Green Home Improvement Webinar Series 2023: Making an Electrification Plan for Your Home

Marin residents are switching out their old gas appliances to efficient electric-powered alternatives. This process is known as “electrification”. People choose to electrify existing homes for different reasons, including wanting to purchase and install cutting edge appliances, to take advantage of an existing solar PV system, to improve indoor air quality by replacing gas burning equipment, lowering their greenhouse gas footprint, and more.
This webinar covers the information a homeowner needs to know to plan for home electrification projects, including:
The role of energy efficiency
The different types of electrification projects
How to know when an electrical panel needs to be upsized
Strategies on how homeowners can fully electrify their homes using their existing panel
How to communicate with contractors
Links to Programs Discussed:
Rebates for Electrification Projects
TECH Clean California (state-wide program) techcleanca.com/
BayREN Home+ (Bay Area-wide program) www.bayren.org...
Electrify Marin (Marin program) www.marincount...
Features Speakers:
Josie Gaillard: is a retired product manager whose work at SunPower in the early 2000’s helped launch the company from a small start-up to a multinational solar manufacturer with a downstream installation business, a first of its kind in the solar business. More recently, while serving as a commissioner on Menlo Park’s Environmental Quality Commission, she co-wrote the city’s Climate Action Plan and, in order to test the feasibility of electrifying existing homes, fully electrified her own home. Josie has a BA from Princeton and an MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Tom Kabat: is a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years’ experience at the nexus of utility program design and implementation, hands-on building science and utility resource planning. Tom works on a variety of climate preservation projects including pursuing Reach Codes, Climate Action Plans, DIY electrification of his own home, while assisting with others, co-authoring guides to electrification, developing a “Watt Diet” technique and practice for electrifying buildings without upsizing the electric panel. Tom serves on the boards of SunWork.org and Carbon Free Silicon Valley.