Consumers

The Alliance to Save Energy and the DOE Offer Consumers Smart Energy Tips and Resources to Reduce Home Energy Bills and the Nation’s Energy Use.

• Sugerencias para reducir las facturas de energía de los hogares

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) extends, expands, and simplifies the federal income tax credits for homeowners who make energy efficiency home improvements.

For details on the 2009 and 2010 consumer tax credits, check out our frequently updated Energy-Efficiency Home and Vehicle Tax Credits web page.

Power blackouts and brownouts will increase in years to come. Here’s how consumers can easily and comfortably lighten the power load in their own homes — and cut energy bills and pollution, too.

• Electricity Reliability Fact Sheet
• Electricity Reliability White Paper
  — Get a printer-friendly PDF copy.
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The Alliance to Save Energy offers consumers a wide variety of tips to fit individual pocketbooks, including no-cost and low-cost money and energy saving tips.

Perhaps Super Heroes with Super Powers can save the day and come to the rescue with energy solutions as our nation battles high energy prices, galloping demand, tight supplies, increased pollution, and energy security threats.

Responding to consumer angst over high energy bills, the Alliance to Save Energy has taken to the nation's airwaves with new, humorous Super Powers TV and radio PSAs and extends the campaign to the web with webisodes and even a "secret web site"— which are part of a total Alliance public service campaign to help consumers lower their energy bills and the nation reduce its energy use.

Check out the campaign storyboard, scripts, news release and see/hear the PSAs. Washington Post coverage. Also: ClickZ coverage.

Curious to see how your car's fuel economy compares? Find out with this calculator from the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.

We've updated our state-by-state winter energy facts sheets for the 2008 – 2009 winter heating season. Each fact sheet describes how much home heating bills are likely to rise or fall compared with last winter’s bills, based on fuel costs in each state. Depending on heating fuel use, some homes will face higher costs, while others may see a decrease in heating expense. The sheets also provide energy efficiency tips to help cut heating and other home energy bills.