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plan your home electrification with this new free tool (www.rewiringamerica.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Dippy@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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By entering some information about your home and appliances, they generate a basic plan for your next upgrades, including price estimates, available rebates, and estimated energy savings. Takes like 5 minutes, 10 minutes if you want to read all the details.

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[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like a good idea, but it forces you to create an account after the first two steps. Plus from the text it looks like this is for US homes only, which may still be a good thing but potentially of limited use for us Europeans.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

I mean yes, it is rewiring america. But also accounts are just email password. I don't see any credit card requests anywhere with regards to this tool