How to Use weatherize in a Sentence

weatherize

verb
  • We'll weatherize the cabin with insulation.
  • The bill would also allow states to use their grants to weatherize about one million low- and moderate-income units each year.
    — Mark Wolfe For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The organization has led groups to plant trees, build rain gardens and weatherize buildings.
    — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Many states, such as Maine, also run programs to weatherize homes and improve home efficiency.
    — Alexandra Klass, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • In recent months, gas producers have acknowledged the need to weatherize their operations against the cold.
    — James Osborne, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2021
  • They also should be required to weatherize wells and equipment, just as power generators are expected to step up.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • To keep your heating bill down without sacrificing comfort, look for alternative ways to warm and weatherize your home in the winter.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Winter said there are programs that help weatherize homes and replace windows and even remove lead if your home was built before 1978.
    — Christine Sloan, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Install tight-fitting, insulating drapes or shades on windows that feel drafty after weatherizing.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Such a mechanism would strengthen incentives to weatherize and maintain resilient plants that can supply power on short notice.
    — Baker Institute, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Further, the state did not go far enough in requiring natural gas producers to weatherize their infrastructure.
    — Robert Bryce, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Homeowners familiar with chilly interiors have some options to weatherize their home.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Our power plants and substations are weatherized and equipment is insulated and inspected.
    — Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The bill provides about $50 billion to protect against droughts and floods and weatherize utilities and other infrastructure.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Under the existing system, there is limited incentive for natural gas plants to weatherize.
    — James Osborne, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2021
  • Biden touted a separate administration plan to provide more than $3 billion to states to help homeowners weatherize their homes.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • King said incentivizing power plants to better weatherize should also be prioritized.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2021
  • However, critics of the model argue that the price incentives aren’t big enough for generators to weatherize their facilities in advance of the storm.
    — Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Some consumers have benefited from incentives that pay for subsidized housing or help people buy zero-emission vehicles and weatherize their homes.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
  • After cold weather led to major power outages a decade ago, the state recommended that electric generators weatherize plants but did not mandate investments.
    — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Granholm says that while Texas has to take steps to weatherize its grid, the Department of Energy is ready to integrate the state's system into the rest of the country's.
    — Cara Korte, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Some senators seemed frustrated the state doesn’t require power plants, wind turbines and other generators to weatherize - that is, make sure their equipment can withstand extreme heat, cold and wind.
    — James Barragán, Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The Energy Department is helping low-income households access programs to weatherize their homes and save energy.
    — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • On energy, Texas should continue leading in wind and solar while modernizing and weatherizing the grid through battery storage and stronger transmission.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Your own lobbyists have circulated a plan that would have taxpayers subsidize any efforts to weatherize your proprietary facilities.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • After the storm, Abbott failed to push the Legislature to pass laws that would ensure that gas companies and power generators properly weatherize.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Others have criticized natural gas operators in the grid failures, but most of the attention has focused on power plants that didn’t weatherize and grid regulators who didn’t move aggressively.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Finally, Biden's budget includes environmental justice funding and grants to help electrify and weatherize homes, lowering their emissions in the process.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But whereas power plants in the Northeast and the Midwest weatherize for the cold out of necessity, there’s no commercial incentive for Texas facilities to do so.
    — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The Texas House and Senate have now moved forward on measures requiring power generators to weatherize their equipment for extreme conditions like last month’s deadly freeze.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021

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