Energy

Home, Business & Municipal Energy Resources

Making choices that save energy -- in your home, business or community -- can have a positive impact on the environment while also saving you money. In this section of our website, CCE-Steuben offers resources that can help you learn about ways you can reduce energy consumption and use energy resources more efficiently.

Save by Going Solar!

Meet installers at this open house!

Weatherizing Techniques

Are your old wooden windows letting in drafts? Take time to assess the working conditions of your windows, and improve the overall comfort of your home.

Contact

Nancy Reigelsperger
Financial/Energy Education
nmr23@cornell.edu
(607) 664-2573

Last updated March 16, 2017

Energy

Upgrade Upstate

The Upgrade Upstate website is the upstate New York resident’s portal for home improvement projects that help your home become more comfortable, eco-friendly, and energy efficient.

Times are changing for the way you light your home. Incandescent bulbs are being phased out, and you no longer shop for watts, but instead for lumens. How are you going to make sense of all these changes and make the right choices?

House & Environment

This newsletter focuses on the physical form of human shelter and its relationship with social, psychological, and economic forces. Among the issues addressed in recent years are residential indoor air quality, on-site management of residential construction waste, housing affordability, and housing for special needs groups.