Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels Series Electrify Your Life: Top Ways to Ditch Fossil Fuels

Feb 21

About this Webinar

We have modified the content of this webinar after reflecting on the implications of our messaging on overpopulation. We are sorry if we caused harm and we share in the collective grief of the legacy of these messages tangibly enacted on our community. We are actively working to create a discourse around what happened and hope to involve the CEC community in that process. Here is a resource we’d like to share that is influencing our learning right now: “Climate Change and Population” from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Curious about the advantages and incentives for electrifying your home? Need more information about making the switch to drive electric? Learn how one family kicked their daily fossil fuel habit—and how you and your family can too. We cover the most impactful changes you can make today to create all-electric homes, commutes, and safer communities.

We also share all the local, state, and federal programs that provide incentives, rebates, and other benefits to support you in making changes that fit your lifestyle and your budget. Co-presented with Ecology Action and 3C-REN.

Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels Webinar Speakers:

April Price, 3C-REN
Emily Gottlieb, Ecology Action

Host:

Michael Chiacos, Director of Climate Policy, Community Environmental Council

Resources

Take Steps To Break up With Fossil Fuels:

Read (and bookmark for future reference) Michael Chiacos’ blog How to Get Fossil Fuels Out of Your Life. In the blog, he shares 10 critical steps that both homeowners and renters can take to reduce their carbon footprint, save money, and make their homes healthier.

Get Electric Vehicle Purchase Guidance:

Have you considered buying or leasing an electric vehicle (EV) but don't know where to start?

Watch CEC’s Get Charged Everything You Need to Know to Drive Electric Webinar

Do you already know you want to drive an EV, but are concerned about the cost? Did you know that there are enhanced rebates for low-to-moderate income households that make it easier to access an EV?

Visit the EVs for Everyone website to sign up for free EV purchase guidance services that the Community Environmental Council will begin offering in March 2023. Get on our list now to get help this spring on EV incentives and rebates that will put you on the path to driving a new or used electric vehicle. Services will be available in Spanish and English.
You can also email CEC’s team directly at energy@cecmail.org to access resources and support to help you ditch fossil fuels.

The Community Environmental Council focuses its EV purchase guidance on households with low-to-moderate incomes, long-distance commutes, and/or whose primary language is Spanish.

Get Resources to Electrify Your Home:

3C-REN Single-Family Home Energy Savings Program: This program reduces the cost of cutting-edge home energy upgrades. Watch their webinar about heat pumps, including stories from locals who’ve made the switch. Single-family homeowners in Santa Barbara, Ventura and SLO Counties can receive discounted retrofits for all-electric heat pumps, efficient home appliances, climate-friendly water heaters, and a variety of other money-saving energy efficiency upgrades by signing up with the local government agency’s Single Family program.
Central Coast Community Energy (3CE) Electrify Your Home Program: provides cash incentives for home energy upgrades that switch gas-powered water heaters and HVAC equipment to all-electric options. Incentives are available to help cover appliance costs and costs related to electric panel upgrades or replacements
Inflation Reduction Act: The largest clean energy investment America has ever made currently provides 30% tax credits on heat pumps, up to $2,000 per project, along with credits for insulation, energy-efficient windows, electric panel upgrades, and more. Use Rewiring America’s IRA Benefits Calculator to see how much money you could save by going all-electric at home.
Are you a contractor who would like to offer 3C-REN incentives to your customers? Sign up to participate here.
If you would like CEC’s help in navigating the various programs and electrifying your life contact energy@cecmail.org or (805) 881-3877.

Get Resources to Electrify Your Multi-Family Residence:

Get more info about the 3C-REN Multi-family Home Energy Savings programs on their agency’s website.
See if your multifamily residential property is eligible to install solar through California’s Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program and learn more about SOMAH’s benefits.
Are you a multifamily property manager or property owner who would like to lead the way to an all-electric future? Contact us so we can help!