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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - December 21, 2009
Obama's Home Energy-Efficiency Pitch: Insulation Is "Sexy"
by: Mark Guarino
The Christian Science Monitor
President Obama on Tuesday pressed the importance of green
home remodeling in the aisles of a Home Depot in Washington
D.C. Tuesday as a way toward economic savings and energy
independence.
"I am calling on Congress to provide new temporary
incentives for Americans to make energy efficiency retrofit
investments in their homes and we want them to do it soon,"
he said. Insulation is "sexy stuff," he said later, because
it saves money.
The Obama administration is already banking on federal
stimulus funding to shift consumer behavior toward energy-
efficient homes. Green retrofitting of homes is on the rise
in the US, researchers say, and Recovery Act incentives may
be contributing to that trend.
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The US home retrofit market will reach $35 billion by 2013,
a 69 percent increase from 2008, according to SBI Energy,
a market research company specializing in home energy.
Specifically, the market for energy-efficient heating,
ventilation, and air-conditioning retrofits is expected to
grow from $3.1 billion in 2008 to $5.1 billion by 2013.
"We expect the market to continue to grow simply because
energy efficiency will have the greatest impact at the
least economic burden level to homeowners," says Shelley
Carr, publisher of SBI Energy reports.
The White House expects stimulus tax credits and funds to
push the number of green home retrofits to 1 million by
2012. Retrofits numbered about 100,000 in January 2008.
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"Our homes and our offices consumer almost 40 percent of
the energy we use and contribute almost 40 percent of the
carbon pollution that we produce," Mr. Obama said Tuesday.
"The simple act of retrofitting these [old] buildings to
make them more energy efficient... is one of the fastest,
easiest and cheapest things we can do to put Americans back
to work while saving families money and reducing harmful
emissions."
Earlier this year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act allocated $5 billion to weatherize low-income homes,
a tax credit for homeowners to cover 30 percent of energy-
efficient upgrades, and $300 million to promote energy-
efficient appliances. The Obama administration also pledged
to accelerate the rate for setting efficient-energy
standards for microwaves, washers/dryers, and refrigerators
? from one per year during the Bush presidency to an
expected six per year during Obama's first term in office.
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However, while increased home-owner spending on energy-
efficient upgrades may save dollars, an impact on the
environment requires a much more massive overhaul of the
nation's buildings, experts say.
The stimulus money is "a small down payment on a very big
potential consumer benefit," says Mark Cooper, research
director of the Consumer Federation of America. But, he
adds, it only "corrects a market failure" that currently
exists in the home market.
If 50 million of the 120 million buildings in the US were
retrofitted over the next ten years, says Mr. Cooper, "that
would have a tremendous impact on the structure and demand
for electricity and natural gas."
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