Applications are now open for Efficiency Navigator, a city-sponsored initiative that provides energy efficiency, health and safety and other upgrades to small- and medium-sized apartment buildings to save energy.
“Building upgrades provided by the Efficiency Navigator make it easier to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer while also lowering energy bills,” Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said in a statement. “I’m grateful to our project partners and, especially, to program participants for showing that providing healthy, affordable housing and taking climate action can go hand in hand.”
Participation in Efficiency Navigator is open to unsubsidized multifamily housing with rents set at pricing for households at or below 80% of the area median income. Selected buildings receive free technical assistance and building upgrades that help save energy and improve indoor air quality. This can be new insulation, better heating or even a new water softener.
In 2025, Efficiency Navigator in Madison and Fitchburg improved affordable housing for approximately 200 residents. Efficiency Navigator worked across 128 units in 20 buildings.
Applications are open online.
