Cutting Your Energy Bills: Benefits of a Home Energy Audit in Massachusetts

Are high energy bills taking a toll on your wallet? If so, you may want to consider conducting a home energy assessment. A home energy assessment is the process of evaluating energy consumption in your home and identifying ways to make it more energy-efficient. The benefits include saving money on energy costs, reducing environmental impact, improving comfort levels in the home with better insulation or air conditioning systems, and they are fast and free. It’s time for you to take control of your family’s energy efficiency needs.

What Happens During a Home Energy Audit?

Since Massachusetts has some of the oldest homes in America, it’s important to see where you can save money, save energy, and improve the efficiency of your home. Your energy specialist will come to your home and inspect every nook and cranny, looking for ways to improve energy efficiency and update your old systems to energy-saving products like a high-efficiency heating system if you’re still using an older natural gas system. The energy specialist will then use the Home Energy Audit Report to recommend steps towards energy-saving opportunities.

Benefits of a Home Energy Assessment

There are many energy audit benefits, including the potential to save money and reduce your environmental footprint. You may even receive some tax incentives or qualify for some rebates!

Save money on monthly utility bills (and save energy).

Home energy assessments can help you save money and reduce energy costs. Your energy analyst will find ways to improve efficiency, such as approved insulation improvements, air sealing, or updating your heating system.

It’s more costly to heat or cool a home that is not energy-efficient. Between air leaks or lack of insulation, your systems will have to work harder to fight the inefficiencies. How many Energy Star certified products do you have in your house? When you replace drafty single-pane windows with Energy Star replacements, you can save $100-500 each year in energy costs. If those savings are just from windows, imagine how much more you can save on monthly energy costs in your living room, bedroom, and kitchen!

Reduce your environmental impact and increase energy efficiency.

Home energy use accounts for over 80% of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, so we must do what we can to lessen our carbon footprint. Home energy assessments help us by finding ways to cut down on energy usage and improve comfort levels, resulting in less energy used.

If you live in an older home with older heating and cooling systems or natural gas systems, a home energy assessment will help identify energy savings opportunities by upgrading these items.

Improve comfort levels in your home.

When an energy auditor comes into your house, they will go through every room, looking at how well-insulated each area is. Different rooms have varying temperature needs; one might need better insulation than the other.

They also look at your heating and cooling systems because you can find energy savings in things like updating an old system or adding a space heater. Energy analysis reports will provide you with detailed information on how well-insulated each room is as well as what type of qualifying energy-efficient heating/cooling units you should update.

Home Energy Assessments are Fast and Free

As a Massachusetts homeowner, the energy-efficiency charge is already built into your monthly bills. So why not take advantage of it? In addition to being no-cost, the home energy assessment isn’t time-consuming, either. When you schedule your home energy audit, an Wattson Home Solutions technician will only need 1-2 hours to assess your home. In just a short period, you’ll be able to see your home’s energy usage and start saving energy instantly.

Rebates, rebates, rebates!

Are you worried about the cost of upgrading your appliances? It’s easy to take advantage of energy rebates as residential customers through the Mass Save program. An energy efficiency services specialist will see if you’re eligible, and if you are, you can start saving. There are generous rebates that affect different parts of your home, such as the thermostat, insulation, and heating. When you schedule your energy assessment, don’t hesitate to ask questions about it — your Wattson Home Solutions technician will explain what they all mean and help you fill out the necessary paperwork, too.

Contact Wattson Home Solutions Today to Schedule Your Home Energy Audit!

If you have been thinking about getting a home energy audit, there’s never been a better time. The benefits of an energy audit are clear, and the cost is minimal. Get started today to see how much money you can save on your monthly utility bill. You can start making small changes in your house that will help improve the comfort level while lowering environmental impact and saving energy. Call and schedule your no-cost home energy assessment today, (855) 627-7674.