For Your Home

The programs of the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund make it easier than ever to bring energy efficiency home. And with everything from incentives to rebates, you don’t have to change the way you live to change the way you save energy. As described under each program, eligibility may depend on whether your electric distribution utility is Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P) or The United Illuminating Company (UI).

Heating and Cooling Your Home

The CEEF provides valuable incentives for you when you purchase and install an electric central air conditioning or electric heat pump system that meets the required energy efficiency ratings. By getting the most energy-efficient equipment, you use less electricity while lowering your utility bill, and that's good for both you and the environment.

Home Energy Solutions

This comprehensive program is free to all customers who heat their homes with electricity or natural gas. A specialist will come to your home and perform an energy assessment; find and professionally seal critical air leaks; replace incandescent bulbs with compact florescent lamps; provide water conservation devices and more.

The SmartLiving Center

The SmartLiving Center is a showplace of innovative, stylish, and most importantly, energy–saving ideas for your home or business. It’s not a store, but it’s a great place to learn about—and try out—the latest in energy–efficient living. Perfect for school trips too! Located at 297 Boston Post Road (Rt. 1) in Orange, Connecticut.

New Construction Homes

Building a new home? You can build the ‘green’ home of your dreams and earn incentives for installing energy-efficient measures. This program pays the average incremental costs associated with more expensive, energy–efficient equipment. Customers can install energy–efficient equipment for approximately the same net cost (after incentive) as to install standard–efficiency.

ENERGY STAR Rebates

BE A STAR! An ENERGY STAR!
Did you know that compact fluorescent bulbs use 50-70 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs; yet they give off the same amount of light? Replacing the lights around your home with energy-efficient bulbs is a great cost-effective way to reduce home energy consumption. ENERGY STAR-labeled light fixtures are designed to save energy and lower your monthly electric bills, without sacrificing comfort and quality.

In addition to lighting, ENERGY STAR-qualified appliances can also help you save money on your energy bills by reducing your energy consumption. Appliances that have ENERGY STAR-qualified models include: clothes washers, dehumidifiers, dishwashers, refrigerators/freezers and room air conditioners.

Geothermal Heat Pumps

Geothermal heat pumps take advantage of the earth’s constant temperature to provide extremely efficient heating and cooling. While standard air-source heat pumps use the outside air temperature to heat and cool a home. Harness the heat trapped in the ground to provide both heating and cooling for your home and qualify for a cash rebate.

Museum Partnership Program

As part of their educational and public outreach, the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund and CL&P sponsor several interactive exhibits on energy efficiency around the state. Partnering with key educational museums, science centers, technical high schools and municipalities across the state, these exhibits raise awareness in school-age children, teachers and parents about the economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency.

Limited Income

This program helps limited-income homeowners (or renters) affordably adapt to energy efficiency measures, such as safely lowering electric use, reducing a home’s heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer, conserving hot water and switching to energy–efficient lighting. Households with an income of up to 200% of the federal poverty level qualify.

eesmarts™

eesmarts is an energy efficiency and clean, renewable education initiative for Connecticut’s Grade PreK-9 classrooms. Need free professional development training regarding energy and energy efficiency? Need free curriculum that supports the CT Science Framework standards? This is the program for you.

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Did you know?

If you do two dryer loads in a row, you can best utilize the generated heat. And if you run your washer and dryer during off-peak times (after 8 p.m.) or on weekends when energy use is lower, you help stabilize the electricity grid.