Energy Coordinating Agency

1. Provide effective and efficient energy retrofits and system upgrades to low-income households.

2 Provide education and information to residents on ways they can save energy in their household.

3. Provide state of the art training to individuals that equips them with nationally recognized credentials in the green trades.

We offer three responses to the problem. First, we provide upgrades to the building envelope and heating systems; second, we provide community based education on how residents can make changes to decrease their energy usage in the home; and finally, we train the next generation of green trade workers, with an emphasis on energy efficiency interventions.

After thirty years, ECA has a broad and capable network. Our fifteen Neighborhood Energy Centers are rooted, experienced, and connect thousands of households with essential services. We maintain good relationships with deeply skilled subcontractors in a variety of building trades, with many area building trades professionals having made their start with ECA contracts. Our staff have well over a century of collective experience in HVAC troubleshooting and problem solving, and each winter the Heating team repairs or replaces around 5000 heaters. Our trainers are certified to award certifications like EPA Lead RRP, and our programs in energy efficiency follow nationally accredited standards.

ECA has:

- helped low-income households save over $250 million dollars
- weatherized over 40,000 homes
- repaired or replaced over 60,000 heating systems
- trained over 5000 energy efficiency and green building trades professionals
- averted over 160,000 tons of CO2 emmisions