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Learn how BGE customers are saving energy and money with BGE Smart Energy Rewards®.
Crofton
The Smart Meter Makes It Possible.
Columbia
Millersville
Ellicott City
BGE Smart Energy Rewards® is easy. We were notified of an upcoming Energy Savings Day by email and we also received a phone call, which helped us prepare. With the day-ahead notice for an Energy Savings Day, we knew exactly what to do the next day to save extra money. We were already saving money with the PeakRewardsSM program so we focused on doing additional things around to save even more. We turned off appliances and gadgets—even our cable box, and avoided appliances that produce heat, like the oven.
We saved money, but we also did our part in reducing the overall demand for electricity. For us, the best part about this program is that it helps save energy, reduces the need for more power plants and is therefore better for the environment.
Dan and Coleen’s Energy Savings Day tips:
Severn
Savings and reliability.
It’s a great thing for all of us to reduce electricity use whenever we can—especially when everyone else is using it during the summer months. I’d rather do without for a little bit than lose electricity totally because everybody is using a lot at the same time.
Laurel
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