Nearly seven hundred members attended a Home Energy Expo sponsored by Meade County RECC and Big Rivers Electric on October 16, defying the organizers' expectations.
Sponsored by Meade County RECC and Big Rivers Electric, the event went beyond offering tips for making an existing home more efficient. Mini-seminars also provided information for people building or remodeling a home or considering the purchase of a modular home.
The Expo also offered advice on adding and replacing windows, compact fluorescent lighting, radon mitigation, heating and cooling with heat pumps and types of cellulose insulation.
“People really are hungry for that knowledge,” said Burns Mercer, CEO of Meade County RECC. “They sat there and listened from 6:00 O’Clock that night till 9:30 to these different seminars about energy efficiency and that was impressive to me that they were that hungry for that knowledge.”
The co-ops’ five Grand Prizes were truly grand: the purchase and installation of an Air to Air Heat Pump; purchase and installation of Sun Windows; an Energy Star certified refrigerator; purchase and installation of new insulation; and an electric fireplace.
All attendees received efficiency boosting goody bags from the co-op that included compact fluorescent lightbulbs, caulk, an Energy Saver's booklet and ink pens.
Meade County RECC is a distribution cooperative, serving over 27,000 members in Meade, Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, and Ohio counties in Kentucky