Category Archives: Saving Money and Energy
UIL’s Safety and Efficiency Gift Guide for the Holidays
When you’re making a holiday gift list and checking it twice, remember that the best present is a safe and efficient home where family members feel the warm glow of the season without worry.
In order to provide some holiday help, UIL Holdings Corporation and its family of companies — UI, SCG, CNG and Berkshire Gas — present a holiday safety and efficiency gift guide for everyone in the family.
UI’s Standard Service Customers to See Lower Bills This Winter
If you are a residential customer of The United Illuminating Company who receives the Standard Service generation rate, there’s a lot to like coming soon. Effective Jan. 1, bills will be lower compared with last winter.
UI Offers Money & Energy Saving Tips
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The United Illuminating Company cares about you saving energy and money. Here are a few tips. An LED light bulb uses up to 90 percent less power than an incandescent bulb, and lasts 25 times longer. Switch out five of your home’s most frequently used lights with LED bulbs. These bulbs use less electricity and last longer. For more tips on how to conserve energy, such as the benefits of waiting until 8 p.m. to use major appliances, go to uinet.com.
Infographic: Programmable Thermostats
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6 Tips to Save Energy When You ‘Fall Back’
Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, Nov. 1. When you set your clocks back, there’s no better time to look around your house to find ways to save on energy costs.
As the nights grow longer and colder, families spend more time indoors with the lights turned on and the thermostat turned up.
Here are some tips for keeping your energy costs down.
What’s Your Home Energy Efficiency IQ?
Think you run a tight ship, energy-wise? Take this short quiz to find out how much you know about saving money on energy at home. Then, visit Energize Connecticut to get more energy-saving tips.
Fight Back Against Energy Vampires and Other Hidden Horrors
Do you live in a house of energy horrors? Does “phantom” energy menace your monthly budget? Are you letting energy “vampires” suck you dry?
It’s enough to make you want to scream.
You don’t have to let unnecessary energy loss bedevil your budget. UIL Holdings Corporation (NYSE: UIL), parent company of The United Illuminating Company, The Southern Connecticut Gas Company, Connecticut Natural Gas Company and The Berkshire Gas Company, offers tips and tools to help customers fight back against the hidden horrors that can drain the lifeblood from their budgets.