Use your training to help others take smart, sustainable steps towards savings and resilience.
Are you passionate about energy, efficiency, renewables, the environment, or all of the above? Consider volunteering with the City’s partner, Electrify Indiana, as an Energy Navigator! for our new Bloomington Energy Works program. All adults and high school students are welcome to participate!
Or, if you are a homeowner who has electrified your home with solar panels, heat pumps, an induction stove, etc: consider offering your home as a setting for an open house show-and-tell. Contact Electrify Indiana to learn more!
Program Goals
The Energy Navigator! program is led by Electrify Indiana, a Bloomington-based nonprofit organization working to “equip Hoosier households across the state to make cost-saving, healthy choices when their gas-fueled appliances break down.” Energy Navigator! teams are trusted community voices helping Bloomington’s residents, businesses, and property owners understand practical ways to save energy and reduce costs. Through training and outreach, they make energy efficiency more approachable and help drive citywide progress.
The purpose of the Energy Navigator! program is to increase education and awareness, not to advise on specific project financing or installations.
Volunteer Duties
Educate Bloomington residents about the benefits of clean energy, energy efficiency, electrification, etc. Three types of Energy Navigators! are needed:
Door-to-door residential engagement in Bloomington
Give presentations to the public
Provide your electrified home for an open house show-and-tell presentation
Educate residents on the City’s Municipal Investment Fund public-private partnership plan
Attend training sessions for the chosen volunteer path
Training will cover:
Fundamentals of residential energy efficiency and renewable energy projects
How to engage with residents door-to-door
How to talk to landlords, tenants, and homeowners to encourage energy efficiency and renewal energy projects and how to join the MIF’s public-private partnership
Learn about local and state incentives available to help residents adopt these ideas
How and where to conduct door-to-door education with appropriate identification, volunteer groups, and educational materials
Other clean energy topics and volunteering tools as needed