TIMES RECORD • March 5, 2023
Freeport Climate Action Now recently presented an informative program giving the audience of 50 homeowners resources to assess their home’s energy movement. Claire Betze has a business, Building Works, that offers comprehensive home energy assessments for new home design and improving existing home energy systems. Jon Riley, an energy auditor, who started Casco Bay Insulation in Westbrook, spoke about health and safety issues associated with deteriorating insulation from the 1970s that was made with vermiculite and should be removed. Richard Burbank, president of Evergreen Home Performance, recommended doing your home energy education and assessment, weather-stripping doors and windows and window insulation as things a homeowner can do themselves. Efficiency Maine continues to provide $600 rebates to homeowners for doing energy assessment and air sealing. ~ Nancy Chandler