News Times Live Saving energy begins at home
By Robert Miller THE NEWS-TIMES
If you have an old-fashioned oil furnace, you're burning money as well as fuel.
Now, the state will give you $500 to get rid of your outdated furnace and get a new, energy-efficient model -- smaller, better for your home and the environment.
"The furnaces they sell now are at 80 to 85 percent efficient," Bill Crowe, president of DDD Heating and Air Conditioning in Danbury and Ridgefield said Monday. "Some of the new models are even better.
"With old furnaces, you're probably only looking at 60 to 70 percent efficiency."
The $500 rebate is one of the features in the state's new energy bill, passed Friday by the General Assembly's House of Representatives and Saturday by the state Senate.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell must now sign the bill into law. ..."
