Progress Energy Carolinas to Provide Discounted CFL Bulbs to Customers
20 September 2007 - 1:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Company Partnering With The Home Depot on Energy-Efficiency Program
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Progress Energy Carolinas
is partnering with The Home Depot on a program to provide
discounted ENERGY STAR(R)-qualified compact fluorescent light bulbs
(CFLs) at selected The Home Depot locations in Progress Energy
Carolinas' service territory. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020923/CHM008LOGO-c ) The
N.C. Utilities Commission approved the program earlier this week.
The program will begin Oct. 1 and last until Dec. 30 or while
supplies last. Up to 200,000 ENERGY STAR-qualified CFLs will be
sold as part of the program. "We're committed to energy efficiency
and want to make it easy and cost- effective for our customers to
use energy wisely," said Lloyd Yates, president and CEO - Progress
Energy Carolinas. "This project will allow us to increase awareness
and use of CFLs among our customers in the Carolinas." The CFL
program is one part of the company's balanced solution to
addressing future energy needs, which includes energy efficiency,
alternative and renewable energy and state-of-the-art power plants.
ENERGY STAR-qualified CFLs use about 75 percent less energy than
incandescent bulbs and produce 75 percent less heat. In addition,
the bulbs can last 6,000-10,000 hours, six to 10 times longer than
incandescent bulbs. Customers will be able to visit The Home Depot
locations in Progress Energy Carolinas' service territory (list
below) and purchase multipacks of the most commonly used CFLs
(40-watt, 60-watt and 100-watt equivalents) at a discounted price.
Progress Energy will use information from the program to evaluate
the potential of CFLs for reducing energy demand and usage. These
results will be used to determine the potential system impacts and
cost effectiveness of CFLs on a full-scale basis with Progress
Energy Carolinas' 1.4 million customers. Discounted ENERGY
STAR-qualified CFLs will be available at the following The Home
Depot locations: Asheville, N.C. 127 Acton Circle 795 Fairview Road
Cary, N.C. 2031 Walnut Street Florence, S.C. 3051 West Radio Drive
Fuquay-Varina, N.C. 901 East Broad Street Garner, N.C. 2540 Timber
Drive Jacksonville, N.C. 479 Western Boulevard Knightdale, N.C.
1020 Shoppes at Midway Drive Raleigh, N.C. 9517 Strickland Road
4901 Capital Boulevard Wilmington, N.C. 210 Eastwood Road Progress
Energy, headquartered in Raleigh, is a Fortune 250 energy company
with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $10
billion in annual revenues. The company includes two major
utilities that serve more than 3.1 million customers in the
Carolinas and Florida. Progress Energy is the 2006 recipient of the
Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest
honor, in recognition of its operational excellence. The company
also is the first utility to receive the prestigious J.D. Power and
Associates Founder's Award for customer service. Progress Energy
serves two fast-growing areas of the country, and the company is
pursuing a balanced approach to meeting the future energy needs of
the region. That balance includes increased energy efficiency
programs, investments in renewable energy technologies and a
state-of-the-art electricity system. For more information about
Progress Energy, visit the company's Web site at
http://www.progress-energy.com/.
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