NHSaves Button Up Workshop
Getting started with, planning for, and finding funding for household energy projects
Available rebates, tax credits, and funding for household energy projects
Energy audit, and insulating and sealing a drafty home
Switching my home heating from oil or propane to electric heat pumps
Switching to a heat pump water heater
Switching to an induction stove
Upgrading electrical panels
Preparing for and purchasing an Electric Vehicle (EV)/EV charger
Exploring solar panel installation
Purchasing and installing battery storage
To request a meeting with an Energy Coach through the Monadnock Sustainability Hub, fill out this form.
There are three great reasons to replace fossil fuel technologies with electric alternatives: saving money, improving health, and curbing climate pollution.
Money: Today’s most advanced electric technologies are more efficient than fossil-fueled alternatives, so they can reduce monthly household energy bills. According to Rewiring America, families could save up to $1,800 per year on lower energy bills by taking advantage of all the electric upgrades incentivized by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Electricity rates are also much more stable than fossil fuel prices.
Health: Burning fossil fuels generates air pollutants that contribute to adverse health effects. These include nitrogen oxides and particulate matter from car and truck tailpipes, which contribute to smog and premature deaths, and nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves, which can cause childhood asthma.
Climate: Electric technologies generally produce significantly less carbon pollution than fossil fuel alternatives. Burning fossil fuels is inefficient, creating a lot of waste heat that is lost to the surrounding air.
The Monadnock Sustainability Hub is now offering free coaching to residents in the Monadnock region on reducing carbon pollution and emissions, home electrification, electric vehicles, and more!
Coaches are volunteers affiliated with the Monadnock Sustainability Hub but not with any of the vendors or contractors who might be recommended. Coaches can offer a range of experience, from knowledge of financial incentives and planning strategies, to lessons learned from their experiences making energy upgrades on their own homes, to professionals with expertise in electrification technologies and systems. We will fill requests for coaches as they come in, attempting to match your needs with coaching capacities.
Our engagements are intended to be advisory, limited, and not a substitute for full-time paid labor or a contractor. Our goal is to provide information and recommendations on actionable next steps and to support you through the process of making your home more energy efficient and climate-friendly.
Your privacy and confidentiality will be maintained. We will not share your information outside our pool of volunteers.
If you know someone who could use our help, spread the word about this program and share this link: bit.ly/hubenergycoaching
Volts Podcast, February 28, 2024
NPR's All Things Considered, May 12, 2025
This comprehensive resource is free from Rewiring America.
About 40% of U.S. carbon emissions come from our homes and our vehicles. Switching to powering our dwellings and cars with electricity from renewable energy will help us
lower emissions that are dangerous to our health,
fight climate change that causes severe weather events, and
save money.
Discover how to decarbonize your home and enjoy the economic and health benefits.
The future home will be comfortable and eco-friendly, using heat pumps, solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, and smart appliances.
This resource offers invaluable tips so you can make this vision a reality.
Energy efficiency is defined as using less energy to perform the same task, or to produce the same result.*
Reducing your electric and natural gas usage at home and at work provides numerous environmental, community, and health benefits:
Makes consumers’ utility costs more manageable
Improves business competitiveness
Enables homes and buildings to run appliances and electronics more efficiently
Allows manufacturing facilities to use less energy to produce goods
Increases the reliability and resiliency of the electric grid we share
Creates jobs and helps to grow our state’s clean energy industry
Keeps the air cleaner and combats climate change
Helps our state become more economically secure, self-reliant, and productive
This website can assist you in living an everyday life while progressing in the fight against climate change. That means making more intelligent and informed decisions about how climate change affects your life—and about how your life affects climate change.
As we turn from fossil fuels to all-electric appliances, it can strain a home's electric power supply and electric panel space. New technologies and tools can help manage large electric loads and possibly avert costly service upgrades.
If you're adding an induction range, heat pumps, or an EV charger, this presentation explains how to manage new or existing electrical loads without overloading your system.
The Cornish NH Energy Committee organized this forum on May 20, 2025. Topics:
Smart panels
Circuit splitters
Low-power appliances
120-volt induction stove with battery
120-volt heat pump water heater & clothes dryer
Energy monitoring devices & more