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TWO FREE Energy Efficiency Workshops this week--Take Control of Your Energy and Plan Your Energy- Efficient Home

Join your neighbors to learn about and share ways to save energy and stop waste.

Choose from two locations and two topics this week:
Take Control of Your Energy Use---Wednesday Feb 17, 7--8:30--Redwood City Downtown Library.

Do you know the secret ways you can control energy waste? Discover the right ways to maximize your comfort and increase the efficiency of your home. It all starts with knowing how to use all of the information on your PG&E Online Account.

We will be teaching you and your neighbors about all the ways your PG&E Online Account can help you measure, track, and reduce your energy use. Light refreshments will be served.


Home Upgrades--Thursday Feb 18, 7-8:30--Step Up and Power Down Resource Center

Find out what's happening in Redwood City-Woodsidefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

1101 Laurel St., San Carlos:

Join your neighbors, enjoy hot soup and freshly-baked cookies, and learn about increasing your comfort and reducing energy waste with home improvements, and how to get rebates for doing that work. Talk to a contractor or BayREN Upgrade representative. Get ideas for planning your Energy Efficient Home!

Find out what's happening in Redwood City-Woodsidefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

We will teach you how to:

  • ‘Bundle’ home improvements to maximize rebates
  • Take the ‘whole house’ approach for comfort and energy efficiency
  • Conduct a Home Energy Assessment
  • Find a contractor


You’ll go home from both workshops with great ideas for saving energy AND a free LED light bulb!

You can bring your own tablet or laptop or one will be provided for you to use.

We would love to see you there! Seats are limited, so please RSVP to save your place.

RSVP: www.sancarlos.stepupandpowerdown.com/events orwww.redwoodcity.stepupandpowerdown.com/events.

If you can’t make it to this one, check the links above for upcoming dates and other workshops.

Choose your topic and place or go to both!

Step Up and Power Down is a partnership between Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the Cities of Redwood City and San Carlos, that is helping local residents take simple actions every day to reduce energy waste. These simple actions add up to make a big difference. Getting started is as easy as turning off room lights when you leave a room. Now imagine if every household in your community did that. That’s what Step Up and Power Down is all about.

Join us in supporting a more sustainable future and a better California.

We really can change the world with the flip of a switch.

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