Cut your heating bills this winter

Heating Assistance and 80-100% Off Weatherizing Your Home

By State Senator Victoria Gu

Rhode Island, like a number of other states, has a free energy audit program that works in two steps:

1) the free energy audit identifies places in your home that would benefit from air sealing, insulation, and more.

2) the program pays for 80-100% of the cost of doing the weatherization work.

Every Rhode Island homeowner (and tenant, with landlord permission) can request their audit and benefit from these energy savings. Schedule your audit at https://www.riseengineering.com/residential/get-started or through RIEnergy’s website

Know someone in need of emergency assistance to pay for heating oil/fuel? A couple places to contact are:

Westerly: Jonnycake Center of Westerly

Charlestown: The Charlestown Senior Center

South County towns: Tri-County CAP for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) applications, Heat Pumps and Weatherization, and Emergency Boiler Repair