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Community Power Works Expands Citywide

Admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:44:45 +0100

Community Power Works (CPW) is a program of the City of Seattle to provide energy upgrades for buildings and homes in Seattle. To date, the program has targeted homes in central and southeast Seattle, but as of January 1st 2012, the Read More...

Community Power Works kicks off!

Admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:05:23 +0100

April marks the official kick-off of the City of Seattle's Community Power Works (CPW) program. CPW will assist homeowner in Central and Southeast Seattle with retrofits that will increase the energy efficiency and health of their homes. Homeowners in the target area are automatically enrolled in the program anRead More...

Sound Home Performance excited for Community Power Works

Admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:24:50 +0100

The team at Sound Home Performance is gearing up and getting excited to take part in the City of Seattle’s highly touted Community Power Works (CPW) program set to launch in the upcoming mRead More...

SHP Featured on ShoreBank Pacific's Website

Admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:59:49 +0100

When Sound Home Performance was getting started, we decided to do business with a bank that aligned with our own environmental and social goals. ShoreBank Pacific is the nation's first commercial bank dedicated to a "triple bottom line" philosophy for doing business. This month ShoreBank was kind enough to feature us on their website.

See our feature at: http://www.eco-bank.com/customers/featured.php

Seattle gets moving on energy efficiency with the Community Power Works Initiative

Admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:35:52 +0100

There has been a lot of movement in Seattle this year regarding funding for energy efficiency projects. A brief look on seattle.gov reveals a tangle of initiatives, including CPW, EECBG, WEB, and others. This blog post is an attempt to unscramble these acronyms and paint a clearer picture of what exactly these initiatives are and what they promise for local developments in the industry.

The nRead More...

Release of new solar power inverter allows Washington residents to maximize state production ...

Admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:40:09 +0100

Background

The state of Washington has one of the most progressive renewable energy incentives in the country. In 2005 the state enacted Senate Bill 5101, to provide a production incentive for renewable generation. This bill creates a fee schedule for paying participants for their energy production based on the type of system they install. The base rate is $0.15/kwh produced. This amount is then adjusted based on the type of system installed by multiplying the base rate accordingRead More...

ACI Conference and the Buzz Around Home Star

Admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:50:03 +0100

Last week a couple members of the Sound Home Performance team traveled down to Austin Texas for the annual Affordable Comfort Conference (ACI). ACI is the nation’s premier home performance conference and a great place to get a pulse on the industry, catch up with old friends and meet contractors, utility representatives, non profits, and product manufacturers and suppliers from all over the country who are working to improve our nations existing housing stock.

2010 has Read More...

Puget Sound Energy Launches HomePrint

Admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:36:22 +0100

This month marked the start of PSE's HomePrint program. HomePrint provides homeowners with a $350 rebate towards a comprehensive home performance evaluation. HomePrint is a sponsor of Home Performance with ENERGY STAR.

As and approved provider for the HomePrint program, Sound Home Performance is pleased to offer this rebate to approved customers that receive both gas and electric from PSE. If you are interested in participating in this program just give us a call and we will Read More...

Happy Customers

Admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:57:55 +0100

The Sound Home Performance staff strives to provide the most for our customers. We see ourselves as allies in a homeowner’s effort to create a better home for the planet and for their family. For this reason we were thrilled to recently receive the following note from a customer.

Quality:

Our project manager David is currently working on a home performance renovation of a 1950’s home in the Matthews Beach Area. When we tested the two story home originally it showed 3400CFM50. This past weekend, David and I did a little work in his attic, blocking off the gap around his fireplace and capping a dropped section of ceiling above the basement stairs. These two repairs brought the infiltration rate down to 2400CFM50. That’s 1000CFM50 for one hour ofRead More...

Efficiency: Everyone’s Talking About It

Admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:16:42 +0100

Over the last couple weeks a number of notable figures have publicly engaged in the discussion of how our current climate crisis and economic woes can both be combated by the development of a thriving Home Performance industry.

It started with Vice President Biden’s release of a report titled “Recovery Through Retrofit” on the creation of green jobs and energy savings for the middle class. This report outlines a means of creating a thrivinRead More...

Welcome to our new website!

Admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Starting a new venture always requires a lot of hard effort, but luckily for us the timing couldn’t be better to create a new division of Puget Sound Solar so that through Sound Home Performance we can service all of your residential Energy, Health, and Comfort needs.

Additionally, thanks organizations like Efficiency First and Home Performance Washington (who recently named our own Corey Fitch to its Board) there has never been more support for home performance contractors likeRead More...