Cuyama Valley Home Energy Survey

Home energy upgrades are often a challenge for Cuyama Valley households. Older homes often require structural upgrades before work can begin, asbestos mitigation can increase costs, and many contractors are reluctant to work in our remote location.

Blue Sky Center is working with the County of Santa Barbara Sustainability Division to identify what types of home upgrades Cuyama Valley residents hope to make to their homes and the barriers to making those upgrades.

We’re interested in learning about what would make your home safer, more comfortable, or more energy efficient. This information will support accessing funding to support Cuyamans to make home upgrades in the future. 

We will collect surveys until the end of 2023. Results will be available at the Cuyama Post Office and on the Blue Sky website beginning February 2024. No names or personally identifiable information will be shared with the survey results; the information will be compiled anonymously.

By completing this survey, you are not committing to any program or service, and the information you provide is not submitted to any program as an application. 
 
Questions or concerns may be directed to:
- Jack Forinash, Blue Sky Center Executive Director, 661-413-3005, jack@blueskycenter.org 
- April Price, County of Santa Barbara Sustainability Division’s Energy Portfolio Manager, 805-568-3508, aprice@countyofsb.org 
 
 
Funding for this survey and the home energy audits has been provided via the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Energizing Rural Communities Prize” with the purpose of “supporting innovative partnership and finance plans to help rural or remote communities develop clean energy demonstration projects.” More at www.herox.com/rural-energy