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Maintain Proper Air Care throughout your central air conditioning and heating system
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Maintain Proper Air Care
Your indoor air quality can be greatly affected by ventilation, dust, fumes from household products and smoke. To ensure the air inside your home is clean and safe, follow these simple tips:
1. Check your ductwork
- Look for rapid dust buildup around vents or in your home, because that’s usually a sign of leaky ducts.
- Schedule FPL to perform a Duct System Test to determine if you have leaks or separations in your ducts that are costing you money.
2. Repair leaky ducts
- Fixing leaky ducts helps to improve air quality because less dirt and dust will be drawn into your home through the holes in your ductwork.
3. Protect your air quality
- Do not keep cleaning products in the same closet as your indoor A/C unit; otherwise the fumes from these products may be circulated throughout your home.
4. Watch your fireplace
- Don’t operate a wood-burning fireplace at the same time as your central air conditioner or heating system.
- Avoid using exhaust fans (e.g., your stove fan) when operating your fireplace to keep from drawing smoke or other contaminants into your home.
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BREAKING: Proposed Tax Credit Extension
Friday, December 10th, 2010
ACCA (Air Conditioning Contractors of America) have a new website feature helps contractors and Consumers Find Energy Efficiency Incentives – this wonderful page is worth a look here is the link: http://www.acca.org/consumer/dsire
FP&L (Florida Power & Light) Residential A/C Rebate Schedule link: Rebate Schedule.
Updated 04/26/12: The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to hear testimony today on various bills to extend the tax incentives that expired at the end of 2011 or will expire at the end of this year.
According to the Joint Tax Committee, there are approximately 70 tax incentives eligible for extension by Congress, many of them are targeted to help small business owners make capital investments in their businesses.
Members of the Congress will have the opportunity to testify in support of legislation to extend expiring tax provisions they have introduced or co-sponsored legislation this year. There is expected to be discussion of extending the tax credit for the installing higher efficiency HVAC equipment (Section 25C), construction of energy efficient homes (Section 45L), the 15 year straight line depreciation for qualified improvements to leasehold, restaurants, and retail buildings (Section 168), bonus depreciation for small businesses (Section 168), and increased expensing allowance to $500,000/$2,000,000 and expansion of Section 179.
As a member of the Residential Energy Efficient Tax Credit Industry Coalition, ACCA submitted testimony urging for the extension and expansion of the residential energy tax credit. The coalition is seeking a robust energy efficiency tax credit for qualified products, including furnaces, central air conditioners, and heat pumps, of 10 percent of the purchase price up to $1,000. The coalition believes that a $1,000 tax credit is generally the minimum incentive needed to motivate consumers to improve their homes by purchasing these higher-performing products, and to do so in sizable enough numbers to positively influence residential energy consumption.
To read the Member Proposals Related To Certain Tax Provisions That Either Expired In 2011 Or Will Expire In 2012, Click here. End of Update 04/26/12.
The Senate version of the tax extender package negotiated by the President Obama and Congressional leaders was released last night. As expected it includes a two year extension of the Bush tax cuts for all income levels, lower capital gains tax rate for investors, increases the exemption for the estate tax to $5 million per individual and lowers the tax rate to 35%, and enacts the Alternative Minimum Tax “patch” for 2010 and 2011, and other pro-small businesses provision.
Unfortunately, while the tax package does include an extension of the 25c nonbusiness energy tax credits, (the official IRS name for the homeowner’s energy efficiency tax credit), last minute modifications were made resetting the credit value to pre-Stimulus bill levels of 10% of the installed costs with maximum credit for all qualified retrofits of $500.
The tax package also reinstates the caps on equipment that were in place in 2006 and 2007. That means the maximum tax credits available to an eligible taxpayer for installing a qualified central air condition and heat pump are $300, and the maximum tax credit available for a qualified furnace or boiler is $150.
The tax extender package also reinstates the lifetime credit caps which disqualify any homeowner who has claimed more than $500 in 25c tax credits since January 1, 2005, from any further credits.
Finally, the qualifying guidelines for natural gas and propane hot water boilers, and oil furnaces and hot water boilers are increased to 95% AFUE.
I’m still wading through all the language to see what other changes may be buried in the legislative text.
Still no word on whether or not substantive changes will allowed during Senate or House debate, more details about that will be forthcoming, including how you can support any efforts through grassroots action.
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Cash For Clunker Rebates Program To Upgrade Residential Central AC Systems Information Here
Monday, August 9th, 2010
ACCA (Air Conditioning Contractors of America) have a new website feature helps contractors and Consumers Find Energy Efficiency Incentives – this wonderful page is worth a look here is the link: http://www.acca.org/consumer/dsire
Read the 04/26/12 update: Click here.
