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Join a growing community of Portlanders creating a healthy future
If you would like to reduce your monthly utility bills and are concerned about climate and health, it’s time to start planning an all-electric home update. Better indoor air quality, summertime comfort, and carbon-free living are finally within reach.
Whether you rent or own your home, consider joining the many Portlanders saying Adios to fossil fuel by powering their homes with 100% clean, renewable electricity. Anyone with an electric bill can participate.
Free Fall Webinar Series: Five Things You Should Know About Your Home’s Energy
Join us for a webinar in October or November to learn the basics of home energy and better understand how your home is heated and cooled. Helpful if you are thinking of applying for a local assistance program, planning home energy upgrades, or working with people at a local nonprofit.
How it Works
By electrifying your home and getting your energy from renewable sources, you become part of the solution to the climate crisis. Each home and appliance counts, and every one who makes the transition helps to turn the tide toward a healthy future!
Sign Up
Complete our sign-up form to request your “in process” sign kit, which includes milestone badges to mark your progress and helpful resources. Proudly display your sign in front of your home—every Electrify sign helps to spread the word and inspire your neighbors to join us on the path to clean energy.
Plan
Every home is different—make a plan to get started. We’re for you if you have questions and need some quick & friendly advice about how to approach electrifying your home. We invite you to schedule a call with Kate Szrom, our outreach coordinator. She’s a certified electric coach who spent a 10-year journey weatherizing and electrifying an older Portland home. She’ll answer your questions or recommend someone who can.
Take Action
Clean up your electricity supply and swap out the systems in your home, adding badges to your sign as you electrify. Find electrification-friendly contractors, and check out this list of low or no cost options.
Get Certified
When your home is powered exclusively with clean energy, get your certification sign to display outside your home.
Keep it Going
Start with your home, then inspire your friends and neighbors. You’re an influencer whether you know it or not 🙂
Deeper Dives
This site links to fantastic home electrification resources from Electrify Now and Rewiring America. Thanks, Partners!
Is your home already powered by clean energy?
Skip ahead to provide documentation of your electrified home, and receive your certification sign. Then you can post it straight away!
What you can electrify in your home
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