Appliance Replacement Program
Information
For more information, call Housing Services at (207) 546-7544.
This program was established to reduce residential electricity costs in low-income households by replacing inefficient and unsafe appliances. Appliances that may be installed under this program include: replacement refrigerators; compact fluorescent light bulbs and hard-wired fluorescent lighting fixtures to replace existing incandescent and halogen lighting; and conventional inner-spring mattresses to replace electrically-heated waterbeds. Our staff will educate the homeowner on energy savings and perform an energy audit on the homeowner's refrigerator. If the refrigerator fails the test, an energy efficient refrigerator will replace it.
Requirements: The homeowner must have a current and approved fuel application, the home has to have been previously weatherized by WHCA or is currently being weatherized, and the refrigerator has to be older than 1995.