At the Walnut House Cooperative, a nearly 100-year-old apartment building in Berkeley, the windows leak cold air on winter evenings. The attic insulation is failing. The hot water heater is more than 40 years old.

In the coming months, things will change. A pilot program from the city of Berkeley and a nonprofit called the Association for Energy Affordability is pulling together up to $150,000 in rebates and incentives that will fund the installation of better insulation, new windows and a more efficient electric water heater. By early 2025, the residents — mostly low-income seniors — will get to share in California’s increasingly electric, climate-conscious future.

“This is where our culture is moving,” said Miriam Bird Greenberg, a poet and writing teacher who lives at the complex and is heartened to see it ride the wave of change coming to the region.

Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle.