The Home Energy Improvement and Neighborhood Energy Saver programs, which target more than 1.4 million Progress Energy residential customers in the area, will help customers save energy and money through a variety of measures.
As part of the three-year, $3.1m contract, Honeywell will manage Progress Energy Carolinas’ Home Energy Improvement Program (HEIP), which offers rebates to homeowners for making heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) upgrades, equipment tune-ups, energy-efficient window installations and air sealing.
Under HEIP, customers select from a list of prequalified contractors to perform the upgrades and then receive rebates in return. Honeywell will provide customer support, process rebates, and recruit and train contractors to assist in implementing the efficiency measures.
HEIP, which began in July 2009, is available to Progress Energy customers in North and South Carolina living in existing single-family, multi-family and manufactured homes, including mobile homes.
Progress Energy expects to save more than 31 million kilowatt-hours of electricity over the course of the program, enough energy to power more than 2,900 homes for a year.
Additional goals include completing 4,000 window replacement projects, insulating and sealing 2,000 homes, and performing tune-ups on more than 15,000 HVAC systems.
Under a three-year, $3.6m contract, Progress Energy Carolinas has enlisted Honeywell to deliver the Neighborhood Energy Saver program (NES). NES provides energy-saving information and conservation measures to help low-income family residential customers cut electricity consumption and costs.
Honeywell will work with Progress Energy to canvass neighborhoods with informational materials, plan kick-off events in each community and engage in a door-to-door campaign.
Honeywell will perform an in-home assessment of energy use and educate residents on energy-saving techniques and areas to improve efficiency.
Honeywell will also install conservation measures, including compact fluorescent lighting, weather stripping, water pipe insulation and high-efficiency showerheads.
Progress Energy expects to provide energy-efficiency improvements to approximately 10,000 homes by 2011 through the NES program.
