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Weather funds are ‘an angel’
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by GMS Editor in Newsflash, ShowOnLatestPanel
Utah receives $30 million for weatherizing homes from the federal stimulus act.
By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 12/16/2009 05:19:38 PM MST
When Congress put $5 billion into the federal stimulus act early this year to help boost home energy efficiency, it might have had Sandra Kahn in mind.
Kahn fell last year in her Sugar House home, breaking her neck and spending three months and four days in the hospital recovering.
Coming home, she found electric and gas bills that were just too much to handle on a monthly disability allotment.
But after a call to the Salt Lake Community Action Program in Salt Lake City and a little paperwork, Kahn found her home transformed. Leaky doors and windows were plugged, her attic and crawl space insulated, and incandescent bulbs were replaced with spiral fluorescent bulbs.
“What it means to us is that usually in the past if we did 300 homes it was a good year. Now we’re hoping to get to about 1,000 homes,” says Dale Canning, deputy director of the program.
The program includes an energy audit of a home — checking to see where hot air might be leaking out, for example — and potential fixes such as new windows, insulation and perhaps even new water heaters or furnaces through partnerships with Rocky Mountain Power and Questar, Canning says.
Kahn says she’s already seeing the difference. Her heating bills alone last year were more than $300, she says, but now are significantly less. Her previous electric bill was $12.
“The house is so much warmer now,” she says. “It’s like God sent an angel down to watch over me.”
Dan
22. Dec, 2009
The energy audit performed on our home back in late 2007 would not have happened had we not known about the government subsidization program to reduce its cost to us.
This also made us more interested in home energy and water conservation. We had always thought that only out of our price range fancy devices like solar panels or wind tubrines to generate electricity make a major difference. We were wrong.
Its the little things, plenty of them which can make as much or more of of a difference to reduce a household’s electricity, natural gas, home heating oil and water utility bills.
http://dailyhomerenotips.com/energy-conservation/
Since that time we have collected more than 500 home energy and water suggestions and made them free at the above site, containing:
400+ are simple and easy
275+ cost nothing to do
115+ electricity reduction tips
110+ home heating reduction tips
I hope helps others as it has helped us.
Dan