That’s right: chances are that your power company will pay you to pay them less. Why? As Thomas Friedman and others have noted, it costs your utility a bundle to build extra power plants to handle growing electricity demand. So, they’d much rather pay you use their existing electric capacity more efficiently.

Obviously, that’s good for you: you pay less on your energy bill because you are using less electricity - and you get paid a bonus rebate as a reward for saving money. Very cool - which is a very helpful transition to the topic of global warming: producing less wasted electricity and building fewer unnecessary new power plants reduces greenhouse gas emissions - a LOT. So, you, me, your local utility, and the polar bears are all winners here.

We want to be sure to do our part to help highlight wherever you can get started right away, right from your keyboard. Many utilities around the country will pay you to purchase and install a programmable thermostat or compact fluorescent light bulbs. Want to see if and how yours might help you? Check our maps!

That’s right: for your convenience and for our country, we’ve started to map all utility energy efficiency rebate programs. And you can help - please do use this form to let us know of a program near you, and we’ll add it to our maps!