For this guide, we spoke with several people who work directly on weatherizing: Jonnell Carol Minefee, co-founder and managing partner of Solar Tyme USA, a Georgia-based company that focuses on energy-efficiency solutions in low-income and minority communities; Josh Butzbaugh and Cheryn Metzger, senior researcher and residential program manager, respectively, at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, a division of the Department of Energy), who specialize in home energy efficiency; Matt Bramson, executive vice president of marketing and sales, and Haydin Hartle, director of strategic sales at Elevation, an Arizona-based company that provides both solar installations and energy-reduction services; and on background, the director of single-family residential programs at the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority. For my part, I oversaw multiple energy-efficiency and weatherizing projects during a decade as president of my co-op in New York City, including the re-caulking of our buildings’ 1,000-plus windows and the replacement of their roofs with better-insulated materials. What I learned from the engineers, architects, and contractors that worked with the co-op informs this guide, as well.
