Existing Home Programs
Utility companies throughout the Mid-Atlantic trust us to provide their customers with independent, professional energy audits to find ways to save money and improve energy performance. From quick energy check-ups to comprehensive audits, Home Performance with Energy Star®, Limited Income Programs, and Multi-Family Tenants, ComfortHome offers a portfolio of energy efficiency and market transformation programs including:
Quick Energy Check-Ups
ComfortHome assists residential customers in identifying energy savings opportunities by offering professional walk-through home energy check-ups in our portfolio of programs. Unlike the comprehensive Energy Audit, the quick energy check-up is a visual survey of the home.
ComfortHome Trained Professionals help identify energy savings opportunities for customers.
With a ComfortHome quick energy check-up, homeowners will:
- Be educated by a BPI certified professional on energy use and efficiency opportunities
- Receive a visual inspection
- Discover what can be done right away to start saving energy
- Receive a combination of the following: CFL bulbs, hot water heater wrap, low-flow shower head, faucet aerator, pipe insulation
- Have a greater understanding of their home's environmental impact
The low-cost check-up and installed measures can help households reduce energy bills at little or no cost depending on the utility program.
Diagnostic Energy Audits
With a ComfortHome Comprehensive Energy Audit, homeowners will:
- Be educated by a Building Performance Institute-certified professional on energy use and conservation
- Learn where their home is losing energy through diagnostic test results from equipment such as the blower door, smoke tracer, infrared thermograph, duct blaster, and equipment test
- Discover what can be done right away to start saving energy
- Learn how their home can be made more efficient AND more comfortable
- Have a greater understanding of their home's environmental impact
- Receive an easy-to-read report with testing results, improvement suggestions, cost estimates for the improvements, and annual payback
ComfortHome has audited more than 12,000 homes and residences since 1994. Our BPI certified staff is trained to perform all diagnostic home energy tests such as:
- Blower Door Testing—quantifies the home's leakage rates to ensure achievement of pre-construction engineering specification for energy and ventilation
- Air Flow Measurement—ensures HVAC system is balanced and delivering required air flow to all rooms
- Duct Tightness—quantifies the tightness of the ductwork systems to ensure overall integrity
- Equipment Testing—measure equipment outputs to ensure performance to manufacturer's specifications and rating
- Visual Inspections—careful inspection of ductwork, duct sealing and system sizing
- Infrared Scanning—Infrared thermography provides upgraded assurance of superior building performance
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR is a whole-house approach to reducing energy consumption. The household will be provided with a diagnostic energy assessment which produces prioritized, recommended measures that will result in a more comfortable, energy efficient home.
With Home Performance with ENERGY STAR®, homeowners will:
- Be educated by a BPI certified professional on energy use and conservation
- Receive a detailed report where their home is losing energy through diagnostic tests such as the blower door, smoke tracer, infrared thermograph, duct blaster, and equipment testing
- Discover what can be done right away to start saving energy
- Learn how their home can be made more efficient AND more comfortable
- Receive a broad array of measures from heating and cooling equipment to air sealing and insulation to appropriately and cost-effectively reduce energy consumption
As an ENEGRY STAR Partner, ComfortHome has been involved in implementing this comprehensive approach to energy efficiency throughout the nation. Home Performance with Energy Star promotes a broad array of measures, such as new heating and air conditioning equipment, windows, air sealing, and insulation. This program delivers comprehensive energy efficiency solutions to households.
Limited Income Residential
Energy affordability is an increasing concern for utilities and their customers throughout the country. ComfortHome has been involved in designing and implementing Limited Income Residential Programs for utility companies to serve the dual purpose of reducing energy usage and minimizing the percentage of household income that is devoted to energy costs.
ComfortHome has acquired an unequalled, comprehensive understanding of how to meet the needs and objectives of these programs through enhanced measures and education to capture cost effective electric energy savings.
ComfortHome services limited income residential programs for PSEG, PPL, Met-Ed, Penn Power, BGE, and Columbia Gas Co. ComfortHome also contracts with Community Action Programs throughout the Mid Atlantic to provide weatherization services to qualifying families.
In cooperation with the federal funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, and Low Income Usage Reduction Program (LIURP) funded through the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, ComfortHome delivers weatherization and other energy improvements to thousands of homes each year.
To find out more about weatherization and if you qualify, contact ComfortHome at 1-800-367-7223.
Multi-Family Buildings
ComfortHome has developed and delivered extensive energy efficiency improvement plans in over six thousand low-rise multi-family dwelling units. The majority of the projects were accomplished independent of a Utility sponsored program.
ComfortHome has certified Building Performance Institute (BPI) Multi-Family Specialists to audit multi-family properties. ComfortHome can value engineer customized action plans to multi-family properties traditionally not included in Utility Limited-Income programs. Multi-family, codes associated with them, and the interstitial connectivity have unique challenges and issues that ComfortHome has been able to cost effectively address with direct benefits in energy saving, improved comfort, while maintaining health and safety standards in all units of the buildings in focus. The scopes of our retrofits have included lighting, HVAC distribution improvement, and mold and moisture remediation.
PARE® Energy
Adaptable to most utility programs, ComfortHome's proprietary Progressive Analysis to Reduce Energy, or PARE™ technology, provides homeowners with greater options, greater savings, and higher levels of comfort than any other home improvement option.
Our Progressive Analysis to Reduce Energy (PARE) insures homeowners save the maximum possible energy at the minimum possible cost.
Developed from our experience with utility-run residential energy efficiency programs, ComfortHome developed PARE to incorporate the necessary steps to attract and activate homeowners to upgrade their home's efficiency.
Unique to Comfort Home, PARE is the result of our 25 years of home energy management experience, our state-of-the-art technology, and our development of the most productive and cost-effective approaches to evaluating and reducing home energy use. Comfort Home has certified the energy efficiency of more than 150,000 homes and residences.
PARE delivers greater savings and more comfort than any other home improvement option.
Most homeowners think the secrets to home energy efficiency involve more insulation, higher R values, high efficiency heating systems and appliances, new windows, and perhaps inexpensive heating sources like free wood. While these factors are important—and certainly should be considered when evaluating what's best for each particular home—other considerations such as air leakage (through attic, basement, and ductwork) can have a much bigger impact on energy consumption and comfort.
Comfort Home's PARE process utilizes state-of-the-art diagnostic testing, sophisticated computer analytics and reporting, and proven retrofit techniques to help you choose exactly the right energy reduction upgrades to best match your home and budget.
We'll inspect, analyze, diagnose, and quantify every aspect of how your home consumes energy.