2015 Vectren Share the Warmth wrap up

This year's Share the Warmth program funded by Vectren and it's customer's donations wrapped up earlier this month.  119 households participated, up from 94 participants last year.  $257,874 was spent to help weatherize homes participating in Indiana's low income weatherization program.  A few program highlights:

• 74 received a new furnace to replace an existing, but unsafe furnace.
• 16 cook stoves were replaced or repaired to eliminate unsafe levels of carbon monoxide being made.
• 20 unsafe gas fired water heaters were replaced.
• 170,522 cfm@50 Pascals worth of air sealing reductions was achieved.  Which is roughly the equivalent of there being three doors left open year round, letting hot air leave in the winter.  Those three doors are now shut and keeping warm air inside the homes.
• Over 1.5 acres of attic insulation was installed (66,945 square feet).
• Enough walls were insulated to cover nearly 15 IMAX screens (55,589 square feet).
• 1,413 feet of pipe insulation was installed, taller than five Indiana State Soldiers and Sailors Monuments stacked one on top of another.
• 20,174 square feet of mobile home belly insulation was installed, enough to insulate more than four basketball court floors.

The map below shows where the funds were spent throughout the state (anonymized by county).  Nearly 40% of the funds were put to use in Madison, Knox, Vigo, and Vanderburgh counties.  

  

The next map breaks down a few bits of information for each county where Share the Warmth funds were utilized.

Please click on a spot to see how much was spent & claimed for STW

And for the implementation bits:

I would like to thank Ohio Valley Opportunities, Community Action of Western Indiana, PACE, Community & Family Services, Central Indiana CAP, Western Indiana Community Action, South Central CAP, Hoosier Uplands, TRI-CAP, and Lincoln Hills for accepting and putting to use additional Share the Warmth funds.  I appreciate your flexibility!

Vectren Share the Warmth 2015 - June update

Here is an update for Share the Warmth's spending levels as of the beginning of June.  Just under half of the participating Weatherization providers have successfully claimed at least half of their allocations.

With two months to go, over $144,000 has been claimed with a little over $113,000 remaining before the final benchmark arrives at the end of June.  Big thanks to Area IV for getting their total allocation claimed in well ahead of schedule.  For everyone else, keep those claims coming in!  I will be reaching out to many of you to provide a list of clients that have administrative costs yet to be reimbursed.  

Thanks again for your hard work!

2015 Vectren Share the Warmth mapping

Trying out a new visualization method. Rather than relying on charts to show progress for the Share the Warmth program this year, here are some maps:

STW funds claimed by county:

The claims and funding levels are aggregated and tracked by county, so no personal information of the clients is identified.  As of today, 52 homes have been successfully claimed for a total of $113,954.37.  Just a little under the half way, from a funding standpoint.  But less than two months to go before the final benchmark (July 1st).

Over 70 percent of the participating providers have claimed less than half of their allocated funds at this point.  I hope to see more claims coming in the next month.  Thanks for all your hard work thus far...

Vectren Share the Warmth Wrap up (2014) (Update)

Many thanks to the Weatherizers who helped with this year's Share the Warmth program.  Over $191,000 was spent on 94 homes weatherized between January and September.  The $191,000 from Share the Warmth was helped by over $422,000 of additional weatherization funds to weatherize those homes.


Some quick program facts:

• 54 unsafe furnaces were replaced with new, more efficient ones.
• Seven gas cook stoves were repaired, another four were replaced to help reduce high carbon monoxide production.
• 20 damaged or unsafe water heaters were replaced.
• Enough air sealing was done to patch a single 133 sqft hole.  Think the size of a two car garage door...
• Nearly 53,000 sqft of attic insulation was installed.  More than enough to cover 11 basketball courts in a warm coating of cellulose.
• Over 25,000 sqft of wall insulation was installed.  That is as big as seven IMAX movie theater screens.
• Enough pipe wrap was installed to stretch from end zone to end zone of a football field.

Finally, a brief breakdown of what was spent where:

I'm hopeful there will be a similar program beginning early in 2015.  Thank you all for your help!  

Updated to reflect corrected number of homes completed in the program.