How to avoid sweating your energy bill in the high heat

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- AccuWeather alerts are successful spot crossed the Valley and you mightiness beryllium getting alerts from PG&E astir a abrupt summation successful your bill

To debar sweating astir much than conscionable the heat, PG&E recommended respective ways to support your location chill without cranking up the aerial conditioning.

Spokesperson Jeff Smith said much than fractional of Central Valley customers' electrical bills are from utilizing the AC.

To support the outgo down, helium recommended getting a programmable thermostat that lone turns the aerial connected portion you're location and mounting the somesthesia higher.

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"So the higher you tin acceptable your somesthesia successful your house, wellness permitting the little your wide vigor measure volition be," said Smith.

"Our proposal is 78 oregon higher successful your home, wellness permitting of course, volition assistance support vigor costs successful line."

You'll besides privation to beryllium definite to cheque the filters successful your portion each 3 months oregon so, said Smith, to support it moving successful apical condition.

To chopped backmost connected however agelong the AC is connected Smith recommended opening your windows aboriginal successful the greeting and precocious astatine nighttime erstwhile the aerial is chill and past trapping that chill aerial successful your location earlier turning connected the AC.

"Once the temperatures commencement to rise, unopen your windows, unopen your drapes and the darker you tin marque it to forestall that sunlight from coming successful that's going to assistance trim your wide costs and support the somesthesia successful your little people without having to usage your aerial conditioner," said Smith.

PG&E offers respective programs that assistance little your measure overall, specified arsenic the Power Saver program, which offers discounts to for reducing your electrical usage during the highest hours of 4 to 9 pm.

There is besides the Smart Rate plan, which offers a little complaint for minimizing usage during those aforesaid hours up to 15 blistery days during the year.

If you request much alleviation Smith said to scope retired to PG&E.

"We privation to enactment with you enactment you connected outgo program," said Smith. "There's a assortment of antithetic things we tin do. We truly privation to effort and assistance find a acceptable that volition conscionable our customers needs."

You could beryllium eligible for a monthly discount of up to 20% done the California Alternate Rates for Energy oregon CARE programme based connected your income oregon enrollment successful nationalist assistance programs.

There is besides the REACH programme that applies payments straight to the past-due inferior bills for eligible families.

For PG&E programme options, click herel

If you request assistance beyond what PG&E offers, you tin apply for LIHEAP done the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission.

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