Posted on 08/16/2024 5:34:47 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
Gov. Kathy Hochul, along with state officials and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm, announced Thursday that low-income New Yorkers are now eligible to receive rebates for energy efficiency upgrades through a federal program called the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEAR) Program, which aims to lower household energy costs.
The governor, at a press event held at the Andromeda Community Center in Long Island City, unveiled the Biden administration’s new initiative that will help reduce household utility expenses via a rebate program that incentivizes energy efficiency upgrades. The plan, which stems from the Inflation Reduction Act and is part of the Investing in America agenda, aims to help low-income communities across the nation collectively save $8.8 billion through the installation of energy-efficient upgrades like heat pumps, upgraded electrical panels, and insulation at a reduced cost.
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If New York was the first to rush out with it, that proves that it’s some sort of Cashcow corruption.
And open the windows when it gets too hot.
Yep. I have tenants. Ask me how I know.
It’s not a rebate. It’s handout.
We don’t know anyone here in NYS who has saved money with a heat pump.
And most of the folks with that income restriction likely don’t live in a home with an upgraded electrical service.
Not that Albany or it’s Deep State masters give a bleep.
Nothing more than a subsidy for the green folks.
And guess what, includes so called “moderate income households”, too...
https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/EmPower-New-York-Program
But two huge problems in NYS.
First, 5 to 10 grand ain’t gonna go far.
Two, getting a decent contractor.
Whoever benefits from this, it’s not gonna be the poor.
Heat pumps are inefficient in NY....temperatures too cold in Upstate. Had one when I lived in Virginia.
Bureaucrats and union members is what it reads to me.
Designed to help low income residents? Example: most low income people in NYC are renters, not owners. Regardless of where they live, this is an income transfer from taxpayers to property owners.
We only know one family who has kept the heat pump they had installed.
The rest have ripped them out.
Three reasons: They don’t heat/cool worth a damn. They don’t save money. And they require repair/replacement far more often than a nat gas furnace.
Right now it’s a “rebate” next year it will be a command to switch over
More like a cash infusion to Home Depot and Lowes.
That is where most of this money is going to go.
They’re just the middle man.
“ We only know one family who has kept the heat pump they had installed.”
What part of the country is this?
How many “low income” people in New York actually own homes? And if they do, how many will show any interest in this whatsoever?
It will be a big fake homes, fake improvements scam—with kickbacks to the politicians.
Yet another voter bribe
More wealth redistribution and welfare.
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