The survey responses tend to confirm that raising adoption heat pump rates will be difficult and expensive.
Building Energy
The Commission on Clean Heat
The recent report from the Commission on Clean Heat identifies the challenges we face in decarbonizing building heat in Massachusetts and offers an inventory of options for addressing them.
Energy Survey Comments
Record of comments from home energy survey.
Home Energy Survey Results
Over 2000 people responded to our recent survey on building energy. View results here.
Cover Model
The Brownsberger two-family in Belmont is the cover model for the January 2013 issue of Home Energy Magazine. For the second year in a row we have achieved total building energy use roughly 85% below (i.e., 15% of) the New England per person average, below Thousand Home Challenge Levels. Read the full text of …
Thousand Home Challenge
In 2010, we did a deep energy retrofit on our home in Belmont. We tracked energy use in 2011 and found that we were 85% below the New England per person average. In so doing, we helped meet the “Thousand Home Challenge.” Check out the Thousand Home Challenge website and read about the challenge and …