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Economy

New Calif. Energy Program Offers Rebates To Homeowners

By Ed Joyce / Reporter
Published May 2, 2011 at 3:00 AM PDT
This story was published more than 13 years ago.

Program Geared To Achieve Greenhouse Gas Reductions, Create Jobs

Homeowners can find out how to lower their monthly utility costs and get cash rebates at one of several upcoming workshops in San Diego.

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) is holding a series of public workshops starting May 10 in San Diego focusing on a new statewide program called "Energy Upgrade California for Homeowners."

"The workshops cover how people can go about participating through this program and what those steps are," said Jack Clark, senior program manager for building retrofits at the California Center for Sustainable Energy. "Finding the right contractor to perform the work, to do the home energy assessment. And what rebates, incentives and financing is available to homeowners through this program."

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Clark said the goal is to save energy and achieve greenhouse gas reductions by retrofitting existing homes with efficient systems and renewable energy technologies.

Clark said the new systems also make the homes more comfortable too.

He said another benefit of the program is creating jobs for contractors.

"What this program also does is it taps into our contractor base throughout the state and gets folks back to work," said Clark. "So this is very much an energy-efficiency program as well as a job-creation and stimulation program."

He said the long-term, statewide goal of the program is to give energy makeovers to all 13 million single-family and multifamily homes in California by 2020.

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Clark said that would create an average reduction in energy use of 40 percent per household.

The first workshop will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at CCSE’s Energy Resource Center at 8690 Balboa Avenue, Suite 100, San Diego (Kearny Mesa). To register for the May 10 workshop and see future workshop dates, visit www.energycenter.org/homeowners http://www.energycenter.org/homeowners or call Matthew Messina at (858) 244-1177.

Schedule for Energy Upgrade California for Homeowners Workshops:

May 10 11:30 a.m.– 1:30 p.m.

May 26 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

June 7 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

June 23 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

July 7 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

July 21 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 2 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Aug. 25 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 7 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 28 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

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Ed Joyce
Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.
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