Switching to heat pumps and other 100% electric technology
is the best way to slash our climate footprint.
Together, we can do this. We’re your neighbors, and we’re here to show you how.
Welcome to Electrify Ashland Now!
We are a team of local volunteers who are here to help you on your journey to electrify your home.
What does it mean to “go electric”?
Electrification means replacing appliances that use fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) with ones that use electricity.
Many of our home appliances use “natural” gas. “Natural” gas is up to 90% methane — a potent greenhouse gas with damaging health effects and a global warming impact 86 times that of carbon dioxide over 20 years.
Join the “100% electric” movement — also called electrification — and move away from burning methane at home.
Go electric to… Cut costs, breathe cleaner air, lessen use of fossil fuel, help our climate, and build community.
A volunteer action team of the Ashland Climate Collaborative, Electrify Ashland Now! promotes clean energy upgrades in Ashland homes. We are proud to be affiliated with Portland-based Electrify Now.
Ashland Energy Policy Series
The Ashland Climate Collaborative and its Electrify Ashland Now Team Takes a Deep Dive into Local Energy Policy in a New Series of Articles
The City of Ashland is making headway on several important issues simultaneously – reducing the cost and improving the quality of life for Ashlanders who are just getting by while also moving our community along the path to resilience and net zero. Is that possible?
It is! We’re launching this Ashland Energy Policy blog series to help inform the conversation over the coming weeks and months.
Article 1. Welcome to Our New Ashland Energy Policy Series: The City is getting ready to up its game in energy conservation. We’ve got ideas!
Article 2. Let’s Take Some Bold Steps: Housing costs are a challenge in Ashland – the right energy policies can help.
Article 3. City Council Moves Forward on Energy Programs: The December 3 Ashland City Council meeting was the scene of a rare “win-win-win” lovefest.
Volunteer Spotlight
Longtime Ashland resident Ben Scott, is one of the region’s foremost experts on residential energy efficiency — and a leading member of the Electrify Ashland Now! Action Team. Go to YouTube now to hear why Ben supports the Ashland Climate Collaborative and sees electrification as key to climate action.
The IRA can save your business money
— while also saving the environment!
Check out our February 2023 webinar with Joel Rosenberg from Rewiring America
The Inflation Reduction Act
will help you go electric today!
Learn all about the IRA and all the incentives available to you!
City of Ashland incentives save you money
on going green!
Click here to learn about City of Ashland incentives for electric heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, induction cooktops, EVs, and more!
Attention Avista Customers!
In June 2022, Avista sent a bill insert to all its local gas customers urging customers to reduce their footprint by paying extra for renewable “natural” gas (methane).
Our take? Malarkey!
We Are Making Progress!
Check out the EAN! Emissions Dashboard Page
Electrify Ashland Now! is compiling information to measure progress that Ashland residents are making in reducing the use of natural gas. We look forward to keeping you updated as we continue on our journey to a cleaner and more resilient Ashland. Click here to see our latest report.
On November 9, 2022, we hosted an event where local and national experts met with more than 70 community members to discuss the importance of home-electrification — and how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) makes these upgrades more accessible than ever. We discussed the tax rebates and incentives offered, who qualifies for them, and why electrification is crucial to limiting the effects of climate change. Click here to watch it on our YouTube channel.
Climate Change is
Everyone’s Problem
We can all be part of the solution.
In our Spring 2022 mailer to Ashland households, we laid out all the reasons why you should start planning now to make the shift off “natural” gas (methane).
About Us
Electrify Ashland Now is a campaign launched in 2022 with a goal of electrifying Ashland homes to dramatically reduce our community’s climate footprint. Efficient, high-quality electric appliances are affordable and available. Local suppliers and contractors can provide heat pumps for winter warming and summer cooling. Induction cooktops offer safe, flame-free cooking with the responsiveness of gas stoves. We’re here to help you.
For some of us, replacing gas furnaces, water heaters, and stoves is within reach now. On this website you can find local contractors, learn about the financial and climate costs and benefits of electric heat pumps and heat pump water heaters, learn the steps for planning your electrification journey, and learn more about products currently available. You can get personal assistance from your Ashland neighbors and local experts, or attend a zoom support group session. You can also read “How I did it” stories from real homeowners of Ashland about their electrification journey.
Others can join the Electrify Ashland Now campaign by urging landlords, businesses, and our City government to support the full electrification of Ashland. We can do this.