Want to save energy, save money on your power bill and help shrink South Carolina’s carbon footprint? | The S.C. Energy Office and Central Electric Power Cooperative, your co-op’s wholesale power provider, are giving a limited number of co-op homeowners an opportunity to participate in energy efficiency research studies that will help determine which measures work best in the state’s homes. The goal is to make co-op homes across the state more energy efficient, reducing how much fossil fuel is used to generate electricity and postponing the need to build new power plants. A survey of 36 older manufactured homes by the Colorado Division of Housing found that applying specific energy efficiency retrofit measures resulted in a 31 percent reduction in heating fuel use. If selected for this S.C. study, an energy efficient roof retrofit will be installed over your existing roof at no cost to you. Data on energy use will be collected before and after the upgrades. |
Members selected to participate by their electric cooperative will be notified by July 25, 2010. |
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