Next Step Living - Cleantech Kingpins

Next Step Living Overview July 2010

About Next Step Living
People
We’re working with corporations, associations, cities and towns to create customizable green program to benefit the partners’ needs. The success of these programs allow us to grow and create exciting green career paths.
Planet
In tackling energy consumption, Next Step Living is addressing a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions that has historically been served ineffectively.
Profit
Next Step Living incorporated as a for profit company in order to scale quickly and maximize our impact
Next Step Living is a New England energy efficiency company dedicated to partnering with organizations to drive greater energy efficiencies. Next Step Living is a “Triple Bottom-Line” Company:

Your energy bills by up to 50%
Your carbon footprint
Drafts throughout your home
The comfort and warmth of your home
Your home’s health and safety
U.S. energy independence
Reduce Increase Benefits NSL offers energy efficiency and renewable services, subsidized heavily by utilities 96% of customers would recommend NSL
5-10% Energy Savings
No cost energy assessment visit ($300 value)
NSL certified professional
Immediate energy savings
Identification of deeper savings opportunities
30-40% Energy Savings
No-cost air sealing
75% weatherization subsidy (e.g. insulation)
Improved home efficiency and comfort
Safety test to identify dangerous carbon monoxide levels
50% + Energy Savings
Could include: efficient heating, windows, solar power, green remodeling
Customized plan for your next best improvement
Your personal smart home advisor

We prioritize actions for each home based on affordability and return: (Representative sample house shown) Savings off energy bill (assumes no interaction between improvements) No-brainers = 5-8% Great investments = 10-20% Long-term thinking = 10-30% Total = 40-60% With interaction, total savings =30-50% Great investments Long-term thinking No-Brainers Adjusted internal rate of return (after subsidies) across life of measure

Communities, organizations, and individuals have many reasons they take action
Unprecedented opportunity for savings
Access to free home assessments, free home sealing, and 75% off insulation
~$1,000 annual energy expense savings (est. 30% reduction of $3,000 in avg. annual costs)
Less than one year payback; plan for improvements all the way to solar
Improve the family’s health and comfort
Air sealing reduces exposure to pollen and allergens – main cause of allergies
Identify asthma health risks from moisture and mold
Get rid of drafts and cold areas that make their families susceptible to illness
Lowers the community’s carbon footprint
The average American home emits 10 tons of carbon per year
The program can reduce the homes energy consumption by up to 50%
0% Interest 7-Year loans for improvements to homes
Our employer and community programs are examples of group action that leads to individual savings and social collective action

NSL has relationships with many of the largest institutions and cities in MA and NH Institutional Partners City & Regional Partners Brookline Boston MA state grant for work in Greenfield & Franklin County New Bedford Worcester

How Next Step Living works with cities: Renew Boston example Conduct Coordinated Outreach Segment by Household Income Provide Service Renew Boston Church Groups Schools Environmental and Community Groups Next Step Living and Other Local Contractors Low-income Weatherization Assistance Program Local Corporations >120% of Median Income 60%<>120% of Median Income < 60% of Median Income

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Next Step Living - Cleantech Kingpins

by Chris Williams on Jul 31, 2010

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