Changing your light bulbs is just the beginning of great ways to save energy...
Look around your home. There are simple things you can do to save money on your electric bill. Click here for more money-saving tips.

Product of the Month

BITS Smart Strip Power Strip
With this 10 outlet Smart Strip Power Strip, the outlets work together, auto-switching your devices on and off automatically, saving you money on your electric bills. Three of the outlets always have power, allowing you to plug-in devices that should never turn off. Six outlets will automatically turn off whenever a 10%+ drop in current to the main outlet is detected, and automatically turn on when an increase of 7 watts or more in power to the main outlet is sensed. In other words, plug your computer into the main outlet, and its peripherals into any of the other six. When you shut down your computer, all of the peripherals will also turn off. When you turn on your computer, the peripherals will all turn on.

Click here for more information: BITS Smart Stript Power Strip

A New Home Team to root for: the Green Team!

Efficiency Maine was the sole sponsor of a half-hour show on WPXT-TV and WPME-TV featuring an energy - efficiency makeover of a local family's home. Click here to watch host John Marshall and Efficiency Maine's own Dick Bacon, Dick Fortier and Lotte Schlegel oversee the installation by local contractors of a solar hot water system, energy-efficient lighting and appliances, green insulation and more! As the final step to make the home "carbon-free," clean energy supply was donated to offset all remaining carbon emissions for one full year.

Maine Home Performance, a program of the Maine Public Utilities Commission, has joined the Efficiency Maine family!

The Maine Home Performance with Energy Star® (MaineHP) Program links Maine homeowners with qualified, certified contractors who provide one-stop-shop access to a whole-house approach to home improvements.

Clean Energy: Its time is here!

• Buy clean energy or Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and make yours a Carbon-Free Home
• Go solar for home-grown electricty, hot water and heat
• Biodiesel: the future of fuel in Maine?

In 2007 Efficiency Maine programs helped home and business owners save 87,404 MegaWatt hours of energy, worth an estimated $101 million in lifetime economic benefits. Click here to see how you may qualify for currently available financial aid and incentives to help you save energy!