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Bedford's Energy Gains: 'Like Taking 118 Cars Off the Road'

Close to 300 homes have had energy audits and upgrades through Bedford's Energize program.

“By any measure, we’ve been very successful,” the director of Bedford’s two-year-old energy-efficiency effort told the town board Tuesday.

Tom Bregman said the initiative, Energize Bedford, helps homeowners assess their energy use, then develops and implements ways to cut waste. By the end of last month, he said, 299 homes had gone through Energize’s retrofit operation, completing energy audits and equipment upgrades enroute to saving some $350,000 in otherwise wasted energy.

Beyond dollars, the environment benefitted, Bregman said, calling the new energy efficiencies the equivalent of “taking 118 cars off the road.” 

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Mark Thielking, Bedford's director of energy resources, preceded and followed Bregman to the microphone. He said the Northern Westchester Energy Action Consortium, already comprising most municipalities in the county’s north end, expects shortly to add Lewisboro, Pound Ridge, North Salem, Peekskill, White Plains, Croton and Orange County to the ranks. Fourteen communities forged the initial coalition in 2009, and later obtained a $2.6 million Department of Energy grant.

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