You can learn more about it in the Vermont Transportation Funding Options Report.

We'll keep you posted as things develop.

Home  Energy Challenge Training

February 11, 2013 - 5:00-9:00pm 

Colchester High School, Cafeteria, 131 Laker Lane, Colchester

Efficiency Vermont, in partnership with the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network and regional partners, will be conducting a series of trainings for volunteers participating in the Vermont Home Energy Challenge. The purpose of these trainings is to provide volunteers with the information and knowledge they need to effectively reach out to community members.

All trainings are from 5:00-9:00 pm, with dinner and socializing from 5-6:00. Below is an agenda and schedule for the training. The training is open to any individual regardless of where they live.

Agenda:

• Dinner and Socializing
• Welcome and Agenda Review
• Overview of the Vermont Home Energy Challenge
• Building Science 101 (how homes lose heat and how to stop it)
• Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program
• Key Message to Community Members (talking points on how to sell efficiency)
• Conducting Door-to-Door/Phone-a-Thons - practicing your script
• Conducting Home Energy Visits
• Logistical Issues
• Adjourn

The 2013 Vermont Home Energy Challenge    

Nine Chittenden County towns already signed up!  

Weatherize 3% of the Homes in Your Community Help your neighbors reduce their energy bills by participating in the 2013 Vermont Home Energy Challenge. Efficiency Vermont, in partnership with the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network (VECAN), is seeking local organizations to champion the Challenge in their communities and to sign up their towns to participate. Under the Challenge, local organizations will foster public awareness about energy saving opportunities in the home and will set a target of weatherizing 3% of the homes in their community over the course of a year. At the end of the year, towns will be recognized and awarded for the effectiveness of their efforts to encourage further participation in their communities.  

Potential Impact of 2013 Vermont Home Energy Challenge

If the goals of the Challenge are met (50 communities completing Home Performance with ENERGY STAR ® improvements in 3% of their homes), it could:

• Result in 2,450 comprehensive home energy improvement projects
• Generate annual energy savings of nearly $2M - that's an average of $760 per home, per year
• Reduce annual CO2 emissions by more than 5,000 tons - the equivalent of taking 900 cars off the road
• Help create 35 jobs in the year that the work is done (i.e. 2013) and an additional 13 long term jobs due to keeping energy dollars in state.
• Save enough energy to heat 400 Vermont homes for an entire year.

Questions? Contact Paul Markowitz pmarkowitz@veic.org

or visit the Efficiency Vermont Home Energy Challenge website. 

$986,500 in Grant Funds available from the Working Landscape Enterprise Board 

The Working Lands Enterprise initiative will invest in three areas related to Agriculture, Forestry & Forest Products: 

1.    Enterprise Investments ($3,000-$15,000 grants, Required Minimum 25% cash match of grant amount requested)

2.    Working Lands Service Provider Grants ($10,000 - $100,000 grants, Required Minimum 50% cash and in-kind match of grant amount requested)

3.    Capital and Infrastructure Investments ($15,000 - $100,000 grants, Required Minimum 1:1 Match (in-kind and at least 50% cash) of grant amount requested)

More info and applications available at VermontWorkingLands.com.   

Contact Noelle.Sevoian@state.vt.us with questions.