Evaluate Your Home
Energy-saving opportunities
Most homes can be made more energy efficient—it's all about knowing where to begin and determining what fits within your budget. Energy Trust offers several easy ways to evaluate and improve your home's energy performance, and provides cash incentives to help complete your improvement projects.
Online
Use this free, easy tool which takes less than 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive:
- An estimated calculation of your home's energy use
- A custom profile detailing how your home compares to similar homes in your neighborhood and next steps for improvements you can make at your own pace
By Phone
Talk to an energy advisor to learn about energy-saving opportunities for your home. After a 20-minute conversation, you'll receive:
- Custom recommendations based on your goals for comfort and cost savings
- Referrals to local Energy Trust trade ally contractors who can help install your improvements
Call us at 1.866.368.7878
At Your Home
Have a trained Energy Trust energy advisor visit your home for a one to two hour walkthrough. You'll receive:
- A prioritized list of recommendations you make at your own pace, based on visual observations
- Information about Energy Trust cash incentives and available tax credits
- Energy-saving products to help you start saving instantly
- Referrals to local Energy Trust trade ally contractors who can help install your improvements
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR®
For the most in-depth analysis, move forward with a Home Performance with ENERGY STAR assessment. This comprehensive three to four hour home assessment is led by a specially trained and certified contractor who uses diagnostic state-of-the-art equipment to assess, test and evaluate all components of your home's health, safety and energy performance. Cost varies per Home Performance contractor. You'll receive:
- A detailed energy consumption report
- A comparison of what you pay now to what you could be paying when your home runs at peak performance
- Custom recommendations for improvements which can cut up to 30 percent of your heating, cooling and water heating costs
- A list of available cash incentives for efficiency improvements to your home