Attention Maryland Home Owners in the Pepco Service Territories

From Comprehensive Home Energy Audits priced at only $100, to rebates up to $1,200 for energy efficiency improvements, to appliance rebates, to HVAC service and equipment rebates, to free programmable thermostats, to CFL discounts, and more... Pepco brings one of the most aggressive energy efficiency programs in the country to its Maryland customers.
 
ecobeco provides $100 Home Energy Audit to Pepco Maryland customers.  This is not a rebate program.  You pay us $100 at the time of the visit.

After your audit, you can receive a 15% cash rebate from Pepco for professionally installed air sealing and insulation augmentation up to $1,000 in benefit.  Plus, you can receive $200 for duct sealing.  Best of all, ecobeco will handle the rebate process for you free of charge.

Combined with up to $800 in savings for an air conditioner or $750 for a heat pump replacement through the appliance rebate program, ecobeco can help you find the best deals on making energy efficiency a priority for 2010!

The goal of the Home Energy Savings Program is to get home owners like you to take action on energy conservation. That means fixing up your homes, changing out your light bulbs and shower heads, and more. Pepco is obligated by the EmPower Maryland law to reduce energy consumption in the State of Maryland by 15% by 2015. 

Meanwhile, ecobeco has been working hard with our contractor partners to enhance and accelerate the amount of time it takes for you to receive your audit report and a firm proposal after your audit is complete. Our goal is to make it easier for you to say "YES" to energy efficiency improvements.

Sign up at http://www.ecobeco.com/about_schedule_pepcomd.asp to reserve your $100 energy audit.

Note: Customers who buy energy from Clean Currents or other alternatives are eligible to participate in the program.  You qualify if you 1) receive a bill from Pepco; and 2) have either a heat pump or air conditioning; and 3) live in a single-family home or town home (units in dwellings with more than 4 units do not qualify for this program).
 
Visit Pepco's consumer site for more information at:

http://www.pepco.com/energy/conservation/meiin/

NOTE:  If you are an existing ecobeco audit customer in the Pepco territory, please give Brian Toll a call directly at 240 396 2141 x704 or email Brian to discuss how you can take advantage of the Pepco Home Energy Savings Program.

Maryland Allegheny Power Customers - ecobeco is an authorized provider for the Watt Watchers Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program. 

You can have a FREE Home Energy Check-Up performed by ecobeco, which is a non-instrumented walk-through of the house.  This product is designed to help you understand whether an audit is worthwhile for you and will give you tips on easy do-it-yourself items.  You'll get 6 CFLs for free as well. 

To schedule your appointment, call Allegheny's Watt Watchers Hotline at 1.877.928.8928 and ask for a Home Check-Up and ask for ecobeco to be your provider.  We are currently servicing Allegheny customers in Northern Montgomery County.

ecobeco also offers $140 Comprehensive Home Energy Audits for Allegheny Maryland customers.  See more information below.

ecobeco is coming to The 29th Annual Takoma Park Street Festival on Sunday, October 3rd 10am-5pm on Main Street Takoma Park.

 

This is a multi-cultural music and crafts festival held in downtown Old Takoma. Join us on the first Sunday of October and enjoy the lovely Main Street area for a day filled with music on 3 different stages, a wealth of arts & crafts, local business information booths, and family events and fun! ecobeco is confirmed as a local merchant participating in the 2010 Street Festival.

 

Come by our booth and learn more about energy efficiency and sign-up for an energy efficiency appointment for your home. Click here for festival details

Water in your home can come from many sources. Water can enter your home by leaking or by seeping through basement floors. Showers or even cooking can add moisture to the air in your home. The amount of moisture that the air in your home can hold depends on the temperature of the air. As the temperature goes down, the air is able to hold less moisture. This is why, in cold weather, moisture condenses on cold surfaces (for example, drops of water form on the inside of a window). This moisture can encourage biological pollutants to grow.

There are many ways to control moisture in your home:

Starting July 30th, Maryland consumers can receive rebates on major household appliances purchased in four additional appliance categories, each related to cooling. The purpose of these incentives is to encourage residents to replace outdated, inefficient appliances in their homes with ENERGY STAR-rated equivalents, helping end users both save money and reduce strain on the electrical grid.

