Get paid to use less electricity

Your electric and gas utilities will pay you to reduce your energy use. They will pay you to pay them less.

Electric and gas utilities will often pay part of the cost of buying and installing new appliances, lighting and temperature control equipment in residential, commercial, government and industrial buildings. These programs are usually structured to encourage faster adoption of new technologies, but sometimes they provide incentives to replace particularly old technologies.

Puget Sound Energy does this. Systems for which they offers incentives for upgrades include lighting, insulation, he...