What could be better? It’s all possible if you own your own home and sign up for a free energy audit from Next Step Living. The service is paid by a surcharge on energy bills across the state. A trained service engineer will come to your home, replace inefficient light bulbs with new LED and CFL bulbs for free (you can keep your old bulbs), and make recommendations about how you can increase the energy efficiency of your home and save money. There is no charge, and no obligation. You can use Next Step to do additional work, or use someone else, or do nothing.
BMG will get a $25 referral free for each audit, which is great and will help to support the website, but the real reason to do this is to help improve your home’s energy efficiency. More on Next Step Living from their website:
Next Step Living® is the groundbreaking company on a mission to make it easy, affordable and rewarding for homeowners to implement energy-saving solutions.
Founded in Boston in 2008, the company is unique in offering a whole-home approach that helps homeowners:
Save energy and money
Reduce their carbon footprint
Live more comfortably
Information Resource and Service Provider.A one-stop resource for informed advice, expert workmanship and guidance about available incentives and rebates, Next Step Living partners with more than 400 municipalities, civic organizations and leading corporations to deliver energy-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions. Those solutions include:
Home energy evaluations
Weatherization work (air sealing and insulation)
Roofing and windows
Heating and cooling (ductless mini splits, HVAC systems)
Solar panel installationNamed to the Inc. 500 list of fast-growing companies, the 2014 Global Cleantech 100 and recognized by the New England Clean Energy Council as an employer of the year, Next Step Living has more than 800 employees in Massachusetts and Connecticut, where early in 2013 we opened our second office. Next Step Living is also an A-Rated BBB Accredited Business.
I believe there are other companies that provide similar services in the Commonwealth. If you have had good experiences with them, please feel free to say so in the comments.
Click here to schedule an appointment. Give it a try. I did, and was very pleased.
It was required to qualify for the state tax break on my solar installation. National Grid did it free. They also replaced old-style lightbulbs, tested the whole house for air leaks, did thermal imaging, etc. They even built an insulating box around the top of the attic pulldown stairs in my house, free. My impression was that they will do it for any customer, but their webpage sounds like what they offer now is less thorough. It seems that all the utilities offer this through Mass Save.
Used them several times, for home and office. Been around about 20 years. There is some question right now about their finances – a spat with Coakley of some kind – but the work and savings are top notch.