Energy Upgrade California
What is Home Upgrade?
Home Upgrade is a "whole house" approach to home energy efficiency. Rather than focusing on individual energy efficiency upgrades, the program addresses your home's energy needs as a complete system. For example, your air conditioner can keep your house cool and use less energy if you seal the air ducts to eliminate drafts. Home Upgrade helps you maximize your energy efficiency, lower your energy bills, and increase your home's comfort. Read More |
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Home Upgrade
Beat the Heat with Cool Comfort Financing
With summer on the horizon, this is the perfect time for homeowners to start thinking about upgrading the air conditioner into an energy efficient model. Cool Comfort Financing can help homeowners finance that green improvement, with support from The Energy Network to keep interest rates as low as 4.99%. Homeowners can use Cool Comfort Financing toward energy efficient central air conditioner and/or furnace replacement projects. Best yet, all Cool Comfort Financing Participating Contractors offering this program are verified as licensed and insured.
To date, more than 100 homeowners have benefited from low interest rates through this the program, thanks to the support of the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission through The Energy Network.
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Southern California Gas Company
Take the ENERGY STARŪ Pledge
Take the EPA's ENERGY STAR Pledge online to help save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Pledge challenges you to commit to making simple but powerful choices like these:
- Buy energy-efficient products
- Recycle old appliances
- Seal and insulate your home
- Enable power management settings on your computer
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Southern California Edison
Summer Discount Plan
Earn up to $200 in bill credits with the sweet discount plan that makes it easy to conserve energy over the summer. Get started now to participate in Summer Discount Plan. Already enrolled? Manage your plan to suit your preferences.
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Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
Bixby Marshland Open for Tours First Saturday of Every Month
The Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County restored the 17-acre Bixby Marshland on its treatment plant property near the intersection of Figueroa and Sepulveda in the City of Carson. This marshland is a unique habitat located in an urban setting. It is open for free tours on the first Saturday of every month from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sanitation Districts also schedules tours for groups by appointment. For more information, or to set up a tour, contact them at (562) 908-4288, ext. 2301.
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West Basin Municipal Water D istrict
Metropolitan Water District Board Boosts District Conservation Budget to Record $450 Million
Facing an unprecedented drought, the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California approved the nation's largest turf removal and water conservation program that over the next decade is expected to generate enough water savings to nearly fill the region's largest reservoir-Diamond Valley Lake.
Learn about West Basin Municipal Water District's water conservation programs, here.
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 City of Torrance
USC Price Students Envision Greener Energy for Torrance
With the help of a team of Master of Public Administration students from the USC Price School of Public Policy, the city of Torrance has taken the first step toward securing a greener, more cost-effective electricity supply.
The students undertook the project as part of the MPA capstone course, which offers the opportunity to engage in field work for public agencies and nonprofits.
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L.A. Metro 
Zipcar Adds More Car Sharing Locations Near Metro Stations
In an effort to help enhance mobility, provide Los Angeles transit customers with more transportation options and improve first mile-last mile connectivity to Metro stops, Zipcar, the world's leading car sharing network, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) have entered into a partnership to provide vehicles for hourly or daily reservations at 10 Metro park-and-ride locations.
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Learn more about Metro's Vanpool and ExpressLanes programs.
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Legislation Corner
AB 857, Prioritizing Deployment of Cleaner Engine Technology in the Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Passes the Assembly Floor
The California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program, upon appropriation from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, funds zero- and near-zero-emission truck, bus, and off-road vehicle and equipment technologies and related projects, as specified, with priority given to certain projects, including projects that benefit disadvantaged communities.
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| South Bay in the News
Californians, South Bay Communities Conserve Water At Highest Rate So Far During April
New figures showing Californians saved more water in April than during any other month in the year buoyed state water officials, who expressed optimism the uptick in water conservation will continue into the warm, summer months.
Many foothill communities in Los Angeles County with homeowners living on large lots fared better in April. Glendora cut use by 26 percent; Arcadia, 15 percent; Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, 10 percent; Inglewood, 15 percent; Whittier, 22 percent; Thousand Oaks, 14 percent.
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June 2015 Events & Workshops
Click Here to See a List of Upcoming Workshops & Events
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