The expanded incentives program, which is still managed by your local utility, offers rebates on purchases or installations of central air conditioning units ($500), air source heat pumps ($500), room air conditioners ($25) and freezers ($100).  The appliance must be purchased/installed on or after July 30, 2010 to qualify.  The appliance must meet efficiency standards, which are described on your utility's website.

This expansion supplements existing incentives for the purchase of qualifying super-efficient clothes washers ($100), refrigerators ($50), and electric heat pump water heaters ($300).

Attention Pepco Customers:  You can combine the Maryland rebate with the Pepco HVAC Efficiency Program to save up to $800 on AC or Heat Pump replacements.

Program details, additional information and terms and conditions as well as rebate forms are available at http://energy.maryland.gov/appliancerebateprogram.asp.  From this site, customers of Allegheny Power, BGE, Delmarva, Pepco and SMECO can click on the link to their utility's website.

ecobeco has been awarded the 2009 Contractor of the Year for Maryland Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® by Maryland Energy Administration. ecobeco provides $100 Energy Audits to Maryland Pepco home owners through their Home Energy Savings Program.  ecobeco also provides $140 Energy Audits to Maryland Allegheny Power home owners through their Watt Watchers program, and provides audits to Baltimore Gas & Electric customers through the BGE Smart Energy program.  Our success in all three programs have contributed to this hard-earned honor.

ecobeco's Co-Founder and Vice President of Auditing Services Reuven Walder says, "ecobeco's focus on customer service starts with our highly detailed Home Energy Audit that follows the strict Building Performance Institute and Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® standards.  Then, our Comprehensive Report prioritizes what customers should do, how much it will cost, and what their savings will be. Finally, we facilitate the process of selecting contractors to do the work at the house.  We take complicated stuff and make it easy for home owners to take action and solve their energy and comfort issues.  This award recognizes the hard work of ecobeco's team day in and day out and our commitment to quality."

Don't worry if you're not a Pepco Maryland customer, there are programs for other home owners as well.

1. Maryland BGE Customers - Through our partnership with Energy Services Group, ecobeco provides a full suite of solutions as part of the BGE Smart Energy program, which includes incentives for making your home more energy efficient.  Click here to view the incentives from this program, and click here to schedule your appointment with ecobeco.

2. Maryland Allegheny Power Customers - ecobeco is an authorized provider for the Watt Watchers Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program.  That means your audit costs only $140 if you agree to the installation of CFL bulbs, or $180 if you don't.  You can also have a FREE Home Energy Check-Up performed by ecobeco, which is a non-instrumented walk-through of the house.  This product is designed to help you understand whether an audit is worthwhile for you and will give you tips on easy do-it-yourself items.  Our service area is limited to northern Montgomery County. Click here to make an appointment.  After your audit, customers with electric heating qualify for additional incentives for doing air sealing or insulation work.

3. Virgina Customers - The Energy Efficiency rebate is again fully subscribed.  At this point, the appliance rebate program (see below) is the only state program accepting new customers.  There are no incentives at this time for audits or retrofits.  Don't fret, our Comprehensive Energy Audit is still a great value, and provides you with the knowledge you need to make smart investments in your home.  Click here to make an appointment.

4. DC Customers - Similar to Virginia, except the District government provides free energy audits to home owners.  These audits provide a basic understanding of energy issues, but do not include IR camera scans, combustion safety testing, energy modeling, customized reporting, follow up time with your auditor, referrals to get the work done, a free second visit after the work is done, etc.  Currently, the free audit has a waitlist for several months and last we checked audits had been suspended.  DC residents can act now by making an appointment with ecobeco by clicking here.

Attention Maryland, DC and Virginia Residents!

The Department of Energy has launched the Appliance Rebate Program across the United States. Each state is implementing the program in a slightly different way (of course). As with other programs with fixed buckets of money, these are first come first served programs, and the duration of the program will simply depends on how long they have funds available to distribute, so be sure to act fast.

In Maryland, the programs are being run by each utility directly. Click HERE to go to the Maryland Energy Administration's Appliance Rebate Program Website to learn how to obtain your rebates or click HERE to look at a PDF of the press release. The rebate programs have started, and the benefits apply to purchases made on or after April 22, 2010. 

In DC, click HERE to view the District Department of the Environment web page and sign up to be notified when DDOE's appliance rebate program begins. This program is scheduled to start in late May.

In Virginia, click HERE to view the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy web page.  Rebates are eligible only on appliances purchased after April 28th, and are limited to one appliance per household.  The Virginia program has started, so reserve now!

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