Tips to Lower Your Energy Bills

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

To ease the pain from record-high gasoline prices, the Alliance to Save Energy offers consumers tips for cutting gas costs.

• DOE/Alliance Powerful $avings campaign vehicle tax credits and gas tips.
  
• Sugerencias para ahorrar dinero en gasolina en la temporada alta del verano

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.
• Holiday Lights

Higher electricity bills to power office equipment and lighting are an inevitable cost of doing business from home. Reduce energy costs while staying comfortable and “taking care of business” with these tips.

There is a water crisis threatening two-thirds of the world's population. The western United States is in the fifth year of a drought. It often takes a drought and low groundwater supplies to get our attention on the need to reduce unnecessary water usage.

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.

Consumers can keep their natural gas bills from skyrocketing, help ensure electricity reliability, and reduce air pollution by adopting energy-efficiency measures.

Alliance Associate Washington Gas produced a video in conjunction with the Alliance to help consumers reduce their natural gas bills.

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. 

To improve your home's "Physical Fitness" to brave the elements and keep you comfortable in winter AND reduce your energy bills and the nation's energy use, check out these tips. More winter tips in English and Spanish (Español).