An energy check-up for your home
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. is offering quick home energy check-ups to customers hoping to reduce their energy usage and bills. The hour-long check of your insulation levels, appliances and the like costs $40. (Unless you agree to use several energy-saving measures -- then it's free.)
Our Consuming Interests blog has more details.
And Sun reporter Scott Calvert wrote a story about energy audits earlier this year, in case you're interested in the trend itself.
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but it will be waived if customers agree to pay to have installed...
it's a scam to promote sales.
if you KNOW your home is inefficient and want to quantify that objectively then do so but know that the job (done properly) is worth considerably more than $40 and requires hours on site to complete.
Posted by: MrRational | September 4, 2009 10:14 PM
Well, the BGE site says "the $40 Check-up fee ..., and the cost of the energy-saving measures and their installation, will be waived." So it doesn't appear that BGE is charging for the items or their installation.
But I'm guessing that a full energy audit could take quite a bit of time.
Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | September 4, 2009 10:58 PM
I don't understand why BGE has services like this. Energy audits, BGE Home, those green meters, advertising, and so on. It seems like BGE has all this extra stuff they do beyond just providing power. What's up with that?
I guess it's one of those things I'll have to get used to when my townhouse is ready. The electricity utility where I live now in PA doesn't do any of that. They just sell you power and fix it when it breaks. They don't charge connection fees or as much for electricity either.
Posted by: BigDragon | September 5, 2009 12:35 AM
I got the check up. They gave me CFL bulbs, and replaced some water faucet things.
I learned a little bout where the air is leaking . it was free. the guy was nice
Posted by: Rich | September 5, 2009 4:27 PM
BGE Home is a seperate company from BGE
Posted by: JB | September 8, 2009 11:55 AM
JB, the information is posted to BGE's site. (The link I included above sends you there.)
Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | September 8, 2009 12:20 PM