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Find upgrades for your home sweet home with rebates and incentives from POWER MOVES. Within nearly any home lie opportunities for cutting energy costs, and we can help you find them with a home energy assessment. Or get ideas from neighbors who have already saved.

Turn what you learn into dollars by upgrading to more energy-efficient equipment. We’ll give you rebates, and you save on your bill each month, too. Click around to find the details on incentives for lighting, water heaters, HVAC, and more.

We’ll even give you money for your old fridge. How’s that for a sweet deal?

  • Energy Saving Tip #362

    Your dishwasher may be as smart as your kids.

    A soil-sensing dishwasher evaluates the level of grunge on your dishes to calculate the wash level that’s necessary, saving energy and water when, say, you haven’t let the lasagna dry on your plates before loading.

  • Energy Saving Tip #171

    You can’t toss CFLs in the trash, but then again you rarely need to get rid of them.

    Because they contain a small amount of mercury, compact florescent lights (CFLs) shouldn’t just be thrown into the garbage like incandescent bulbs. (But in their defense, CFLs beat incandescents for not tossing your money in the trash with unnecessary energy costs.) Find out how to dispose of CFLs.

  • Energy Saving Tip #349

    Maybe you got better with age, but your fridge sure didn’t.

    If you bought your refrigerator before 1993, it’s probably using twice the energy of a new model. The energy savings of a new fridge would buy a whole lot of wine and cheese to fill it with, if you’re into that.

  • Energy Saving Tip #351

    Maintain your furnace, and you won’t have to reach for a sweater before you get out of bed.

    Heating is the biggest energy cost in any household. Cutting that cost doesn’t have to mean replacing your furnace or wearing layers. Servicing your HVAC system, changing the filters, fixing leaks in ducts, and turning your thermostat down when you’re asleep add up to noticeable savings.

  • Energy Saving Tip #405

    Cut your energy bill and your taxes. We’d call that a win-win.

    You can get tax credits through 2016 for geothermal heat pumps, solar panels, solar water heaters, small wind energy systems, and fuel cells for your home. Bad news if you love paying taxes, we know. Click here to find out more.

  • Energy Saving Tip #213

    To sleep, perchance to dream of (very real) savings . . .

    On average, setting back your thermostat a degree shows up on your electric bill as a two percent savings. Unless you have a heat pump, you can turn back your thermostat at night to save about $180 per year, and mostly sleep through it.

  • Energy Saving Tip #475

    Your water heater tank shouldn’t be so hot you can fry an egg on it.

    If your tank feels warm to the touch, consider installing an insulating blanket. Doing so can reduce standby heat losses by 25 to 45 percent, which translates to savings of about four to nine percent in water heating cost.

  • Energy Saving Tip #177

    Possibly the only instance when running longer is better.

    The surge of energy that a CFL pulls when you switch it on lasts about a tenth of a second and consumes roughly the energy of five seconds of normal operation, but running the bulb for less than 15 minutes does shorten its life slightly. *Source: EnergyStar.com

  • Energy Saving Tip #303

    Don’t sweat condensation on your high-performing windows.

    Keeping the warmth inside means the lower-humidity, cooler temperature outside brings condensation to the outer pane. *Source: EnergyStar.com