The city of Seattle today announced a new strategy to help homeowners save energy.  The Green Building Capital Initiative offers 5,000 residential home energy audits that analyze a home’s heating and cooling systems. Funded through a partnership with Puget Sound Energy and Seattle City Light, the audits will be available at $95, a steep discount from the normal cost of $600. Call 206-684-3000 to schedule an audit. 

There is also a loan program so residents will be able to make energy-saving home improvements. The public-private partnerships is funded, in part, by $1.2 million of federal stimulus money from the Federal
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant.