Consumers Energy Launches Program To Help Residential Customers Save Energy and Save Money
JACKSON, Mich., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Consumers Energy is launching today 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, www.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.
Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy, provides natural gas and electricity to more than six million of the state's nearly 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
