Electric Bills

It happens once a month. You pick up the day’s mail and there it is: the electric bill. Your reaction will probably depend on the time of year and the amount of last month’s bill. When you open it and find the “amount due” line, your response will lie somewhere along the spectrum of: “Phew! Less than I expected!” to “Oh my gosh! Why is it so high?”

Whatever the response to the monthly electric bill, most electricity consumers have one thing in common: They feel powerless to make the kind of changes that will significantly lower electric bills.

It may have once been true that consumers could not do much to decrease the cost of electricity to their homes. Today, however, there are excellent options that will lower electric bills by as much as 15% or even more. And with incentives like energy tax credits, homeowners across the country are steadily moving toward renewable energy to ease electricity cost.

Knowledge is power

In this case, knowledge is electric power. In this section of the site, you can learn how:

• To read your electric bill and make sense of the information it contains.
• To obtain energy tax credits by implementing renewable energy for some or all of your electricity needs.
• How electricity rates vary by state and by season, and how to get information about rate in your own state.

Knowing how to read your bill, what options you have for selecting an electric provider, and how energy tax credits can help with electricity cost will give you the power you need to make significant and positive changes to your electric bills.