Your home upgrade roadmap: a more comfortable home, lower bills and a cleaner future.
Three proven steps to transform your home, improve your indoor air quality, save money from day one and dramatically reduce your carbon footprint.
Step 1 – Get a home energy audit
A certified auditor inspects your home top to bottom, using blower door tests, thermal imaging, and combustion safety checks to find exactly where energy (and money) is being wasted, and what upgrades will deliver the biggest return. You’ll receive a prioritized action plan tailored to your home.
Step 2 – Air seal & insulate
Most homes lose 25 – 40% of their heating and cooling through cracks, gaps, and thin insulation. Sealing air leaks around windows, doors, pipes, and attic penetrations and upgrading insulation, keeps conditioned air where it belongs. The result: fewer drafts, steadier temperatures, and dramatically lower energy bills year-round.
Step 3 – Electrify your home
Switch from gas appliances to efficient electric alternatives: a heat pump for heating and cooling, a heat pump water heater, and induction cooking. These technologies are two to four times more efficient than combustion appliances, eliminate indoor air pollution from burning gas (gas stoves are the #1 cause of indoor air pollution in homes), and let you run your whole home on clean energy, now or when you’re ready to add solar.
And did someone say REBATES? That’s right, the state of Colorado and Xcel Energy are both offering lots of rebates on all of this, from covering a portion of the cost of the audit (potentially even making it free), to potentially over half of air sealing and insulation, to a heat pump, the list goes on and on.
If all of this sounds good to you, please contact Go Electric Colorado (https://goelectriccolorado.org/contact-us/) to schedule a free home energy consultation with an expert.
Thanks to Ross Kelman for this good information on energy audits and free home energy consultations. Ross is a member of the Lowry Climate Action Committee, a Certified Electric Coach with Rewiring America and a Lowry resident.