Keeping PACE with Green Energy Movement
Like a lot of homeowners this summer, my wife and I are looking to put new windows into our home. We moved last October, leaving our downtown condo when the impending arrival of our second daughter promised to make things a little too tight. A drafty winter and a number of windows that, well, just couldn’t be opened this spring demonstrated a need – and President Obama’s Energy Tax Credit cemented the deal. As I’ve learned, like almost everything associated with a new-old house, windows ain’t cheap – and the windows that qualify for the tax credit really ain’t cheap. The increased cost takes 20 years (on average) to recoup based on the marginal energy savings (something to do with U-factors and Solar Heat Gain Coefficients according to Home Depot). But the government wouldn’t have to pay you to do it if it made good economic sense.
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