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A renovation is an opportunity to improve your home — whether that’s to boost comfort or transform the look and feel.
Prioritizing energy efficiency in your project can help achieve these goals while lowering your energy bills. New Yorkers can leverage tax credits and incentives to lower the cost of energy upgrades.
Uneven indoor temperatures? Drafty doors? Ice buildup on the roof? These are a few signs that a home is wasting energy. An energy assessment is the first step to making your home more energy efficient. A NYSERDA contractor will provide an overview of your home’s energy use, pinpoint where it’s wasting energy, identify safety or health issues and energy-saving opportunities.
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Weatherization upgrades, like air sealing and insulation and replacing doors and windows, are the most important steps toward saving energy, increasing comfort, and improving indoor air quality.
Air sealing and insulation helps enhance indoor comfort and energy savings. More than half of energy use goes to heating and cooling. Sealing and insulating helps keep heat and cooled air from leaking out, and moisture and outside temperatures from creeping in. These improvements can cut home energy use by 10%, delivering immediate savings.
Doors and windows are among the leading culprits for energy loss in a home, making them a prime candidate for an upgrade. Older doors can have significant air leakage as the weatherstripping around the threshold wears away. New, energy-efficient doors have features to minimize air leakage.
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Replacing an inefficient water heater with a heat pump water heater is one of the biggest opportunities to cut home energy costs. Water heating is the second largest energy hog, averaging nearly 20% of a home’s energy consumption.
Heat pump water heaters run on electricity, and depending on the existing system type, expect to save $200-$550 annually on home energy costs with superior efficiency.
Remodeling your kitchen? Now is the time to upgrade your cooking experience with an induction stove or cooktop.
Induction stoves offer superior energy efficiency and performance compared to gas and conventional electric stoves. The induction process heats up the cookware itself, rather than the stove surface, improving safety and cooking time alongside energy savings. Besides faster cooking, induction offers more even heat distribution, precise temperature control and easier cleanup — simply wipe down the flat, glass-ceramic surface between uses.
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Heat pumps provide an all-in-one system for home heating and air-conditioning that runs more efficiently than a traditional system — and without the use of fossil fuels like oil, propane or natural gas.
There are two main types of heat pumps: cold-climate air source and geothermal (ground source). Both types are ultra-efficient and also help remove dust and allergens to improve indoor air quality. Depending on your home, heat pumps can be integrated with ductwork or installed as individual units, known as ductless mini splits.
For more information, visit nyserda.ny.gov.
