Smart Homeowners Plan First
⏳ Make your home heat pump ready!
✅ Learn A Bit Of Building Science, Then Follow Our 3-step Retrofit Process: Score → Explore → Renew The Core
✅ Qualify for thousands in rebates & tax credits
✅ Slash your energy use by 50%
🔧Make a plan for a well-insulated, air-sealed home.
📚 Course Overview
Introduction: The Building Science Connection
🔎 Understand Why A Home Is Efficient Or Not
- ✅ Learn: The science behind insulation, air sealing, HVAC, and ventilation and its impact on comfort, energy use, and moisture control.
- ✅ Outcome: By the end of this section, you’ll have a science based understanding of the inputs you'll need to gather to measure home energy performance.
Step 1: Score
🔎 Understand Where Your Home Is Efficient And Not
- ✅ Home Energy Score: Use the DOE's Home Energy Score tool (demo version) to measure your home’s efficiency and see where energy is lost.
- ✅ The Building Science Connection: What are you measuring—and why does it matter for your home’s comfort, efficiency, and upgrade plan?
Step 2: Explore
Every home is different, but most can follow one of three upgrade packages—ranging from quick, low-cost fixes to full electrification and decarbonization.
- ✅ Compare Three Retrofit Paths:
1️⃣ Basic Fixes – Air sealing & attic insulation (most effective, lowest cost)
2️⃣ Intermediate Upgrades – High-efficiency HVAC, window and wall upgrades
3️⃣ Advanced Decarbonization – Heat pumps, solar, and all-electric systems - ✅ Prioritize Wisely:
Start with safety—check for hazards like outdated wiring, asbestos, or moisture before weatherizing or electrifying. - ✅ Plan Your Electrification Journey:
After reviewing the packages, use our interactive Electrification Planning Checklist to explore appliance upgrades, electric panel needs, and available rebates, tax credits, and financing. - ✅ Outcome:
You’ll have a clear, personalized retrofit and electrification plan—backed by building science and financial support options—so you can take action with confidence.
Step 3: Renew The Core
🛠 Renew Your Core Systems!
- ✅ Retrofit Roadmap: Create a detailed Scope of Work for each trade, ensuring efficiency upgrades happen in the right order.
- ✅ Hiring & Communicating with Contractors: Learn how to ask the right questions, compare bids, and coordinate work efficiently.
- ✅ Maximize Your Savings: Explore utility, state, and federal incentives, including the federal tax credit for air-source heat pumps, insulation, windows, and more (valid through 2032).
- ✅ Outcome: By the end of this section, you'll be ready to hire contractors and complete your home upgrades with confidence.
🔥 Why Cities & States Are Watching
🏙️ Green Home Club partners with cities and states to create localized versions of this course—helping homeowners and contractors cut energy and cut carbon emissions by 50%.
📌 Interested in a version for your area? Contact us to discuss customization, branding, and local incentives.
