nATIONAL ENERGY LEADERSHIP CORPS (NELC)

Description
The National Energy Leadership Corps (NELC) mobilizes a cadre of trained energy student leaders to provide free home energy assessments facilitating the education of homeowners about energy loss and energy retrofits of homes. The NELC service learning program trains, provides technical and software support, and manages NECA Student Chapter members to offer the following community services:
- Provide customized energy profiles of homes and enable individual citizens to make wise investments of time and resources to improve energy efficiency.
- Increase energy efficiency of existing U.S. homes and help save approximately 30 Million BTUs of energy per home per year.
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Students from the University of Pittsburgh led by professor Melissa Bilec completed a pilot program implementing the NELC curriculum this week. The project culminated in a presentation of custom home energy assessment report developed by teams of students in Dr. Bilec's class for members of the Larimar community in Pittsburgh. Lessons from this pilot are now being used to improve the curriculum and tools to support student home energy assessments in local communities.
In the News
10/3/2011
$500,000 grant supports National Energy Leadership Corps at Penn State