Home Energy Improvements Rewards Us All

As we get through another winter, many homeowners are thinking that maybe they waited one winter too long before upgrading their residential energy efficiency. If that describes you, don’t wait until you start thinking you waited one summer too long before giving us a call.

Sir Home Improvement is proud of our efforts to increase the energy efficiency of homes in Southwest Michigan. Those efforts have made us the recipient for four straight years of the federal Home Performance with Energy Star program’s Century Club Award in cooperation with Consumers Energy.

The program awards those service contractors who provide a “whole-house approach to improve the energy performance of more than 100 homes” in a year. These award are announced once a year, but home owners are awarded monthly when they receive their energy bills after contracting for this comprehensive approach to residential energy improvements.

We’ve looked at some of the data Consumers energy provided to us on the positive results of the program. Since 2011, Sir Home has performed 600 HPwES comprehensive energy improvements to homes in the region. The average Consumers Energy residential customer uses 93,000 cubic feet of natural gas in a year. Energy gas savings, however, after a home receives HPwES qualified energy improvements averaged 25,000 cubic feet of natural gas.
An average residential electric customer for Consumers energy uses 8.16 Megawatts-hours per year, but can save .38 MegaWatt-hour in the first year after an HPwES improvement project.

Yet those savings are not the only benefits that homeowners can realize when they contact Sir Home for comprehensive energy improvements. Since 2011, the total Consumers Energy HPwES rebates that we have generated for our customers total $362,000, or an average of $600 in rebates per home.

One more thing. Our comprehensive energy improvement projects aren’t just saving you money. They’re also improving our environment. Sir Home Improvements have saved 145 tons of CO2 emissions since 2011.
Improving the energy of your home helps make us all winners.

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Food Drives Help Local Families In Need

The bitter cold of winter always creates more challenges for those families trying to spread their sparse income around to cover too many needs. There are ways, however, that many of us can help.

Food is always a need that sometimes gets shortchanged, so Sir Home Improvement is sponsoring two food drives in January. The first is going on now through Sunday, Jan. 16, at Paw Paw Family Fare.

Our efforts to bring food to the needy continues next weekend at Vicksburg Family Fare, Jan. 23-30.
We have already donated more than 800 items to 12 food pantry baskets this year. We’ll be donating the food from the next two drives to Eleanor’s Food Pantry in Paw Paw. Donations should be of non-perishable food items.

If you wish to make a cash donation instead, go to the Eleanor’s Pantry website, eleanorspantry.org. Eleanor’s Pantry was formed by the combined efforts of 11 local churches, and is funded primarily by those churches, community service organizations and private donors. All staff are volunteers.

Yes, this is a pretty cold weekend to go out and make a special trip to donate, but you probably have to go to the store sometime. Besides, it’s colder on an empty stomach for our neighbors in need. Please help if you can.

Food Drives Help Local Families In Need was first seen on SIR Home Improvements