CUB To Talk On Slashing Energy Bills, Efficiency Incentives Of Up To $1,500, And How New Online Service Could Cut Costs By $200/Year
CHICAGO, June 17, 2010—The Citizens Utility Board (CUB) will hand out money-saving Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs
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to Hillside residents and talk about a service, CUBEnergySaver.com, that can show them how to slash utility bills by $200 a year.

CUB will speak at a free energy-efficiency workshop:

6 p.m., Thursday, July 15
Memorial Park District: Eisenhower Community Center
Room B 700
Speechley Blvd.
Hillside


"Consumers may not have a lot of faith in utilities or volatile energy markets to bring their electric and natural gas bills down, but there’s a lot they can do without ever leaving home--and CUB knows the tools to help them do that," CUB Outreach Director Sarah Moskowitz said. "Energy efficiency is a great way to take power over your power bills."

Attendees will learn about:

*CUB Energy Saver (www.CUBEnergySaver.com), a free online service that can help consumers build a money-saving plan perfect for their homes. So far, it has shown Illinois families how to cut their utility bills by an average of about $200 a year. It’s also the only online service of its kind that in effect pays consumers, through a rewards program, for documented reductions in their ComEd bills.

*Efficiency incentives, such as a tax credit of up to $1,500, and how to get paid $25 for having ComEd junk an old refrigerator.

*The state’s new “on-bill financing” law that will allow consumers to buy money-saving appliances with no upfront cost—and pay for it on their utility bills.

Each participant at CUB’s event will receive a free Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb, which can cut electric bills by up to $50 over its lifetime.

The event is part of the money-saving mission for CUB, which is appealing a $273 million ComEd increase as it prepares to review a new ComEd request for a $396 million rate hike.

CUB is Illinois’ leading nonprofit utility watchdog organization. Created by the Illinois Legislature, CUB opened its doors in 1984 to represent the interests of residential and small-business utility customers. Since then, CUB has saved consumers more than $10 billion by helping to block rate hikes and secure consumer refunds. For more information, call CUB’s Consumer Hotline, at 1-800-669-5556, or visit CUB’s award-winning website, www.CitizensUtilityBoard.org.