Updates & Events Check out our calendar for all upcoming events! Do you or someone you know own a small business and want a FREE Energy Assessment from WVU? WVU’s Industrial Assessment Center received a grant to conduct free energy assessments for small businesses in West Virginia - Click here for more details. Check out these 101 Tips for saving money and energy at home! Interested in saving money by making your home, business or building more energy efficient? Check out our "WV Contractors List" page for a list of contractors in West Virginia who are qualified to do the repairs and construction necessary to make your home more energy efficient. Also, look at our "Resources for Residents" and "Resources for Governments" pages, which are updated often with new helpful tips to help you make your home more energy efficient - from simple changes you can do yourself to financing options to tax incentives! Friend us on Facebook! Friend us on Facebook and keep up-to-date with what we're working on, learn facts about energy efficiency in W.V. and the U.S. and learn simple and cheap ways to improve the energy efficiency of your home. Find us under Energy Efficient West Virginia. | Energy Efficiency in the News Check out this article in the Charleston Daily Mail about commercial businesses that are taking advantage of Appalachian Power's rebate programs to become more energy efficient and save money: "His company, Wells Home Furnishings, changed 872 spotlight-type bulbs over a period of four months last spring -- and saw the electricity bill go from $3,400 to $1,630 per month". And this article in the State Journal describing the energy efficiency programs that FirstEnergy (the parent company of Mon Power and Potomac Edison) is offering to its customers in other states - but not in West Virginia. An Energy Efficiency Resource Standard for West Virginia would require FirstEnergy to begin offering similar programs and opportunities for savings here. Current Campaigns Outreach: Energy Efficient West Virginia is working on our Outreach Plan for the next year. We'll be speaking at conferences, tabling at fairs and festivals, presenting to local governments and much more. If you're interested in teaming up with us when we come to your town - tabling at a festival or talking to your local government, etc. - please contact Molly (molly.eewv@gmail.com). Also, if your company, organization or non-profit would like more information about EEWV & the potential for energy efficiency in WV, want to collaborate with us this year or have us do a presentation in your area, please contact us. |