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Oliver Shaw is a building energy consultant and tech writer who splits his time between auditing commercial HVAC systems and writing plainly about home energy efficiency. He spent eight years doing building performance assessments before getting frustrated with how smart home marketing systematically overstates savings, and started writing to correct the record.
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