Green Influence of Friends Helps Me Sleep Better

User: helbo2010@verizon.net

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 3349 - Green Heating and AC

I was feeling good about our support for global warmimng when we completed putting solar panels on the house.  What an absolute no brainer, not only producing most of our house energy using solar, but saving money to boot.  Then we went to church and Carolyn and Rand Barthel gave another spirited sermon on going green.  I remember driving home that day wondering what can do to go even greener and I got a blinding flash of the obvious, my furnace and ac compressor were on their last legs and it was keeping me up at night.  I got home and immediately started googling geothermal and heat pumps.  After a little research, I called Rodenhiser and they showed me that I could replace my ac unit with an air to air heat pump providing new efficient air conditioning and my primary heating unit, as well as a new gas fired furnace that would serve as my back up heat.  All this plus MASS SAVE was offering all sorts of rebates.  First I had to have my attic insulation increased for mimimal cost, and I got a $10K rebate and interest free loan for the remainder of the system.  The total cost was $22K but after all of the rebates, I'm paying about $130 a month for 7 years.  What a deal, and I'm now sleeping like a baby.