Electrified Home Tour

Do you know that electrifying your home can save you money, protect your and your children’s health, help reduce global warming, and keep you more comfortable?

Come learn how on the upcoming, free Electrified Home Tour, a new program of the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase.

We hope you’ll check out these green homes, take your own steps to electrify, and then reap the benefits:

• Savings: Transitioning to solar-powered, fully electrified homes and vehicles could save the average household between $1,050 and $2,585 per year in energy costs.

• Health: Protect your own, and your family’s health: cooking with a gas stove emits pollutants that are linked childhood asthma, heart problems, cancer, and other adverse health conditions.

• Comfort: Heat pumps, which both heat and cool your home, do a better job of keeping your home at a constant, comfortable temperature than a gas furnace - while using much less energy to do so.

• Climate: Burning fossil fuels in buildings is a major source of climate warming

The Electrified Home Tour is an in-person, free event that will take place at four electrified homes in Alameda and Contra Costa County.

Friendly, knowledgeable homeowners and volunteers will be available to answer your questions.

Choose the homes you would like to visit, and see them in any order you like.

You can register for this event here. Attendance will be capped: sign up now if you would like to participate.

The homes that will be open are:

Stefanie Pruegel’s fully-electrified home in San Leandro

Janet Parks’ home in Kensington

Kathy and Mike’s home in San Pablo (accessed via 25 garden steps)

Anne Chambers and Ed McAlpine’s fully-electrified home in Moraga