Updated 2/29/12:
There is a bill circulating the Senate that, if passed, will create tax credits for consumers that reduce their energy usage by at least 20%. The bill establishes a $2,000 base credit for the first 20% decrease with a $500 stepend for each 5% reduction thereafter. The credit will be capped at $5,000 or 30% of the qualified expenditures, whichever is the lesser amount.
Experts have estimated that this bill will create about 19,000 jobs through contracting, supply, and manufacturing while saving 1.7 billion kilowatthours and 18 trillion Btu of fuel by 2016. This is enough energy to power 375,000 homes!
No one is sure if Congress will pass the bill as it does not identify where the funding will come from, but the fact that energy saving bills are still being considered in Congress is a good sign. This shows that the national mindset toward energy efficiency is changing, becoming more important to the everyday consumer. End of 2/29/12 update.
FP&L (Florida Power & Light) Residential A/C Rebate Schedule link:
New Rebate Schedule (Effective March 2012), Rebate Schedule (Old Effective 2008).
million) will then be disbursed on a percentage basis to each unpaid and approved solar rebate.
For more information, please view the official State website at www.rebates.com/floridahvac.
Reactivation of HVAC Rebate
the following resolution for funding the HVAC Rebate Program.
Consumers who purchased or contracted for purchase a qualifying HVAC or geothermal unit
through a Florida-licensed contractor between August 29 and September 14, 2010 will be eligible
for the $1,500 HVAC Rebate. Consumers must have the completed rebate application, including
all required documentation, at the rebate processing center by November 30, 2010.
A copy of the HVAC Rebate application has been attached to this Alert for your convenience.
All qualifying HVAC rebates will be paid first from the available funding. It is anticipated that the
HVAC rebates will total approximately $2.47 million. The remaining funds (approximately $28
million) will then be disbursed on a percentage basis to each unpaid and approved solar rebate.
On Tuesday November 16, 2010, the Florida Legislature passed House Bill 15A approving funding for all qualified applications for the Florida Energy Star Residential HVAC Rebate program with constraints. To qualify:
- The HVAC or geothermal system must have been purchased or contracted for purchase with a Florida-licensed contractor between August 30, 2010, and September 14, 2010.
- The new HVAC or geothermal system must be fully installed before November 30, 2010.
- A complete application (with four required documents included) must be submitted to our rebate administrator on or before November 30, 2010.
Government is getting ready to Launch Florida Cash for Clunkers for A/C’s in August
- The amount of the rebate is still to be determined.
- Window or room air conditioning units will not be included.
- Only residential home installations will be covered.
- The state rebate can be combined with the $1500 federal energy tax credit available & the Rheem Consumer Cash Back Rebate
- Rheem RASL-JEC Series Equipment has an 18 seer efficiency rating. A 10 year compressor warranty, 5 year Coil warranty and 5 year warranty on all other parts. Also, has 10 Years Conditional Unit Exchange.
- Rheem RASL-JEZ Series Equipment has an 18 seer efficiency rating. A 10 year compressor, 10 year Coil warranty and 10 year warranty on all other parts. Also, has 10 Years Conditional Unit Exchange.
- Rheem RARL-JEC Series Equipment has a 16 seer efficiency rating. A 10 year compressor, 10 year Coil warranty and 10 year warranty on all other parts. Also, has 10 Years Conditional Unit Exchange.
- Rheem RARL-JEZ Series Equipment has a 16 seer efficiency rating. A 10 year compressor, 10 year Coil warranty and 10 year warranty on all other parts. Also, has 10 Years Conditional Unit Exchange.
- Rheem RAPL-JEZ Series Equipment has a 14 seer efficiency rating. A 10 Year compressor, 10 year Coil warranty and 10 year warranty on all other parts. Also, has 10 Years Conditional Unit Replacement. Rheem Prestige Series 14 SEER is equipped with the Comfort Control SystemTM.
- Rheem RAPM-JEZ Series Equipment has a 14 seer efficiency rating. A 10 Year compressor, 5 year Coil warranty and 5 year warranty on all other parts. Also, has 5 Years Conditional Unit Exchange. Rheem Prestige Series 14.5 SEER is equipped with the Comfort Control SystemTM.
- Rheem RAPL Series Equipment has a 14 seer efficiency rating. A 10 Year compressor, 5 year Coil warranty and 5 year warranty on all other parts.
- Rheem RAPM Series Equipment has a 14 seer efficiency rating. A 10 Year compressor, 5 year Coil warranty and 5 year warranty on all other parts. Also, features R-410A Refrigerant in Rheem Classic Series 14.5 SEER Premium Condensing Unit.
- Rheem RQPW-B Series Equipment has a 14 seer Gas efficiency rating, an 80% HSPF rating. A 10 year compressor, 5 year Coil warranty and 5 year warranty on all other parts.
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