Home Energy Assessment FAQs

Mass Save® is a collaborative of Massachusetts’ electric and natural gas utilities and energy efficiency service providers that encourages residents and businesses to make energy efficient upgrades by offering a wide range of services, rebates, incentives, trainings, and information.

To make these resources more accessible to the public and to historically underserved populations, Mass Save launched the Community First Partnership (CFP) Program. This initiative engages renters, landlords, income-eligible households, first language other than English households, and small businesses in participating communities to ensure the benefits of energy efficiency are more equitably distributed.

The City of Watertown participates in the CFP program, which enables us to have a full-time Energy Advocate on staff to personally assist residents and small businesses with accessing Mass Save incentive programs. It also allows us to contract a Home Performance Contractor to help increase energy efficiency in your home and potentially save you money. While the City of Watertown feels this program provides meaningful benefits for its residents, it is completely voluntary to participate.

See below FAQs to learn more about the program, Watertown’s contractor, and the possibilities.

Contractor & Program Questions

An HPC offers residential customers turnkey services, from performing Home Energy Assessments to installing program-approved weatherization and...

HomeWorks is a Massachusetts-based residential energy efficiency company that is certified as a Home Performance Contractor to provide Mass Save...

The City chose to work with HomeWorks as an HPC to increase its capacity to reach residents directly and to make it simpler for residents to...

HomeWorks has similar HPC agreements with Arlington, Canton, Malden, Gloucester, Lexington, and many more communities. They also partner with...

Resident participation in the Mass Save program aligns with Watertown’s climate goals by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, which are...

Services Questions

The scope of Watertown’s agreement with HomeWorks is limited to Home Energy Assessments (see below question for more details), weatherization, and...

The Home Energy Assessment provided through the Mass Save program is a no-cost service available to Massachusetts residents, including homeowners,...

A heat pump is a highly efficient heating and cooling system that moves heat rather than generating it. In the winter, it extracts heat from the...

Outreach Questions

Getting an HEA makes sense for a wide range of property owners in Watertown, but for slightly different reasons. For homeowners, taking advantage of...

Homeowners can benefit from the Mass Save program through a wide range of no-cost services, generous rebates, incentives, and low-interest financing...

Yes, renters can benefit from the Mass Save program in several ways. They can receive a no-cost Home Energy Assessment (HEA), during which a Home...

Landlords can benefit from the Mass Save program by accessing generous rebates, incentives, and no-cost upgrades that improve the energy efficiency,...

For more information or to schedule a no-cost Home Energy Assessment, you can contact Watertown’s Energy Advocate, Fangxue Zheng, via email or by...