Get a Free Home Energy Assessment
Belmont Light offers no-cost, comprehensive energy assessments to all residential customers. These assessments will analyze your home's energy use, offer tips on appliance usage, and provide a report detailing recommendations and estimated savings for any suggested improvements.
Learn more at Belmont Light
Belmont Light also offers a variety of rebates for energy efficient appliances.
Solarize Your Home
Install solar panels to generate your own renewable energy. 325 Belmont homes have gone solar. Belmont Goes Solar experts are available to help you make the right decision.
Learn more at Belmont Goes Solar
Drive an Electric Vehicle
Switch to an Electric Vehicle (EV) to immediately reduce your carbon emissions. EVs using carbon-free electricity have NO carbon pollution. In addition to being better for the environment, studies have found that electric vehicles can save owners money over the lifetime of the car.
MIT's Trancik Lab has developed an interactive tool which allows users to compare the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and average monthly cost of more than 125 different models of cars. Check it out if you are thinking of making a purchase!
For more information on electric cars in our town, check out Belmont Drives Electric. You can also read about one Belmont electric car owner's perspective here, or watch the Belmont Journal video with electric car user Marty Bitner talking about his experience here.
Use a Heat Pump for Home Heating
Electrically-driven heat pumps provide high efficiency home heating and cooling. When powered by carbon-free electricity they allow for heating and cooling that is emissions-free. Belmont Light offers grants to support the installation of air-source heat pumps. HeatSmart Belmont was a community-based education and outreach campaign aimed at increasing adoption of air source heat pumps. It launched in April 2019 and ran through October 2019. Though the program has ended, Belmont Light continues to offer rebates for the installation of electric heat pump systems, and recently launched its new "CleanComfort" program, intended to provide Belmont residential and commercial customers with expert and impartial support before, during, and after the process of installing heat pumps at their homes and businesses.
Learn more about Belmont Light's Rebate Program and the new CleanComfort Program
Read the latest article on HeatSmart Belmont here
See a recent video of a series of Belmont “open houses” for residents to learn what’s involved in HeatSmart here.
Small Business Owner in Belmont?
Belmont Light offers a variety of programs for commercial customers.
Commercial Light Retrofit Rebate Program
Emission-Free Renewable Distributed Generation (Wind or Solar)
Support Clean Electricity
Be proactive about clean electricity. Express your support to Belmont Light for its use of electricity from carbon-free sources. 100% carbon-free electricity in Belmont by 2022 is feasible. As a Belmont Resident, you can also opt-in to Belmont Light's Green Choice Program, and help make this goal a reality
Learn about Belmont Light's goal
Read the latest article on Belmont Light's Role in energy efficiency here
Learn about the harmful effects of gas cooking here
More Environmental Organizations in Belmont
Sustainable Belmont
Sustainable Belmont
Sustainable Belmont
Helping Belmont to be an environmentally responsible community.
Initiatives range from seemingly-small behavioral changes like the anti-idling campaign (improved air quality and reduced gas consumption) to supporting ESCo projects (improving energy efficiency in town buildings – the most recent one yielding greater cost avoidances than o
Helping Belmont to be an environmentally responsible community.
Initiatives range from seemingly-small behavioral changes like the anti-idling campaign (improved air quality and reduced gas consumption) to supporting ESCo projects (improving energy efficiency in town buildings – the most recent one yielding greater cost avoidances than originally estimated in part due to increased fuel costs).
We continue to work towards financial savings and improved environmental conditions to the benefit of the entire community, while recognizing our work has impacts beyond Belmont.
Belmont Composts!
Sustainable Belmont
Sustainable Belmont
The mission of Belmont Composts! is to reduce Belmont’s trash and increase curbside composting by developing a low-cost curbside composting option for Belmont residents, schools, and businesses.
Members of Belmont Composts! include concerned residents, as well as members of the Green Alliance, the Belmont Energy Committee and town officia
The mission of Belmont Composts! is to reduce Belmont’s trash and increase curbside composting by developing a low-cost curbside composting option for Belmont residents, schools, and businesses.
Members of Belmont Composts! include concerned residents, as well as members of the Green Alliance, the Belmont Energy Committee and town officials.
Increasing curbside composting in Belmont would not only be good for the environment; it would also save the town money on tipping fees. Find out more about how the program works and how to register.
Read the latest article on Composting in Belmont
In mid-July, the Town of Belmont released an RFP for a preferred vendor program. Under this program, the town would promote the selected vendor; in return, residents would receive a reduced rate for subscriptions, which would still be paid for privately.
More to come
Sustainable Belmont
More to come
More to come