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DecaturWISE launches Monday, April 25th! Improve the comfort of your home and save money by participating in City of Decatur’s energy efficiency rebate program, DecaturWISE (Worthwhile Investments Save Energy). This program adds to the benefits of Georgia Power’s Home Energy Improvement Program, and is designed to help residents make their homes, old or new, more energy efficient and comfortable through a comprehensive home performance energy analysis and the implementation of energy efficient upgrades.
Example of insufficient attic insulation
Home energy analysis is a great way to get professional advice on how your particular home, with all its unique characteristics, can be retrofitted to reduce your utility bills. Walking through your home with an auditor gives you a completely different perspective, and you might be surprised what you learn. Surprisingly, the most impactful improvements to reduce energy use in Decatur homes usually includes things we don’t often think about like insulation, duct sealing and air sealing. Lena Stevens, the City’s Resource Conservation Coordinator discussed many of these issues related to her own Decatur home in a blog post entitled The Art of Home Energy Efficiency back in November 2010.
With DecaturWISE you can earn up to $3,200 for improving the energy efficiency of your home.
- Georgia Power offers residents up to $2,200 in rebates based on the energy savings they achieve.
- DecaturWISE will award up to an additional $1,000 for homes achieving a 15 percent or greater improvement in energy savings. Total DecaturWISE and Georgia Power rebates cannot exceed 50 percent of the total improvement costs.
It’s easy to participate!
- Find a participating contractor – visit Decaturga.com [add link to program page here] and choose one of the approved contractors, all of which can offer Georgia Power and DecaturWISE rebates.
- Learn more about Georgia Power’s Home Energy Improvement program on their website.
- Complete the home energy analysis.
- Contractor will install energy saving upgrades.
- Complete post-installation inspection.
- Contractor applies for rebates.
- You receive money back!
For information visit the City of Decatur’s website or speak with members of the DecaturWISE team at the Decatur Green Fest, Saturday, May 7th at the Decatur Courthouse Square
For more information on DecaturWISE, call (678)729-SAVE (7283). or email us at decaturwise@clearesult.com.
The Home Energy Diet should be required reading of every home owner in the United States. For a variety of reasons — aging heating system, concern over potential fuel costs, and other reason’s — started looking into what I could be doing to improve my home’s energy efficiency. I bumped into Home Energy Diet in the library … and started to learn a lot and much of that learning has direct relevance to my own home. For example, Scheckel’s material and explanations highlighted to me some serious problems in my attic insulation and ventilation that I simply was not aware of — previously, I thought that it was reasonably well insulated. This drove me to a trip to the hardware store and an afternoon of work. With the first snow of the season, the ‘roof’ is proving that this work changed how my house is operating just how Scheckel’s description said it would.
Of great interest was the opening section, which provides a discussion of the ‘energy system’ in the United States, which is important background for understanding how one’s home links into the large system. As part of that, roughly 20% of the nation’s energy use is in homes. If every American home owner read this book and made minimal investments based on it, the nation could see a rapid cut in energy use — through efficiency rather than any reduction in lifestyle.
While everything in this book can be found elsewhere, this is a clear and relatively comprehensive discussion of key household energy issues. (And, if necessary, one can quickly track down more detail on other issues.) I’ve already recommended this book to over 50 people directly … And, while I originally got this from the library, I find it of such use that I’ve bought a copy to have around as reference material …