Electrical Home Tour Set for Feb. 28
Join local environmental advocates, Prairie Hills RC&D and the nonprofit consumer group Illinois PIRG for a tour of an electrified home from 1-3 p.m., Saturday Feb. 28 in Macomb. 'The Clean and Affordable Homes: The Barreto- Freymiller Tour' will be held to show the benefits of clean energy technologies such as solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles and to provide information on how to get started.
'Thanks to new technologies, there’s never been a better time for people to use the air and heat around them to electrify their homes,” said Grace Kurtz, campaign associate at Illinois PIRG Education Fund.
“Generous clean energy incentives are available to Illinoisans. We hope that more homeowners will take advantage of them.”
Macomb residents Gary Freymiller and Ximena Barreto Gonzalez del Riego began transitioning to a fully electric home in 2022, starting with an electric heat pump water heater, followed by HVAC and solar panels.
