U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Weatherization & Intergovernmental Program

RePower Bainbridge Celebrates Year Milestone

March 15, 2012

Linda Allen had given up.

She couldn’t keep her 40-year-old Bainbridge Island cabin warmer than 50 degrees in the winter.

"It was so uncomfortable, I thought I would have to move," she said.

Then Allen stopped at the RePower Bainbridge booth at the Harvest Fair and signed up for its free energy efficiency assessment.

"They gave me back my home," she said.

Allen and 1,788 other islanders have had an assessment since the program launched officially mid-March last year. That's 45 percent of the group's ambitious goal of reaching 4,000 homes, or half the island's households.  Read more on this story in the March 15 edition of the Bainbridge Island Review.