, organizing the channels and being sure you record which is which for later entry into the setup wizard. My guess is a typical electrician doing this setup would be in and out in 30-45 minutes.

Stay tuned for more information as we begin to use the eMonitor and integrate its information into our lifestyle and behavior. And we're planning more video too -- we shot the entire install.

For those wanting more information about eMonitor, including pricing and availability, please click here.