Generate Your Own Clean, Renewable Energy
After retrofitting to seal up energy leaks, the next best way to save money on electricity bills is to generate your own clean, renewable energy. A number of rebates and incentives are available to help you install renewable energy systems, including solar water heaters, solar panels, small-scale wind, and geothermal systems.
Solar water heating is a great way to harness the free power of the sun to cut down on energy bills.
- Sunset Valley
- Bryan Texas Utilities
- City of Denton
- New Braunfels Utilities
- Oncor
- Texas Gas Service
- Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative
- CPS Energy
- Federal tax credits for solar water heaters
State and federal program also provide incentives for installing photovoltaic solar panels, wind, biomass, and geothermal systems in your home or business:
- Farmers Electric Cooperative
- Sunset Valley
- Austin Energy
- Bryan Texas Utilities
- City of College Station
- El Paso Electric
- Texas New Mexico Power
- Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative
- CPS Energy
- Statewide property tax exemption for renewable energy
- Federal tax credits for renewable energy generation, including solar panels and small-scale wind
Once you’re generating clean energy at home, you can sign up for net metering, a service through which utilities compensate customers for energy they generate but do not use. Contact your utility company to sign up.