<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Last weekend a guy came to our door saying that he was with PEPCO and offering a free home energy check up. He was part of the EmPOWER Maryland! initiative</span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"> to reduce energy consumption. </font><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">As part of the EmPOWER Maryland legislation, PEPCO offers programs to save your home or business energy. </span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Programs include lighting and appliance rebates for homeowners, Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (including home energy assessments and 50% rebates for energy improvements like insulation and air sealing), commercial lighting rebates, and energy efficiency services for industrial facilities.</font><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">We had our appointment yesterday and it was so awesome! We replaced all our CFL and incandescent lightbulbs with LED lightbulbs (up to 16 bulbs), and got a smart power strip that stops idle appliances from wasting energy by only using energy when the appliance is in use. If our hot water pipes hadn't been insulated, we could have gotten pipe insulation. And we had faucet aerators installed, and could have gotten a low-flow shower head (had we needed one). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">They gave all this stuff to us for free. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">You can schedule a Quick Home Energy Check-up for your home here: </div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://ezgreenhome.com/quick-home-energy-check-up/">https://ezgreenhome.com/quick-home-energy-check-up/</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">THE HOME WALKTHROUGH</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">An EZ Green professional will take 20-45 minutes to introduce you to energy systems in your home and provide some quick energy saving tips. You will also receive a report summarizing the current condition of your energy use and recommendations to improve.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">ENERGY EFFICIENT INSTALLS</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">In addition to the analysis, each homeowner will receive energy saving products to reduce consumption immediately! This may include: CFL and/or LED light bulbs, low-flow shower heads, pipe insulation, and smart power strips.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Just wanted to share because I was so surprised that all this was free. And because the guy doing the work on my house said that it's hard to get people to answer their doors, and he wanted help getting the word out to residents about the program. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">-Sarah</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="1" color="#674ea7">Sarah Wayland, Ph.D. | <a href="http://www.guidingexceptionalparents.com/" target="_blank">www.GuidingExceptionalParents.com</a><br></font></div></div><div><span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="1" color="#674ea7"><div dir="ltr">Supporting students with learning differences & their families</div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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