Dominion Virginia Power is now offering a Home Energy Check-Up that can also mean a rebate for power customers who use home efficiency measures.
In the Home Energy Check-Up program, a qualifying customer will receive a report with findings and recommendations for saving energy along with a rebate based on improvements involving the water heater, sinks and showerheads, lighting, air conditioning filters and other items. Dominion estimates that the average one-time incentive will be approximately $230 for customers making improvements that are based on the check-up results.
Along with the new program, Dominion is offering programs to test and seal heating and cooling system duct work, to tune-up heat pumps and to upgrade heat pumps to more efficient units.
The average incentives are $125 for the residential Duct Testing and Sealing program and $90 per unit for a residential Heat Pump Tune-Up program. The average incentive is $200 for the Heat Pump Upgrade program for installing a unit with an efficiency rating of 14.5 to 15.9 and $250 for a rating of 16 and higher.
“We encourage customers who want to make their homes more energy efficient to take a close look at these programs,” said Ken Barker, Dominion vice president of customer solutions and energy conservation.
“Along with helping customers save money, there also is an environmental benefit to using less energy.”
These programs join some other successful energy-saving measures Dominion has established for customers. Dominion recently asked state regulators to extend the Smart Cooling Rewards program, in which air conditioning units are cycled off and on for certain hours during very hot days, for five years.
The program reduces peak demand by nearly 60 megawatts of power, equal to the output of a small generating station.
The company also asked to extend the Income-Qualifying Home Improvement program for two years; this helps qualified customers identify and install energy conservation measures.
For more information about these and other Dominion programs, visit the company’s website.
