America’s electric companies offer a number of programs and services designed to help their customers save electricity and money.

Programs include cash rebates, direct load-control programs, low-interest loans to buy energy-efficient appliances, and in-home and online energy audits to help consumers learn where they can reduce their energy use. Learn more about programs that can help you.

Energy-efficiency programs are making a difference. The U.S. Department of Energy says that electric company demand-side management programs helped to save almost 860 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity between 1989 and 2006.¹

That’s enough electricity to power almost 76 million homes for one year! And, this savings is equal to the annual electricity output of almost 110 baseload power plants (rated at 800 megawatts each and operating at a 90-percent capacity factor).

¹U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Annual 2006, October 2007.