To reap the full amount of savings
from weatherization, you should consider fully insulating your home.
Evidence
from the weatherization assistance program,» NBER Working Paper No. 21331.
Not exact matches
The tracking began in 2011, at a time when national funding for the
weatherization program increased
from $ 450 million to nearly $ 5 billion due to the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
Filling The Gaps: The History of The
Weatherization Assistance Program
from State and Local Energy Report on Vimeo.
Assistance for
weatherization of residence: The household received services free, or at a reduced cost,
from the Federal, State, or local Government.
While specifics vary
from program to program, savings categories frequently include financial incentives for HVAC systems, water heaters, building insulation, appliances,
weatherization, lighting, and other energy efficient improvements.
«America is in the midst of a large experiment in which
weatherization efforts, retrofits, and other initiatives that affect air exchange between the indoor and outdoor environments are taking place and new building materials and consumer products are being introduced indoors with relatively little consideration as to how they might affect the health of occupants,» said a statement
from John Spengler, the chairman of the committee that wrote the report.
The study did not assume 100 % adoption of each intervention; rather, drawing on empirical data of adoption rates for previous health and environmental behavior interventions, the researchers estimated potential adoption rates ranging
from 15 % for carpooling to 90 % for
weatherization.