Energy Tune Up

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Your home's energy inspection comes with a comprehensive report detailing major opportunities for upgrading the energy efficiency of your home and estimates the savings and costs for each recommendation. It also provides information about financing and finding contractors. Implementing the recommendations will make your home more comfortable and more valuable, while lowering your energy bills.

Click on the report to the right to view sample of the kind of information you could expect with your energy inspection.

Home Energy Efficiency Improvement Tax Credits

Consumers who purchase and install specific products, such as energy-efficient windows, insulation, doors, roofs, and heating and cooling equipment in the home can receive a tax credit of up to $500 beginning in January 2006.

the US Dept of Energy anticipated tax and energy savings chart

Product Category

Product Type

Tax Credit Specification

Tax Credit

Windows

Exterior Windows

Meet 2000 IECC & Amendments

10% of cost not to exceed $200 total

Skylights

Meet 2000 IECC & Amendments

10% of cost not to exceed $200 total

Exterior Doors

Meet 2000 IECC & Amendments

10% of cost not to exceed $500 total

Roofing

Metal Roofs

Energy Star qualified

10% of cost not to exceed $500 total

Insulation

Insulation

Meet 2000 IECC & Amendments

10% of cost not to exceed $500 total

HVAC

Central AC

EER 12.5/SEER 15 split Systems EER 12/SEER 14 package systems

$300

Air source heat pumps

HSPF 9 EER 13 SEER 15

$300

Geothermal heat pump

EER 14.1 COP 3.3 closed loop

EER 16.2 COP 3.6 open loop

EER 15 COP 3.5 direct expansion

$300

Gas, oil, propane water heater

Energy Factor 0.80

$300

Electric heat pump water heater

Energy Factor 2.0

$300

Gas, oil, propane furnace or hot water boiler

AFUE 95

$150

Advanced main air circulating fan

No more than 2% of furnace total energy use

$50

 

For this and more information please download the article The Energy Policy Act of 2005: What the Energy Bill Means to You

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