EnergySavvy.com is Capitol Hill’s new ‘clean tech incubator,’ as shared on CHS by scottcase. The two-year-old company moved to Capitol Hill from Lake Union last month from a building where they say they inhaled exhaust fumes from the car repair shop below them to the definitely more pleasant Coho Building on 12th Avenue between Pike and Pine.

The company employs less than 10 people and, according to spokesperson Amy Ring, about half of the employees live on Capitol Hill, which was part of the motivation for the move. Ring noted that they are a 100 percent bike, walk or bus company– none of them take their cars to work for the sake of energy efficiency. But Ring noted incentives for the move other than convenience.

“We wanted to move to the new neighborhood because of how vibrant it is out here and because there are other start-up companies in the area,” she said. “We saw this as a great place to grow our business.”

You can learn more about EnergySavvy’s new HQ and its history in a blog post on their site:

After lots of work, we’re now happily settled into our new space in the Coho Building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood (pictured here from 1937). The Coho Building was built in 1917 by Ira Harding, the founder of Seattle Empire Laundry. Today, we’re ready to proclaim the Coho Building a new center for cleantech in Seattle – on the basis of, well, at least two cleantech companies, EnergySavvy and our new neighbors, Tuusso Energy. Tuusso is a developer of mid-sized solar power plants – to supply utilities with clean, renewable power. We love solar power, especially when it’s implemented in conjunction with cost-effective energy efficiency programs.

Energy Savvy designs software to aid homeowners in making their houses more energy efficient. Using the company’s energy calculator, homeowners can estimate where they could be saving energy and money. The site does not yet offer an apartment energy calculator due in part to the fact that there are only so many changes renters can make to their homes, according to Ring. Renters cannot, for example, change their insulation to better control room temperature and cut heating costs. But for those that can take action, the company aims to be there to provide the tools and knowledge necessary to do so.

“A lot of times, home owners don’t really understand what energy efficiency is,” Ring said. “Energy efficiency is about having the right kinds of materials in your home, using less energy to get the same or more comfort.”

EnergySavvy’s new neighbors include the Northwest Film Forum to the south, the SPD’s East Precinct headquarters to the north and Revival Home and Garden at street level in the Coho. According to a recent posting on Facebook, Revival’s space is about to undergo an overhaul:

Our building is soon to undergo a giant remodel, and rather than store our large pieces, we are putting them ON SALE. Save up to 40% on sofas, cabinets, and other especially gigantic items.

We’re not entirely sure what the remodel entails and our e-mail to Revival Home was not answered. There are no construction permits on file for the address with the city.

The building is owned by Todd Shumsky and Michael Malone of Hunters Capital who purchased it in 2008 for $4.25 million according to county records. It wasn’t long ago that the peculiar Carburetor Specialty’s also operated in a space at the street level.

Capitol Hill’s start-up scene is filled with hundreds of smaller players, of course, but for every ten CHS-sized entities on the Hill, there’s one or two larger efforts making a play at Internet/mobile app/social networking billions. The biggest player in recent memory, iLike, was swallowed up by MySpace and moved downtown out of its Boylston office space last year.

There’s no telling if such riches await EnergySavvy. One familiar name behind the company is chairman and company co-founder Karl Siebrecht. Siebrecht helped lead aQuantive to a $6 billion acquisition by Microsoft in 2007 and is currently president and COO of online advertising service adReady.

Energy Savvy is looking to connect with other businesses on the Hill but Ring said they have not yet discussed outreach to Hill homeowners.