Jump on this! Free Home Energy Audit for You, $50 to an Important Cause, Your cost: $0.00

Loft insulation (Photo credit: Southend-on-Sea in Transition)

Autumn has finally arrived - it's a great time to think about your home's energy efficiency.

In partnership with Neil Kelly Company and Clean Energy Works Oregon, I'm excited to share an exclusive offer for [Oregon League of Conservation Voters] supporters that will save you money and support OLCV's work. Read on!

Thank you,

Doug Moore
Executive Director, OLCV

The Neil Kelly Company is excited to support OLCV in this important election year. (Voter registration deadline is today [October 16] - please check that you are registered to vote, and if you are new to Oregon or have moved since the last election, don’t forget to re-register!)

As a pioneer in design-build remodeling, sustainable materials, and residential energy efficiency, Neil Kelly Company is a strong supporter of OLCV’s efforts to protect our natural legacy.

Improving your home’s energy efficiency this fall is one of the easiest ways to reduce energy use, while offering you greater comfort and utility bill savings. Last year, we completed 211 retrofits for an average savings of 2.8 tons of carbon per home per year and an average energy savings of 30 percent.

Together with Clean Energy Works Oregon, we’d like to offer you a unique opportunity to save energy while helping OLCV.

Just visit Clean Energy Works Oregon’s website and apply with the special Instant Rebate Code CNNLK222, and Neil Kelly Company will perform an energy audit of your home for free (valued at $500), and give $50 to OLCV.

Clean Energy Works Oregon’s unique program enables you to undertake energy improvements with no out-of-pocket costs, and offers a range of financial incentives upon project completion in many areas of the state. Currently, homeowners in greater Portland qualify for rebates of up to $2,000, while homeowners in other counties (Polk, Marion, Yamhill, Lane, Deschutes) are eligible for rebates of up to $2,000 or $3,000, depending on the county.

We strongly encourage you to act soon, as rebate levels in some counties will change November 30! Just apply at Clean Energy Works Oregon’s website with the Instant Rebate Code CNNLK222. You'll receive a free home energy audit, and we'll give OLCV $50! (Don't forget the code!)

We look forward to seeing you at OLCV's 16th Annual Celebration for the Environment next year, and thank you for your commitment to furthering the work of OLCV.

Sincerely,

Tom Kelly, President
Neil Kelly Company

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Opportunity Knocking -- are we smart enough to recognize it?

A Danish CHP facility providing heat for nearby greenhouses. Image via Wikipedia

(UPDATE: Nice Christian Science Monitor article on capturing and using waste heat.)

Guy wants to build a natural gas-fired electric plant right in Keizer Station-- where there could be many, many uses for the waste heat if the plant was designed and built from the start as a combined heat and power (CHP) facility. In addition to heat in the winter, CHP plants can even produced chilled water for air conditioning for nearby buildings and businesses in the hot months and excess heat can be used for maintaining soil temperatures to promote growth in urban agriculture.

There's the old saying about "Opportunity knocks but once" --- true here. Even truer is the fact that many people fail to recognize opportunity when she knocks because she's wearing work clothes. This is a perfect example -- the easiest thing to do would be to ignore the rich potential of using the waste heat from the plant and just focus on electricity. But with some forethought and a little elbow grease, Keizer could vault into the lead of Oregon municipalities in terms of guaranteeing itself a better, more prosperous future for decades.

UPDATE: An example of how valuable waste heat can be to Oregon nurseries.