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To Reduce Soaring Summer Electricity Bills, Pollution, Electricity Reliability Problems, Increase Energy Security

Become Energy $avvy to Benefit Pocketbook, Planet, Energy Security

Washington, DC, March 2006 – If you replace four 75-watt incandescent bulbs that burn four or more hours a day in your home with four 23-watt fluorescent bulbs, you will get as much light but also will save more than 2,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity and $190 over the life of the bulbs. If all of our nation’s households did the same, we’d save as much energy as is consumed by some 38 million cars in one year!

Washington D.C – Computers, printers, air conditioners, TVs, VCRs, DVD and CD players, fax machines, blow dryers, microwaves Topics: Appliances, Lighting, Saving Money and Energy

Washington, DC, July 2005 – As hot weather blankets much of the country and humidity adds to the discomfort level during the “dog days of summer,” increased demand for such comforts as air conditioning causes electricity bills to soar. The Alliance to Save Energy offers consumers energy-efficiency tips to easily and comfortably reduce home energy bills, pollution, and stress on the power grid:

U.S. consumers will soon be hit simultaneously with high home heating bills and holiday shopping bills. But help is at hand. The Powerful $avings campaign, a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Alliance to Save Energy, offers a variety of smart energy practices and energy-efficiency home improvements to fit every pocketbook, so consumers can reduce their home energy bills and the nation’s overall energy use this winter.

Fifty million people across the US and Canada suffered through the “Great Blackout” of 2003. While the cause of the August 14 cascading power failure was not a peak overload issue on that hot summer day, ways to avoid a repeat are still being discussed.

The Alliance to Save Energy urges that energy efficiency must be a prime consideration to solutions to the electricity reliability problem. Check out these Alliance resources: