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Hon Apartments in Boston are getting a big upgrade as part of a nonprofit's effort to make the city more energy efficient, the Boston Globe reports.
The 10-property, 520-unit affordable-housing complex is cutting its energy use by 55% through "deep energy retrofits," which involve making buildings more energy efficient and less reliant on fossil fuels.
"We want to be a model for the rest of the country," says Caitlin Robillard, the director of real estate for Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation, which is funding the retrofits with $8 million in local and federal funding.
The DERs "eliminate on-site fossil fuel combustion and significantly reduce on-site energy use through all-electric mechanical systems, high performance envelope interventions, and on-site solar when feasible," the CDC says in a press release.
The projects, which are expected to cut energy consumption by an average of 55% across 103 of the complex's units, are expected to save residents more than $1 million a year, the Globe notes.
The complex is one of the first in the country to take advantage of a new state law that offers tax credits for DERs, as well as federal and state incentives for whole-building retrofit
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