ACE - Blueprint for the Future
New technology will lead the way toward energy independence in the comprehensive plan filed by Atlantic City Electric. The proposals include Demand Side Management efforts, such as rebates or other incentives for residential customers to update inefficient appliances with Energy Star replacements. Customers could also receive credits on their bills for allowing ACE to “cycle,” or intermittently turn off, their central air conditioning or heat pumps when wholesale electricity prices are high.
If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
