Invest in the Future:
Expand Energy Efficiency

America’s electric companies are enhancing the efficiency of their operations. At the same time, they are investing in demand-side management (DSM) programs and services designed to help their customers save electricity and money.

Between 1989 and 2006, the electric utility sector spent more than $32 billion on DSM programs. The U.S. Department of Energy says that these programs helped to save almost 860 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.¹ That’s enough electricity to power almost 76 million homes for one year! And, this savings is equal to the annual electricity output of almost 110 baseload power plants (rated at 800 megawatts each and operating at a 90-percent capacity factor.

Electric companies now are pursuing a variety of innovative business and regulatory approaches that will encourage the use of state-of-the-art efficiency technologies and services that will save even more electricity and help the environment. They also are pursuing actions to seize a wide range of opportunities to improve energy efficiency.

The industry is focusing on ways to improve the efficiency of buildings and appliances, accelerate the development of advanced metering infrastructure, support innovative rates and regulation, advance more efficient distribution transformers, and encourage the development of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

You can do your part by always using electricity wisely.