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.