Community Energy Efficiency Program Starts in Ravenna
MyNorthwest.com
If you feel a draft in your house or your furnace is balking, you might consider an energy audit.
Dozens of Ravenna and Wedgewood neighbors have signed up to participate in a program supported by a $4 million Community Energy Efficiency Program Grant being used to retrofit 2,000 homes and small businesses in Washington state.
Sustainable Works, a non-profit that helps homeowners reduce energy costs, is working with community members to retrofit their homes with the goal of lowering their energy consumption.
Sustainable Works conducts an energy audit on participants homes and helps them develop a plan that is meant to have retrofitting costs covered by energy savings from the improvements.
Steve Gelb, with Sustainable Works, says homeowners who get an upgrade can see up to 50 percent savings in heating bills.
Deadlines to submit an application to participate in the program are due by January 15th for Wedgewood and Ravenna residents.
Sustainable Works will be expanding the program to other areas of the Puget Sound after completing the pilot project in Ravenna.
