How to Electrify Your Home

Electrification can be implemented in gradual steps or all at once, and can be successful on any budget, often for an overall cost savings. The best time to electrify is when you are going to replace a major appliance or remodel a kitchen or a whole home.

Choose 100% renewable electricity: Switch to 100% renewable electricity with MCE’s Deep Green to ensure your power has the lowest amount of emissions possible.

Switch to electrical appliances: Use less natural gas by switching to electric appliances. Relatively inexpensive everyday electric appliances that can be among the easiest to swap include electric kettles, space heaters, and induction stoves or portable induction plug-in cooktops ("hobs").

Go electric when replacing your home furnace and water heater: Before your major equipment breaks down, make a plan to replace them with efficient all-electric options. Have a licensed contractor check your electrical panel to make sure it can support any new electrical appliances, or even a future electric car, and upgrade if needed. Talk to a few experienced appliance installers and manufacturers, so you’re ready for replacement when the time comes. 

• Marin Clean Energy: It's easy to opt-up to 100% renewable energy through Marin Clean Energy's Deep Green program

• PG&E Community Renewable Programs: Purchase up to 100% of your electricity from a community renewable program generating renewable power within California, without needing to install private rooftop solar panels.

• SunShares: Solar and battery storage is discounted by signing up through the SunShares program, seasonally available each Fall.

• Incentives for Battery Backup Systems: Cut through the red tape of battery storage installs with this new incentive program for Sausalito.

• Marin County Drawdown: Renewable Energy: Learn more about what you can do (and what the County is doing) to transition to renewable energy and away from fossil fuels.

• Electrify Marin: The County of Marin is offering rebates to single family property owners for the replacement of natural gas appliances with efficient all-electric units, including water heaters, furnaces, ranges and cooktops.

• Sustainability Programs for Residents: Whether you have already started making home sustainability improvements or are just getting started, these programs can help you on your journey to a more efficient and comfortable home.

• Federal Solar Tax Credits: Also known as the investment tax credit (ITC), this federal program allows you to deduct a percentage of the cost of installing a solar energy system from your federal taxes. The value of the ITC does not have a cap. It applies to both residential and commercial systems, and is 26% through the end of 2022, stepping down to 22% in 2023. 

• PACE: (Property Assessed Clean Energy) program can finance energy-saving, renewable- energy and water-saving home upgrades for homeowners with no down payment, no minimum credit score, long repayment terms, and easy payments through your property tax bill.

• BAYREN Home+ Energy Advisor: BayREN Home+ rebates and the Home Energy Advisor program will be shutting down on October 31, 2024 or when current funds are exhausted. You can check current funding levels at this website.

• BayREN Energy Atlas: The Bay Area Energy Atlas is a database of building energy consumption that links PG&E metered energy consumption to building characteristics, sociodemographic data, and other significant attributes. This website is a public data resource that displays spatially aggregated annual energy consumption statistics for the nine Bay Area counties.