Posts tagged efficiency upgrades

Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services

Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services was the recipient of a $750,000 grant that will enable them to promote energy efficiency in low to moderate income families through home improvement loans focusing on efficiency upgrades. Fifty rural families will be able to receive loans thanks to the grant, with a special focus on first time homebuyers and homeowners.

Energy Financing Guide

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County released its “Energy Financing Guide” in both hardcopy and web-based format. The guide simplifies the process of winnowing through all the information on the array of financing programs available to support energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy integration. The guide helps the reader easily “drill down” to the programs for which they may be eliglble, first by guiding the reader to select their residence type: homeowner, landlord, or tenant; and then further differentiating eligibility for available programs into three income tiers.