SI Receives Two National Awards
The Sustainability Institute gets awarded multi-year funding from two national foundations to work on climate adaptation…
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May, 2019
The Sustainability Institute gets awarded multi-year funding from two national foundations to work on climate adaptation…
The Sustainability Institute’s work is critical and one-of-a-kind!
It helps keep low-income families in their homes, trains at-risk youth and veterans with a 98% job placement rate
and it combats global warming and sea level rise by reducing our carbon footprint.
By reducing these expenses, more expendable income is available for other necessities. For instance, a household with monthly utility expenses of $300 can save around $1080 a year in utility expenses by achieving a 30% reduction in energy costs. It is not uncommon for these weatherizations results in a 20-30% energy savings monthly.
The overall goal of weatherizing a home is to reduce the necessary energy used to heat or cool a home. Residents pay less in utility expenses. This impact can be even greater in low and moderate income households where utilities can constitute as much as 30% or more of monthly income. After the work is performed, another HERS test is performed to ensure efforts have been successful and have achieved a satisfactory result.
Because funding is limited, it is important that resources are applied in a manner that will achieve maximum return on investment. Work is then performed by ECC members, often consisting of the installation of insulation, weather stripping, caulking and various other techniques used to “tighten” the building envelope.