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Released: December 23, 2011
Consumers have more options to reduce energy bills
Source: Wendy Koch, USA Today
As winter begins and federal tax credits for home efficiency upgrades end, consumers need not despair: Options to reduce energy bills are expanding.
States and utilities are spending more on energy-efficiency programs such as home energy audits. At the same time, an array of energy-saving products arrived this year, such as LED light bulbs that replace incandescents and the Nest thermostat that automatically adjusts heating or cooling when no one’s home.
Gas and electric utilities will spend more than $6 billion in rate-payer funds this year to help customers slash energy use — an amount that’s been growing by about $900 million a year since 2006, according to Steven Nadel of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
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