ENERGY COSTS and Strategies to Reduce Your Bills

Summary: Making the energy future more affordable

When: Jan 21, 2026

Time:00:00 - 01:00

Description

Energy Costs & Strategies to Reduce Your Bills

With Carrie Katan of the Green Energy Consumers Alliance

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Are you worried about winter energy bills? You are not alone! Please join Carrie Katan, of the Green Energy Consumers Alliance, as she helps us understand our utility bills, reveals energy saving options from the utilities themselves, and looks at energy efficiency actions to take in our households. Carrie is a wonderful speaker and energy guru, who has followed the energy marketplace in detail. She can take a complicated heating/cooling landscape and make it comprehensible! Topics include different consumer energy rates, aggregated electricity (like Acton Power Choice), income eligible options, the heat pump discount, and options for many savings through Mass Save (insulation, air sealing, and rebates on efficient appliances and HVAC equipment).       

She will also share thoughts about our energy future. What does the aging infrastructure of our natural gas system mean for winter bills? What is the potential for our electric grid and possible roadblocks to achieving more energy independence? Is the transition to clean energy more expensive than fossil fuels? Or are there important savings in the long run? Finally, are there affordable heating/cooling success stories here in Massachusetts, in the region, and beyond?

We hope that webinar participants can take away concrete actions to help all households embrace a healthier, more affordable energy future.

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This event is sponsored by EnergizeActon.org in cooperation with MassEnergize.org, a statewide climate action platform of over 25 Massachusetts communities and organizations, of which EnergizeActon.org is a part. Locally, EnergizeActon.org is sponsored by the Acton Climate Coalition and the Town of Acton Sustainability Office.

Is your New Year's Resolution to get more involved in your community? Would you like to help EnergizeActon.org? Contact us at EnergizeActon.org@gmail.com. We meet the first Wednesday of each month. However, there are many non-meeting ways to be involved. Thanks for your support!