How does improving your home with energy efficiency upgrades save you money. Energy efficiency is not just talking about appliances and furnaces with efficiency ratings. It’s about what helps decrease energy costs in your home. A great example is insulation. With a little insulation in your home heating and cooling will cost more energy and money, but with lots of insulation you can save on energy and money. That’s one of the reasons most of the rebates are for insulation.
How does improving your home with energy efficiency upgrades decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?When energy is saved, we lower our GHG emissions helping us and the environment we live in. 13% of Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are caused by buildings in Canada. By improving our homes, we can decrease air pollution in Canada.
How does improving your home with energy efficiency upgrades increase home comfort? Improving your home with more insulation or new windows will make the home warmer in cold months and make air conditioning more effective in the warm months. Your furnace will run less and that means less noise. Air sealing will make your home less draft, and there will be more even temperature levels across your home.
Conclusion:
Energy efficiency home rebates are programs that are intended to encourage home owners to upgrade their homes. This is just touching the surface. There are lots more ways to improve your home, save money, lower GHG emissions, and make your home more comfortable. There is nothing to lose as the energy savings aren’t temporary but for the life of the upgrade.
List rebates:
– Attic insulation
– Basement insulation
– Crawlspace insulation
– Header insulation
– Wall insulation
– Exposed floor insulation
– Air sealing
– Furnace
– Boiler
– Hot water tank
– Windows
– Doors
– Ground source heat pump (GSHP)
– Air source heat pump (ASHP)
– Solar standby batteries
– Solar standby
– Foundation waterproofing
– Roofing underlay
– Crawlspace waterproofing
– Bonuses
– Energy audit
