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Power Pledge

Will you consider making a Power Pledge to become more energy efficient?

We’re asking our customers to make a promise to consider energy efficiency more than they have before. Just promise yourself, or if you like, register your promise online.

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Power of Working Together

Simple energy-saving actions can add up to help our environment
Take one small action. It doesn't seem like much. But if all MGE customers do that same small thing, the collective impact can be impressive. See table below.

All actions count
Some actions add up more quickly than others. Anything that saves heating, cooling or water heating will add up most quickly because they are typically the biggest energy users in a home.

Power of Working Together calculations
The Energy Center of Wisconsin has estimated and provided documentation for the environmental savings from specific actions.

For more actions and how the savings were calculated, see: The Power of Working Together [PDF - 429 KB]

 

 

Action
Results
1 person
All MGE customers
Energy Saved
CO2 Saved
Energy Saved
(millions)
CO2 Saved
(millions)
Set temperature back 1 degree 80 kWh 177 lbs 1.1 kWh 6.4 lbs
Change 1 light to CFL 76 kWh 168 lbs 11.9 kWh 26.4 lbs
Wash laundry in cold water 159 kWh 880 lbs 22.3 kWh 123.0 lbs
Buy ENERGY STAR® furnace 78 therms 920 lbs 2.5 therms 29.2 lbs
Buy high-SEER central AC 477 kWh 1,057 lbs 31.9 kWh 70.8 lbs


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