Today's new home buyers expect energy efficiency to be part of the package. What if your home was built before today's energy efficiency standards?
The Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program offers whole-house solutions to high energy bills and homes with comfort problems. Unlike typical energy audit programs, the goal of Home Performance with ENERGY STAR is to turn recommendations into improved homes.
From insulation to high-efficiency mechanical equipment, the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program aims to deliver today's energy-efficiency solutions to yesterday's homes for a more comfortable and affordable home ownership experience.
With headquarters in Kearny, New Jersey, Ciel Power LLC is a participating provider of New Jersey Clean Energy's Home Performance with Energy Star program and a licensed New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor (NJHIC#13VH06170900).
We love seeing so many households making energy-efficient upgrades and taking advantage of these tax credits! A big step forward for sustainability and savings in 2023. Here's to even more in 2024! 💡🌍
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I can't stress enough how important this area is to air seal in your home. I have a multi-level home, 1700 sqft, built in 1960. When I Air Sealed the rim seal in my garage that ran along the house side of the garage as well as around the perimeter and the the gap between the drywall ceiling and the foundation, the change inside the house was almost instant. I thought that was a big deal, until I tackled the rim joist seal. In my case I have a Cantilever or bump out in the front that extends about fifteen inches past the foundation. When I got around to doing the rim joist I was shocked at what I found. The builder had stuffed one four foot long R13 paper backed insulation strip in between the joists that ran back twenty inches. Once I removed the insulation, what I was looking at, was sunlight coming through the different seams and junctions in every bay. After properly sealing and insulating, I saw another big change to the positive. Air sealing your home is the biggest bang for your buck. Statistics say, a properly air sealed home will cut your utility bills anywhere between 20% to over 40% in some of the worse case scenarios.
How to the credit work. If I qualify for a $1200 insulation credit do I just get to deduct the $1200 from my gross taxable income? Or do I get $1200 refunded to me? A $1200 dollar deduction doesn’t equal out to $1200 in my pocket.
This is excellent information. For anyone else reading this comment, wrap a sweater around your house and try to get it as close to the passive standard as possible.
Hi RG, a Ciel Home Energy Audit is $99. If you decide to move forward with any of the recommended improvements through Ciel, the $99 is credited towards your scope of work. Starting this year, there is a tax credit available to eligible homeowners for up to 30% of the audit cost. The audit is performed by technicians certified by the Building Performance Institute.
Sure Human-caused Climate Change A totally unproven theory that is propped up by junk and fraudulent science. Young people are indoctrinated by the education establishment. Any questioning is stifled if at all possible
