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Each year, approximately 2,400 Utahns get a ThermWise Home Energy Plan from Dominion Energy Utah. If you’re not one of them, you could be losing energy and cash, and missing out on an opportunity to help clean Utah’s air.
A Home Energy Plan from Dominion Energy will help you identify simple ways to save cash and help clean Utah’s air by making changes specific to your home. By participating in a Home Energy Plan, you will receive a detailed report with suggested high-efficiency upgrades and corresponding ThermWise rebates tailored to your home’s needs. Nearly 75,000 rebates were paid in 2016, some worth as much as $750.
Better yet, if you need and will install energy-saving items, such as pipe insulation, a low-flow shower head or faucet aerators, you will receive them for free at the time of their appointment.
“It’s great value for our customers and it helps conserve energy,” said Mike Orton, Dominion Energy efficiency manager. “It’s also easy. Customers can schedule an In-Home Energy Plan with one of our experts or take part in our Mail-In Home Energy Plan. Both options will provide a detailed savings report customized to each customer’s individual home. If a customer is more of a do-it-yourselfer, they can complete a Mail-In Home Energy Plan, or visit ThermWise.com to do it electronically for free!”
With an In-Home Energy Plan, a Dominion Energy Utah home energy expert will visit your home for $25 and inspect every nook and cranny to see where you are losing energy and money. If you incorporate any of the energy expert’s rebate-qualified recommendations, Dominion Energy Utah will credit the $25 charge to your gas bill. In the end, you can get a no-cost ThermWise Home Energy Plan and be on your way to being energy efficient, saving money and helping to clean Utah’s air.
A Home Energy Plan helps you identify where they can make a few small changes that can really add up. Simple things like adding weather stripping to doors, lowering the thermostat by 10 degrees while sleeping and changing a furnace filter when needed can save money on your monthly gas bill and help make a big impact on Utah’s air.
A customized energy plan also provides you with information on cash rebates for energy- efficient improvements such as these (see ThermWise.com for qualified items):
- Smart thermostat: $50
- Gas tankless water heater: $300
- Residential gas boiler: up to $600
- Gas storage water heater: $100
- Solar assisted gas water heating: $750
- Gas hybrid water heater: $350
- Gas furnace: up to $400
- Direct-vent gas fireplace: $200.
Natural gas is clean, but being energy-efficient is even better. Dominion Energy customers who participated in the ThermWise program in 2017 saved the same amount of natural gas used by 10,000 residential customers for a whole year. That’s a lot of savings, and a great first step to helping to clean Utah’s air.
The program is only available for Dominion Energy Utah, Wyoming and Idaho customers. You can schedule a home energy plan by calling 1-888-324-3221 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or visiting ThermWise.com.
