Puget Sound Energy’s Free HomePrint AssessmentTM Provides Customers with Energy-Saving Recommendations

BELLEVUE, Wash.--()--Puget Sound Energy electric customers looking to make energy-saving home improvements can receive a free in-home energy evaluation from 35 local, independent PSE pre-qualified home-energy specialists as part of PSE’s updated HomePrint Assessment™ program.

“HomePrint Assessment can help our customers – at no cost – better understand their home’s basic energy use and provide them with tools to take action to save energy, money and the environment,” said Cal Shirley, PSE vice president of Energy Efficiency Services. “Our goal to provide 5,000 assessments to customers in 2011, has the potential to save 2.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to serve more than 233 homes for one year.”

The in-home assessment includes an overview of a home’s major energy systems, including space heating, water heating, insulation and appliances. Customers then receive a summary of energy-saving recommendations based on their home’s energy assessment, information on PSE rebates for energy-efficient products, contractor referrals and other helpful energy-saving tips. HomePrint Assessment also provides customers with on-site installation of up to 50 free compact fluorescent light bulbs, which use up to 75 percent less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. Every light bulb changed can save more than $40 in electricity costs over the lifetime of the bulb.

HomePrint Assessment is an updated version of HomePrintTM program originally launched as a pilot in 2009, which provided qualified PSE customers’ with an instant rebate off the market-set price of a home performance evaluation.

PSE offers HomePrint Assessment services throughout the utility’s nine-county electric service area. To qualify, homeowners or renters must be a PSE electric customer living in an existing single-family property or attached housing with four units or less.

For more information or a referral to an independent PSE-qualified HomePrint Assessment specialist in your area, call a PSE Energy Advisor at 1-800-562-1482, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or visit PSE.com/HomePrint.

About Puget Sound Energy

Washington state’s oldest local energy utility, Puget Sound Energy serves more than 1 million electric customers and 750,000 natural gas customers in 11 counties. A subsidiary of Puget Energy, PSE meets the energy needs of its customers through incremental, cost-effective energy efficiency, procurement of sustainable energy resources, and far-sighted investment in the energy-delivery infrastructure. PSE employees are dedicated to providing great customer service and delivering energy that is safe, reliable, reasonably priced, and environmentally responsible. For more information, visit www.PSE.com.

Contacts

Puget Sound Energy
MacKenzie McDowell, 1-888-831-7250
PSENewsroom@pse.com

Contacts

Puget Sound Energy
MacKenzie McDowell, 1-888-831-7250
PSENewsroom@pse.com