Residential Direct Install Program

The Redwood Coast Energy Watch program provides a variety of offerings to help local residences learn about and achieve energy efficiency in their homes:

• Residential Neighborhood Sweeps: Trained energy efficiency teams perform door-to-door canvassing in neighborhoods, replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents, incandescent night lights with LED night lights, and halogen torchieres with fluorescent torchieres. This year, teams will also replace standard or nonexistent faucet aerators with low flow faucet aerators to help you reduce the amount of water you use without you noticing a difference.
• Fluorescent Take It Back: Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) and linear Fluorescent tubes are a quick and easy way to save energy in your home.  By saving energy you will save money while you reduce your carbon footprint.  But remember-- all fluorescent lamps contain trace amounts of mercury and are classified as Universal Waste. So when your fluorescents run out, don't forget to Take-It-Back!
• Holiday Light Exchange: Humboldt residents can exchange their incandescent holiday lights for free and receive energy-efficient LED mini-lights during the annual exchange.

Visitors are always welcome to visit our Energy Resource Center in Eureka, where they can check out books and tools from our lending library, look at our energy displays, and talk with staff on energy efficiency and renewable energy topics.

In today's fast-paced world of energy efficiency, we are also working to evaluate and develop other initiatives, such as:

• Time of Sale Home Energy Assessment: The Time-of-Sale Pilot Program is intended to streamline implementation of home energy efficiency measures by uniting energy efficiency expertise, real-estate professionals, motivated lenders and home buyers at the “golden hour” for renovation: when the home is vacant and a funding mechanism (the mortgage) is available.
• Home performance: a new way of treating a house as a whole system to acheive, comfort, safety, durability, and energy efficiency. Visit the Building Performance Institute for general information on this emerging field.
• Property-assessed clean energy (PACE): based on a novel way to pay for long-term home improvements through property-tax liens, PACE programs can make major efficiency and renewable energy upgrades accessible to a wide range of homeowners.  Visit our PACE page for more details.
• One-Stop Energy Shop: an extension of our Energy Resource Center, where consumers would be connected with energy efficiency and renewable energy rebates, incentives, and financing, and would receive assistance to implement measures with their homes.