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By Stephanie D ur ant , March 15, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Did you know that you don't have to use
ComEd? That's right....you have a choice!
SAVE MONEY ON YOUR ELECTRIC BILL!
In order to get you that extra $300/month to put in
your savings to become a millionaire, why not start
by saving money on your electric bill? Check out
Power2Switch! I chatted with the founder, Seyi Fabode last week and he
told me all about his passion....saving people money!
Seyi was inspired to start
Power2Switch when he
worked for a power
generation plant in London
where most of the clients
were large businesses. He
noticed that few paid
attention to small
businesses or residential
customers, so while getting
his MBA from Booth School
of Business; he started
looking to bring choices to
those groups. Not only
would this be an opportunity
to save money, it would also
be an opportunity to engage
in alternate energy than
ComEd. See (in honor of
Saving money and going green? Both are
Earth Week) you can also
possible with Power2Switch!!
go GREEN in addition to
saving your green Power2Switch offers alternate energy options, like renewable energy from
local wind farms! How cool is that!
MEET THE BLOGGER
Stephanie
Durant
I'm Stephanie, your local
north-sider Chicagoan with
advice on everything frugal! I
enjoy living joyfully without
excessive spending and sharing my 'saving money'
advice & practices with others. I am a Christian
and love music-making, cooking, traveling the world
and of course, blogging! "LIKE" me on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/Frugirlsteph
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ABOUT POWER2SWITCH
In 2010, the site Power2Switch was launched and it began offering
residential electric customers powerful options in 2011. Currently
only 0.03% of Illinois residents have switched or even know the fact that you
can ditch ComEd and switch over to a number of either cheaper or greener
providers....the website Power2Switch breaks it all down easy for you - and
if you have questions about switching, just call and ask and they'll walk you
through the process. It's a small operation for now, focusing on providing
quality service to customers in Illinois, but as the word gets around about
saving thousands of dollars, others will start catching on and switching!
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Seyi, as I mentioned before, is like me and is very passionate about helping
others save money. His favorite moments with Power2Switch are getting
emails of positive feedback of big savings!
SIMPLE ENERGY SAVINGS ADVICE
Seyi mentioned in addition to switching to save money, there are other
simple ways to save...
1. Turn off the lights when you aren't using them.
2. Never sleep with the lights on - it's a huge waste (of $ and electricity)
3. Kill the Vampires! (Vampire plugs that is!) Energy Vampires
are appliances that use energy even while they're not on, see...they
are dead but still suck energy,...hence, they are vampires - anyway,
Seyi mentioned you can replace regular plugs with special antivampire plugs. These are great for TVs, computers and they monitor
how long appliances have been on and turn them off when unused saving you money on your electric bill! You can find these online or at
Home/Hardware stores.
4. Ask your landlord for energy-efficient appliances, like "Energy-Star
Rated". In the long run, they will save you both money! It's a win-win!
The best thing about saving energy is, not only is it good for your
budget, it's good for the Earth too! Happy Earth Week! Now, go
switch your energy provider!!!
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jack said April 21, 2011 at 12:00 am
Does he offer all electric home discount? We need that in condos.
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Hi Jack, none of the suppliers we work with currently offer allelectric home discounts. I'll reach out to you once these types of
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