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LET’S GO ELECTRIC
It’s time to give your home a glow up.

Let’s Go Electric

The future is electric, and it starts at home. Modern, all-electric appliances give you the heating and cooling you need in one appliance, delivering the perfect temperature and humidity for your home all year round. Going electric also removes harmful indoor emissions and improves air quality, creating safer and healthier homes for you and your loved ones. Explore our resources to switch to an electric water heater and home heating and cooling today.

Why Go Electric for Appliances?

Protect your loved ones and invest in your home for the future.

Modernize Key Appliances in Your Home

Take action in your home one appliance at a time with efficient and high-performing models.

Heat pump water heaters are cleaner, safer, and the most efficient method of heating water on the market. Upgrading to a heat pump water heater is better for the climate and may help reduce your energy bill. 


Heat pumps allow you to heat your home in the winter and cool your home in the summer. Because they operate in a stable and consistent way, they bring more comfort to your home and are more energy efficient than gas furnaces. 


Heat pump clothes dryers are more energy-efficient than their gas counterparts, don’t require ventilation, and are gentler on clothing.

If you would like access to the toolkit and the campaign’s full asset portfolio, please email sustainability@smcgov.org.

The Latest News & Events

Fixit Clinic @ Half Moon Bay Library
Mar
22

Fixit Clinics are fun community-based workshops where neighbors, friends, and families work collectively to learn how to repair broken items. We’ll provide a workspace, specialty tools, and volunteer Fixit Coaches to help you troubleshoot and provide routine maintenance to your household items and appliances! Register at https://bit.ly/itemcheckin

Interested in being a Fixit Coach?
It’s easy! Provide participants with 1) guidance on tools and 2) encouragement to investigate their broken item. Let them talk about how they used it and how it broke. That often provides valuable hints as to what’s wrong. See how much you can do without actually handling the item. Empower the item’s owner to do the troubleshooting and disassembly. Register to be a Fixit Coach here.

This event is hosted in partnership with the San Mateo County Libraries.

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