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Electrify Your Home Series – Part 4: Replacing your gas or wood burning fireplace with electric, and More!

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Final Chat in our 4-part Series

Did you know that Fairfax has a goal to be climate neutral by 2030? Be part of that solution and ditch natural gas in your home. Electrify Marin is a county-wide effort that encourages Marin residents to replace gas powered appliances with electric ones to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve indoor air quality!

Change the paradigm and switch to a beautiful electric fireplace!  We know what you’re thinking, but join us to learn more!

At the end of this series, you totally understand the benefits of electrification and be prepared to electrify!

INSPIRATION — Watch this video for why you should electrify!

 

Be part of the climate solution!!!

Chat downloads:

Sept 3 – We learned about the Gas Appliance Contribution to your Climate Footprint and why having a plan in place for replacement is critical.  Download meeting materials:  Video Recording of Zoom Chat – Click here to watch!!  Copies of Presentation — Ann Edminster’s great presentation; – Electrify Marin’s presentation [ with great overview of available rebates!]

Sept 10th – We learned some of the components of putting a plan in place to replace your hot water and space heating systems; the importance of making your home energy efficient, and the rebates available. Video Recording of Zoom Chat – Click here to watch!!  Copies of Presentation – Electrify Marin Chat #2; BayRen.

Sept 17th – We learned about battery as a back-up energy storage; the role of solar in resiliency, and benefits of Induction stoves.  Video recording of Zoom chat – click here! Online Guidance for Home Batteries.  Electrify Marin presentation.

Sept 24th – We reviewed the importance of phasing out all gas appliances and discussed heat pump clothes dryers, spas&hot tubs.  We reviewed the new technologies around electric fireplaces.  Video recording of Zoom chat – click here!   Electrify Marin presentation.

Thank you to Electrify Marin, BayRen, Jody Timms and all of you for for your input to make this series informative and fun!

If you have questions at info@sustainablefairfax.org.

Marin Clean Energy Action Needed

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Marin Clean Energy logo with tagline "My Community, My Choice"Marin Clean Energy is on it’s way to becoming a reality in 2010! Eight towns and the County voted last fall to join together to set up our community based clean energy system. Now we’re into the nitty-gritty details and you can help all of Marin get the best Marin Clean Energy System we can have.

   MCE has the potential to integrate energy efficiency and local power generation. Energy efficiency is the cheapest ‘clean energy’ available and we would create good local jobs. Public Goods Funds are available to Marin and we should make sure that we get the funding, because Marin Clean Energy can do better Energy Efficiency, Solar, and Low-income programs than PG&E.

Please email your MCE county representative and your MCE town councilor and say that we need to bring energy efficiency and local power generation front and center into all MCE proposals.