Join your neighbors in helping our community fight climate change!
As we try our best to get through these tough heat waves, nearly all of us are using more energy for cooling, whether for air conditioning or fans. Most of us don’t think about the fact that on peak days for electricity usage, utilities bring on the most polluting power plants to cover the demand. Read below for one way you can help to cut your peak demand, reduce your carbon footprint, and also save money!
The Upper Nyack Green Committee is promoting a new program to lower your energy use, reduce your carbon footprint – and save you money. This program, called Meltek, is entirely free and is authorized through Orange & Rockland.
Meltek can help you reduce your energy use at peak times on hot summer days. By voluntarily shifting our energy use to off peak hours – and by becoming more efficient, we can reduce the use of the dirtiest power plants on peak hot days.
Meltek alerts participants ahead of time to peak electricity demand days – and gives you ways to reduce your energy use — and shift it to off peak. You get paid for reducing your energy use, or you can donate the savings to charity, to plant trees, or to buy carbon offset credits. All of this is voluntary.
When we do this as a community, we can truly make a difference!
You can learn more at www.meltek.io and sign up or download the Meltek app at app.meltek.io.
Upper Nyack Green Committee 