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Organization: Home Energy Efficiency Team

Location: Cambridge, MA

 Project
Description: Most of the buildings in Cambridge, MA are old and drafty. Help a low-income homeowner pay for materials for a HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) event. All labor is donated by volunteers. We would air-seal the home and install efficient light bulbs (CFLs) and water efficiency measures such as low flow showerheads and faucet aerators. From energy bills in the homes we’ve worked in, we save 10% in the house on both heat and electricity. 76% of our volunteers use the skills they learn in their own homes, but we can’t yet quantify that additional savings yet.

Total Cost:
$307.00

More About This
Project:

Project technologies:

  • Weatherization
  • Electricity Efficiency
  • Water Efficiency

 Energy Economics:

  • $15.86 savings to average low-income HEET home per dollar donate
    •  To save average low-income HEET home $100, donate $6.30
    • To save average low-income HEET home $500 dollars, donate $31.52 
  • Source of $ savings:
    • Lower heating, electricity, and water bills

GHG Economics: 

  • CO2
    lifetime savings: 79.21 lbs per dollar donated
    • One ton of
      CO2 emissions can be eliminated with a $25.25 donation.
  • Source
    of CO2 savings:
    • Lower electricity usage results
      in lower emissions at the power plant
    • Lower consumption of heating fuel directly lowers CO2 emissions

Green
info: Air-sealing a home keeps a home more comfortable, less drafty, with less vermin and with a higher resale value. Altogether over 12 tons of CO2 and 109,000 gallons of water will be saved over the next decade.

More About HEET:

Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) is a grassroots nonprofit founded in August of 2008. It organizes weatherization parties in homes or nonprofits. The labor is free to the home‐owners/tenants. They only pay for materials. If they are low‐income, HEET raises the money for materials.

 At HEET events, neighbors meet each other and work together, building community. They also see everyone working together on energy efficiency, demonstrating that energy efficiency is something people like them should, and do, take action about. HEET has won an EPA Environmental Merit Award, a Cambridge GoGreen Award and a MCAN Climate Superstar. www.HEETma.com.