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As the leaves begin to change and Wisconsinites start getting ready for the cold, a lot of homeowners have a top priority on their mind: how to heat their home as energy efficiently as possible. It's a good instinct to have this year in particular, since Milwaukee area natural gas rates jumped 58% between March 2025 and March 2026, and a typical home using 150 therms a month is now paying roughly $75 more on its bill than it was the year before. With rates on the rise, a heat

When people hear the phrase energy efficient home improvements, most of them picture one thing, usually a new furnace or a set of solar panels on the roof. In reality, the term covers a much wider range of upgrades, and some of the improvements that make the biggest difference in a Wisconsin home have nothing to do with equipment at all. At Green Homeowners United, we talk to Milwaukee homeowners about this almost every day, and the question we hear most isn't whether efficie