The Current - Helio Blog

Insights, tips, and news about electrifying from the Helio Team.

Insight

What is an “Electrification Roadmap” anyway?

March 30, 2023

The electrification roadmap was developed by our Helio Home experts to provide homeowners with the easiest way to fully electrify your home. With Helio’s roadmap, you don’t have to be a building scientist or worry about navigating contractors and tax credits; just use our simple tool to answer a few questions and let Helio take care of the rest.

Helio News

Electrifying your home can be a huge hassle. Helio Home wants to help.

March 8, 2023

The startup is one of many companies springing up across the U.S. to shepherd consumers through the complicated and multifaceted process of home electrification.

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Heat Pumps

Heat Pumps and Subzero Temperatures: Do you need backup?

February 8, 2023

December's record-breaking cold snap put our heat pumps to the test. They passed the test with flying colors. No Backup, No Problem

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Helio News

Helio to bring electrification to 100 low income homes

Eric Reinhardt
January 26, 2023

Energy Outreach Colorado (EOC) and Helio Home have agreed to a three-year partnership as part of the Healthy Homes Program to improve indoor air quality and electrify 100 low-income single-family homes in the Denver area.

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Helio News

Denver may miss major opportunity for advancing housing, climate goals

Eric Reinhardt
December 21, 2022

Early in the new year, the Denver City Council will have an opportunity our city can’t afford to miss. On Jan. 3, they’ll approve a new building code, which sets the rules for constructing buildings and homes citywide. The proposal moves us in the right direction toward our climate goals, but leaves one crucial element undone—it allows for new homes to connect to fossil fuels.

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Electrification News

Outdated efficiency standards could hamper home decarbonization

Eric Reinhardt
December 1, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the single biggest investment in climate change in the short history of our planet. The incentives built into the IRA have the potential to electrify over one million homes and in turn, make a meaningful and lasting impact on climate change. However, there is one little number that threatens it all. One little number that will make it more expensive for homeowners to electrify, incentivize partial-fossil fuel.

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Insight

Simplifying Home Electrification from MCJ Podcast

Eric Reinhardt
October 7, 2022

Eric Reinhardt, CEO and co-founder talks about how Helio makes it simple for customers to transition off fossil fuels and fully electrify their homes.

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Insight

Opinion: Switching from natural gas to electricity will reduce Colorado’s smog

Eric Reinhardt
May 23, 2022

Last month’s news that federal regulators have proposed downgrading the ozone status for Denver and the northern Front Range from “serious” to “severe” should come as a wakeup call. Our city has a major smog problem. As our city, county, and state leaders develop plans and budgets to deliver the air quality relief our communities need, a major source of air pollution that has previously been overlooked can no longer be ignored — our homes...

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