It appears our energy bill already has dropped 18% to 20%! With the incentives and rebates available, we'll have close to a 50% savings in cost, not including lower Pepco bills. The Energy Coach has been terrific.
Benefits & Requirements
There are many benefits to participating in STEP-UP, all designed to make it easy and affordable to improve your home’s energy efficiency. Benefits include:
- Personal, step-by-step support from the STEP-UP Energy Coach;
- Guidance on selecting and working with home energy assessors and contractors;
- Access to attractive financing;
- Support from a Technical Consultant to answer specific technical questions, and provide
- quality assurance reviews to help ensure that improvement recommendations are
- appropriate and your home was fixed correctly;
- Direct financial rebates, tax credits and other incentives.
There are also a few requirements to participating in STEP-UP, including:
- You must be a UP resident;
- You must agree to have a qualified energy auditor complete an energy assessment on
- your home;
- You must be willing to share your utility bill data with STEP-UP. (This information will
- only be shared without personal identifying information, and is for purposes of tracking
- program impact.)
For more details, please see the STEP-UP Program Benefits & Requirements or contact the Energy Coach.




