What Is "Weatherization Plus"?
Weatherization Plus is the approach the Department of Energy Weatherization Program national network has adopted for managing and developing the Weatherization Program through 2010.
Its strategy is to make the ‘core’ WAP program a showcase for state-of-the-art practices and the base for leveraging* and organizing additional resources; its goal is to make energy use efficient and housing more affordable for working and retired Americans and their families. The 2005 - 2010 strategic plan has three priorities:
- Updating the network agencies’ technology and capability,
- Increasing the exchange of information and skills on all practices of the programs, and
- Expanding Weatherization’s leveraged* resources.
The Weatherization Partnership Project serves strategy #3.
Explore the project’s online resources:
*What is "Leveraging"? The word means: using the resources of the program and its organizations, such as people, time, skills, good reputation and funding, to attract more complementary resources.
(The first Weatherization Plus strategy, developed for 2001 through 2005, resulted in an expanded and improved program. See the achievements HERE.)
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