Home Energy Audits with 1BOG Discount by brad

One Block Off the Grid was founded with the intention of causing the tipping point in the adoption of affordable solar energy in as many places around the country as possible.  We’ve been enjoying the ride that has resulted from negotiating on behalf of communities for discounts on solar installations, and have learned some important lessons along the way.  One of those lessons has been that, despite innovative financing, increasing rebates, and lots of solar education, solar is sometimes not the best option for everyone.  Perhaps there are big trees blocking the sun from an otherwise willing roof.  Perhaps electricity isn’t consumed much in some households.  Or perhaps cost is just simply prohibitive.  There are many reasons why solar might not be right for some folks, and we’re well aware of this.

To help address this, and to help more people save money, green their lives, and lower energy consumption all at the same time, we decided to expand our model and offer group purchasing for home energy efficiency.  We searched far and wide, and eventually found Sustainable Spaces, and we couldn’t be more excited.  Sustainable Spaces is the Bay Area’s leading provider of energy audits and home energy efficiency retrofits.  We met with them a few times, only to come to the realization that we couldn’t continue our operation without offering the most cost-effective energy efficiency program out there to our members.  We negotiated a 15% discount on energy efficiency retrofits for our members, the largest pricing discount they’ve ever offered.  Basically, we went in search of an energy efficiency compliment to residential solar, and we hit the jackpot.

If your house is too cold, too hot, too drafty, moldy, if allergies or asthma are issues for your family, if your power bills are too high, or if you’ve been looking to make home improvements that will pay for themselves, energy efficiency retrofits with 1BOG and Recurve is probably a good bet!

Edit: As of late 2009, Sustainable Spaces has renamed itself Recurve.