Recently, the folks at East Bay Community Energy got to thinking about expanding its services, the better to deliver on its mission: buying clean energy and transmitting it via PG&E infrastructure to communities across the East Bay.
BlocPower installs a mini-split air source heat pump in a residential building in Oakland, CA, … [+] October 21, 2021.
BlocPower
With that in mind, the four-year-old not-for-profit public agency reached out to BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based company formed in 2014 that retrofits buildings in low-income communities with emission-reducing solar panels and other technology.
The result: a just-announced program for low-to-moderate income single-family households already served by EBCE, aimed at electrifying 60 homes in EBCE’s service territory. That includes installing clean heating, cooling and hot water systems, and…