High-Efficiency Water Heating Helps Lower Costs at Amberwood Senior Apartments
Amberwood Senior Apartments in Daly City, California, is a 130-unit complex built in 1970. In 2017, with help from the Bay Area Multifamily Building Enhancements (BAMBE) program, Amberwood launched an initiative to reduce overall energy costs by 15% or more. BAMBE provided a rebate of $750 per unit — a total of $97,500 — to help pay for the improvements.
The BAMBE program is a service offered by the Bay Area Regional Energy Network, a collaboration of public agencies representing all nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. BAMBE’s consultants identified numerous areas where energy efficiency could be improved: