Save $20 On Your Air Conditioning Bill

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The state Public Service Commission has
approved a plan for Alabama Power Co. to offer a $20 annual
discount to customers who agree to let their home air conditioning
be cut off for brief periods on hot summer weekdays.
Alabama Power would install devices on home air conditioners
that would allow them to be cut off for 15 minutes out of each
30-minute period when power demand is at its peak. That occurs on
weekday afternoons between June and September.
Customers who sign up for the new program would receive a $20
savings on their November bills.
Alabama Power will begin offering the program in the Birmingham
area and plans to have it statewide by the end of 2010. An Alabama
Power spokesman says most customers would never know the difference
because they would be at work when the program was in use.

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