1-2-3 Electrify Workshop Series

Beginning this evening in Louisville, you can learn how to electrify your home, replacing all fossil fuel-powered appliances, systems, and vehicles with electrically-powered equivalents. The City of Lafayette, the City of Louisville, and the Town of Superior, in collaboration with Xcel’s Partners in Energy, have organized a workshop series on home electrification. The first workshop—dedicated to planning for home electrification—takes place tonight (Monday 10 June) from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Louisville Recreation Center. The second workshop—dedicated to investing in home electrification—takes place on Saturday 13 July from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Superior Community Center. The third workshop—dedicated to optimizing and maintaining home electrification—takes place on Thursday 15 August from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Louisville Recreation Center. (Actually, there was an introductory workshop on 8 May, but the subsequent three workshops should prove comprehensive.) View the 1-2-3 Electrify website for more information.

Electrifying our homes is an essential step towards meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Accords. Appliances like natural gas-powered stoves and ovens, systems like natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters, and vehicles like gasoline-powered cars and trucks constitute our homes’ most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Replacing these appliances, systems, and vehicles with electrically-powered equivalents enables our homes to run on renewably generated electricity, which we can source from a rooftop solar array, a community solar farm subscription, Xcel’s RenewableConnect, or just Xcel’s rapidly greening grid.