JACKSON – Consumers Energy launched this week an energy efficiency program designed to help residential customers save energy and save money.
Consumers Energy Saving Solutions offers a wide range of incentives to
help customers reduce their utility bills by using energy more efficiently.
Those incentives include discounts on compact fluorescent light bulbs at
participating retailers and rebates for buying high-efficiency appliances,
such as air conditioners, furnaces, and water heaters.
Customers also may collect a $30 “bounty” if they’ve got a second
refrigerator or freezer ready to be recycled. On top of the $30 check, a
Consumers Energy contractor will pick up the appliances for free. Details
about the energy efficiency program are available on the company’s website at ConsumersEnergy.Com
The residential program joins a business energy efficiency program that
the utility launched on July 6. Michigan’s 2008 comprehensive energy law
sets aggressive energy efficiency goals for the state and the Consumers
Energy programs are designed to help reach those goals.
“Our energy efficiency programs will help our customers save money by
lowering their energy bills. We’re excited to launch this major energy
efficiency effort and we’re looking forward to working with customers, our
business trade allies, and the Michigan Public Service Commission, to make
it a success,” said Terry Mierzwa, Consumers Energy’s manager of marketing,
energy efficiency and research.
Mierzwa added the aggressive energy efficiency effort will create new
jobs, especially for the local businesses that will install the
high-efficiency equipment and perform energy upgrades in homes and
businesses.
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