Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® (HPwES) can help you save up to 40% on your energy costs and make your home safer and more comfortable. To qualify for your home energy improvement in the New York Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® program and obtain LIPA rebates, utility customers installing the eligible energy-efficiency improvements and/or renewable technologies must be in the Long Island Power Authority service territory of Nassau and Suffolk. Home Performance with ENERGY STAR is part of LIPA’s Efficiency Long Island initiative, a groundbreaking, 10-year effort to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on Long Island. Triple H Contracting is proud to be an approved Home Performance with Energy Star Contractor.
The HOME STAR program will help families lower their monthly expenses. The average family literally throws away 20-40% of the money they spend to heat and cool their homes each year—about $750—because their homes are energy inefficient, burdened by faulty building shells with air leakage and insufficient insulation, as well as old, inefficient HVAC equipment with leaky ducts.
More than 50% single-family homes in America were constructed before the advent of modern building codes, roughly 30% are more than 45 years old and another 30% are between 25 and 45 years old. It is estimated that more than 43 million existing homes need urgent improvements to energy efficiency, durability and occupant comfort, zones.
HOME STAR, also known as ‘Cash for Caulkers,’ is a nationwide incentive program for home performance retrofit and weatherization projects. It is intended to encourage homeowners to invest in improving the energy efficiency of their homes, while also creating sustainable jobs in local communities.