Saving Energy

1. 2,000 Huntington, Long Island residents targeted to reduce energy consumption with the use of EnerPath software
Apr 9, 2010 EnerPath News Release
The Town of Huntington announced yesterday the launch of an energy efficiency program targeting local residents. The Huntington Town Council will hear a recommendation next week to use LI Green, a local not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the Advanced Energy Center at Stony Brook University, to perform home energy assessments and provide education, recommendations and support for residents in order to significantly reduce energy use. LI Green is partnering with EnerPath to bring large-scale energy efficiency to Long Island through the use of EnerPath's specialized software and best-practices expertise.
EnerPath (www.enerpath.com), with offices in Boston, MA and Redlands, CA, has been delivering large-scale energy efficiency programs for over ten years. EnerPath software enables energy assessment information to be electronically captured and analyzed on-site. Within seconds, a custom report can be printed for homeowners, showing opportunities for energy efficiency savings. Real-time dashboards of program progress are available to LI Green and the Town of Huntington through an EnerPath web portal.
"The Town of Huntington shows incredible foresight in recognizing the importance of green-tech opportunities for creating local jobs and addressing residents' concerns to lower their energy bills," said Stephen Guthrie, EnerPath Founder and CEO.
EnerPath champions a tiered approach to energy efficiency and has a track record of incredibly high customer enrollment and satisfaction. By starting with Tier 1 measures, which are low-cost, easy to install and have quick-payback periods, customers embrace energy efficiency and associated energy savings. Customers with positive Tier 1 experiences will go on to implement Tier 2 and Tier 3 measures, which tend to be more complex and costly.
The tiered approach to energy efficiency, adopted by The Town of Huntington, and endorsed by the US Department of Energy will enable LI Green to provide a Free Tier 1 Home Energy Assessment with recommendations on low-cost, quick-payback energy efficiency measures to Huntington residents. Energy assessors will provide education on Tier 1 energy efficiency measures and explain Tier 2 audits and other opportunities for energy savings throughout the home, as well as other financially supported programs customers can enroll in to save energy. Energy assessors will also provide education on Tier 3 measures like renewable energy and government incentive programs for these measures including solar and wind energy alternatives.
"The program being implemented between LI Green and EnerPath in Huntington is a true partnership which is focused on helping Long Island families," said Chuck Schwartz, Director of LI Green. "EnerPath has a history in the energy efficiency business of providing cost effective and large-scale community programs. The use of mobile wireless computers and the superior design of EnerPath's software will allow us to operate better, faster and smarter. With this technology platform, trained LI Green Engineers and Technicians will provide Huntington homeowners with preliminary home energy assessments in under an hour. The system's ability to prepare and print customized reports for immediate review with the resident, as well as EnerPath's proven methods for implementing and verifying energy efficiency measure installations and ensuring residents achieve the targeted reduction in their monthly energy bills, makes this a program that will exceed all expectations."
"Even more exciting is that the Tiered Delivery Program being implemented complements the outstanding energy efficiency programs being implemented by LIPA, NY State and the LI Energy Efficiency Retrofit Ramp-up Consortium, a partnership of eight Long Island townships," continued Mr. Schwartz. "The Huntington program will act as a pre-qualification, screening program that will lead to greater outcomes. It complements these regional and statewide efforts while at the same time very quickly delivering significant energy savings and greenhouse gas reductions from more families in the near term."
The Town of Huntington expects to have 2,000 residences assessed in the first phase of this program which will last for 24 months.
EnerPath licenses its award-winning energy efficiency audit software and deploys large-scale energy efficiency programs nationwide. Working with utility companies, municipal governments and green-tech partners, EnerPath executes customized programs that make tens-of-thousand of homes and small business more energy efficient each year.