Last Thursday the speculation was that by this Friday, August 6th HOME STAR would be on the way to becoming law. My anticipation was intense; I was even planning a sushi dinner celebration for friends. The timing was ideal- Cozy Home Performance could use the late summer to adjust our Residential Services business model to better leverage HOME STAR incentives.
Now it looks like late September, at the earliest, for the bi-partisan bill to go through with an effective roll-out early winter, the busy season in the Home Performance industry and not a good time to ride the start-up waves of a new federal incentive program for energy retrofits.
Fortunately in Massachusetts we have lots to do to maximize existing Mass Save program opportunities and continue to build our Commercial/Institutional services- a very promising market.
When HOME STAR is ready, Cozy Home Performance will be ready to maximize incentives for Western MA clients. In the meantime I remember the adage that a business model focused on a specific incentive offering is less strong than the one with diverse target markets and broad program involvement.
