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    TVA, Memphis utility celebrate 500th home completed under EnergyRight efficiency program

    Dec. 6, 2021
    The program is for low-income households and offers cost-efficient means to update appliances, attic insulation, duct sealing, window replacement and other improvements
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    An energy efficiency program for low-income households in Memphis is celebrating its 500th home to receive the upgrades today.

    Members of EnergyRight, Memphis Light, Gas and Water, the Tennessee Valley Authority, city officials and residents are gathering at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Westwood to celebreate the milestone for local energy efficiency projects.

    The EnergyRight effort has now completed upgrades for 500 homes in the area, all of them involving low-income households. The work can include updated appliances, attic insulation, duct sealing, window replacement and other improvements.

    The work is intended to reduce energy use and bills. In addition to the celebration, the TVA will play host to a home energy workshop.

    The TVA EnergyRight website offers connections for both businesses and residential customers wanting to find contractors and incentives to boost energy efficiency.

    The EnergyRight partnership also includes financing options for energy upgrades.

    Carbon reduction advocates say that energy efficiency upgrades can be a "first fuel" in cutting emissions. 

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    (Rod Walton, senior editor for EnergyTech, is a 14-year veteran of covering the energy industry both as a newspaper and trade journalist. He can reached at [email protected]).

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    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

    For EnergyTech editorial inquiries, please contact Managing Editor Rod Walton at [email protected].

    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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