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Sep 22, 2009 2:12 pm US/Mountain

Program Helps Denver Homeowners Save Energy

Reporting
Andrea Lopez
DENVER (CBS4) ― Denver is getting millions to not only conserve energy in its buildings, but to pass on to homeowners.

Nearly four dozen people in the Bellevue Hale neighborhood in Denver are being audited, but these audits are not to check up on how they handle their taxes, but how they handle energy.

David Youngstrom is on the neighborhood association's board and explains how this neighborhood benefitted from the Greenprint Denver program.

"We got 64 trees planted in the neighborhood," Youngstrom said. "We signed up 33 people for recycling."

At no cost to homeowners who financially qualify, the city will help them make energy efficient changes and conduct energy audits to help people cut energy costs in their homes.

That program has received a huge financial boost. The city just got more than $6 million from the Department of Energy to help certain neighborhoods in Denver. Half of it will benefit the community, including a city-wide bicycle sharing program and 4,000 new trees planted.

The other half will go toward making energy improvements in the city. They include energy audits at rec center and libraries, green changes in city buildings that should save taxpayers $4,000 a year and changing out traffic lights at 200 intersections with lights that use 88 percent less energy. Work will begin this fall on these projects.


Additional Information:

http://www.greenprintdenver.org

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