Salt Lake County helping families with home-energy loans

Solar panels? Maybe later. How about a working furnace? Salt Lake County’s home-energy loan program may pay for environmental eye-catchers such as wind turbines and solar arrays, but most applicants are using the money for something simpler — a furnace, a water heater, windows. Less than two months after the county announced it would offer $800,000 in low-interest loans to people wanting to make their homes more energy efficient, officials have logged dozens of applications. The current count: 6...