Energy-Saving Tip of the Week
You can save about half the energy you’d normally consume for conventional cooking by using a microwave oven. In addition, your microwave won't heat up your kitchen, which will help reduce your home’s cooling costs later this year.
The Earned Income Tax Credit can put money in your pocket
Did you know you might qualify to get
up to $5,600 back from the Internal Revenue
Service? The agency estimates that
one in four eligible taxpayers misses out
on the Earned Income
Tax Credit – EITC – simply
because they don’t claim
it on their tax returns.
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IF YOU WEREN'T LUCKY ENOUGH TO RECEIVE A REBATE FROM THE STATE APPLIANCE REBATE PROGRAM, YOUR LOCAL ELECTRIC CO-OP HAS SOME GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. Contact your co-op about rebates and other energy-saving incentives it now has in effect. To go to your co-op' Web site, click here or hit Go to My Co-op in the blue box at left.
It's time for you to make your voice heard to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from doing something Congress never intended – regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the federal Clean Air Act.
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In most households, it’s possible to cut the amount of energy used to heat water by 25 percent to 50 percent—just by implementing a few water-saving steps and increasing the hot-water system’s overall efficiency. » Read more
For decades, electric utilities across the country have relied on fossil fuels – burning coal and natural gas to create steam, spin turbines and generate electricity. While fossil fuels remain the most cost-effective way to create massive amounts of electricity today, this may not be the case in the future. » Read more
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The energy-saving choices you
make today should continue to pay
dividends for many years to come.
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Co-op Cooks
Fire extinguishers are only as good as your ability to operate them
There are four simple steps to using a fire extinguisher, easily remembered by PASS:
•PULL the pin.
•AIM at the base of the fire.
•SQUEEZE the lever.
•SWEEP back and forth.
The Fire Equipment Manufacturers’ Association recommends that you use a fire extinguisher on a small, contained fire only after you have called the fire department and safely evacuated everyone from your home. To learn more, go here.
Geothermal heat pumps offer efficiency from the ground up
The cost of installing a geothermal heat pump is significantly more expensive than a standard air-to-air heat pump, but the federal energy tax credit – which provides a 30 percent tax credit on the installation of a geothermal system – makes the
initial expense more reasonable.
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