New Tool Streamlines Home Electrification Planning
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Rewiring America, a non-profit organization focusing on electrification, has launched a tool called the Personal Electrification Planner. It is designed to help homeowners set up a plan for electrifying their homes based on their specific needs, providing estimates on upfront costs, annual bill savings, annual emissions reductions, and the impact on air pollution and health for various electrification upgrades. The tool also incorporates federal incentives based on the user’s income and location, and offers a detailed guide for the project process.
Transition to Home Electrification with Innovative Solutions
Everyday, readers encounter articles about electrifying everything from transportation to homes on CleanTechnica. The platform discusses potential solutions such as cleantech products and innovations that can support the transition from fossil fuels. These include benefits of home solar, heat pumps, induction stoves, home energy storage, and electric vehicles. However, beginning the electrification process remains a daunting task for many.
Understanding the starting point, prioritizing upgrades, gauging upfront costs, calculating fastest financial returns, assessing emissions reductions and indoor air pollution can all guide homeowners towards home electrification. Awareness of available incentives for purchases and upgrades can also influence decisions about personal electrification.
Rewiring America’s New Personal Electrification Planner
Rewiring America, a non-profit dedicated to electrifying homes, businesses, and communities, has unveiled a new tool, the Personal Electrification Planner. This tool generates a custom plan based on each user’s specific needs.
The Planner uses a robust data and analytical model to estimate the upfront cost, annual bill savings, annual emissions reductions, and impacts on air pollution and health for a range of electrification upgrades. These include heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, induction stoves, electric dryers, EV chargers, and rooftop solar.
Incorporating federal incentives from the landmark climate law based on user’s income and location, the Planner goes beyond with predictive modeling for your housing type. It provides a detailed guide for every step of the electrification process.
The tool is primarily designed for homeowners, but also includes a guide for renters. Tom Mercer, Head of Product at Rewiring America, stated that the goal was to develop resources that could help homeowners make smarter choices and understand what the journey could look like for their specific home.
Access the Personal Electrification Planner here. Also available are the IRA Savings Calculator and a free downloadable Go Electric guide to the Inflation Reduction Act.
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