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Conservation & Tips
-100 Ways to Improve Your Energy Bill [pdf] | Audio Podcast
Read or hear helpful energy tips that can save you money.

-Energy Savers
Energy Savers provides homeowners with tips for saving energy and money at home and on the road.

-Go Green Resources
A comprehensive list of links to a variety of state resources, providing you with information on how to reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink.

-Hogbusters Training Camp
For young adults: A series of engaging, interactive games about easy ways to conserve energy.

Tax Credits, Grants, & Rebates
-Tax Credits: U.S. Energy Policy Act
This bill provides federal tax credits for energy saving home and car-related expenses.

-Delaware Green Energy Program
The Delaware Energy Office offers grants up to 50% of the installed cost of photovoltaic, solar water heating, wind, and geothermal renewable energy technologies.

-ENERGY STAR Appliance Rebate Program
This rebate program offers rebates of up to $100 for the purchase of an ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerator, freezer, clothes washer or dehumidifier.

Get Assistance
-Delaware Helpline (1.800.464.HELP)
The Delaware Helpline provides information and referrals to help citizens find the appropriate offices, legislators, and help they need. Use the Helpline to get immediate assistance.

-Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
The Delaware Energy Assistance Program (DEAP) is a federally funded program for eligible low-income families that need help in meeting their costs of home energy. DEAP provides fuel assistance and crisis assistance.

-Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
The Delaware Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) installs energy efficiency improvements in the homes of eligible low-income persons and households to reduce their energy burden, lower their energy costs and improve their health and safety in the home.

-Chesapeake Utilities Sharing Program
The Sharing Program assists elderly, disabled or fixed income households with energy costs. Customer donations and matching shareholder contributions are administered by Catholic Charities in Kent and New Castle counties and by the Salvation Army in Sussex county.

-Delmarva Power's Budget Billing
With the Budget Billing option, you can avoid seasonal peaks in your electric and/or natural gas bills by dividing your payments evenly over the course of the entire year.

-Delmarva Power's Payment Support Assistance
Information about assistance available to Delmarva Power customers, including information about the Salvation Army's Good Neighbor Program, which helps eligible customers in need.
Updated:Monday, 11-Jan-2010
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