One of the main goals of the “Recovery through Retrofit” plan is to find ways to help people pay for energy efficient improvements. (Photo courtesy of the EPA)
The White House has released a plan that
intends to get more people to make their
homes and apartments more energy
efficient. Mark Brush reports:
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The White House has released a plan that
intends to get more people to make their
homes and apartments more energy
efficient. Mark Brush reports:
One of the main goals of the “Recovery through Retrofit” plan is to find ways to help people pay for energy efficient improvements. Some of these improvements can cost a bundle.
But, the White House says, there are ways to help. Christine Glunz is a spokesperson for The White House Council on Environmental Quality:
“We want to provide American homeowners with the opportunity to get this energy efficiency done, and get the retrofit done, without having to bear a major financial burden immediately.”
Glunz says the Obama Administration is pushing for new financing options. One they support is a local government loan program that is paid back through property taxes.
In addition to financing, the plan calls for an energy label for homes and apartments. It’s sort of like an Energy Star label, so renters and home buyers can figure out how efficient a building is.
The plan also calls for more trained workers to perform energy retrofits.
For The Environment Report, I’m Mark Brush.
