Heating and Cooling
Heating and cooling efficiencies
Money saving green tips and practices from Green Energy Consumers
Save hundreds of dollars per year on your oil bills
Look into cleaner heating/cooling systems
Consider heat pumps, a much more efficient way to heat and cool your home and that can further help reduce emissions with greener electrical energy - this is a recording of a Green Energy Consumers Heat Pump webinar from Jan. 2023
Heat pumps - an introduction
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Useful links
HeatSmart Alliance - this non-profit organization offers advise on adopting heat pumps
To find out more about your heat pump options
Start with a Mass Save audit, if you haven't had one within the last year or two - in order to qualify for the state incentives, you need to have an audit and complete the recommended insulation work
Contact a few Mass Save installers to come to your home - they will make recommendations and provide estimates
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Contact Green Energy Consumers, a non-profit serving MA and RI, who has more heat pump information and has a partner (Abode Energy) who provides advice
To understand more about heat pumps
This article from How Things Work has a lot of easy-to-understand information about heat pumps
You can use a heat pump for your hot water too - hot water heat pumps are part of this article from the Sierra Club
This Department of Energy article is also helpful