Update: To further encourage Weston households to take advantage of December's no-cost Home Energy Assessment sign-up promotion, Sagewell has announced that it will give an extra $250 for every 50 sign-ups a school gets, on top of the $10 per household donation already in place.
Choose a school to support and click its link to get started...
Weston High School: http://www.sagewell.com/whs
Weston Middle School: http://www.sagewell.com/wms
Field School: http://www.sagewell.com/wfs
Country School: http://www.sagewell.com/wcs
Woodland School: http://www.sagewell.com/wws
The Details
- Any Weston household can sign up using the links above. A household can only be associated with one of the links so families with kids in more than one school will have to choose which school to support.
- Clicking on the link will take you to Sagewell's website where you just enter your address (no invitation or other codes needed), click the Find Savings Now button, and then fill in the information in the resulting form. Make sure to leave the box checked that requests a no-cost in-home energy assessment. You will also be eligible to receive a free thermal image report of your property, if available from Sagewell.
- Once you submit the online form you will be contacted within a few days to set up an appointment with a qualified energy efficiency firm to conduct an in-home assessment. The assessment itself should take place by the end of January, 2014 to get credit for signing up for this promotion. Assessments are free and there is no obligation to do any follow-up work. You will also receive an e-mail within 5-10 working days with instructions on how to view the online thermal image report for your home.
- Sagewell will track all sign-ups using the urls above and will reward each school with $10 per HEA appointment to spend as the school sees fit. Each school will determine how their funds will be spent, with special consideration given to environmental and "green" projects.
- Contact Rudy Ruggles with any questions or concerns.
What is a Home Energy Assessment?
HEAs are free in-home evaluations of household energy use, conducted by state-licensed specialists, and paid for by money that is already assessed on every National Grid and NSTAR customer’s energy bills. The program is called MassSave and is managed by the state. Essentially, everyone has already paid for an HEA, so they might as well get the benefits. Upon completion of the HEA, the homeowner gets a report containing ways they could save energy and information about any rebates and incentives that can help them defray resulting up-front costs for investments like insulation and heating system replacements. Again, there is no obligation to actually do any of the work suggested. Who is Sagewell?
Sagewell, Inc. is a Massachusetts-based thermal imaging company that helps connect homeowners with HEA resources. When someone signs up through their site, Sagewell can answer any preliminary questions and determine which energy efficiency company should come to the person’s house to do the assessment (generally Next Step Living here in Weston, although the homeowner can request a different one). As an additional benefit to those who sign up, because of the Weston Climate Group’s collaboration with them, Sagewell has thermal images of most Weston homes (taken from the street) and will send the homeowner a thermal image report if Sagewell has the images on file (see example below). Sagewell benefits from people signing up through their site and is happy to show their appreciation by supporting Weston's schools. For the curious, here are a couple of links to news stories about Sagewell:
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