MidAmerican Energy Company

Did you know that you typically spend more to light your home than you do to operate your refrigerator all year long? If you're still using standard light bulbs and inefficient fixtures, you're wasting energy and money. Switching to energy-efficient lighting can save you time, energy and money, and help protect the environment. Make your next light bulb an ENERGY STAR.

ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent light bulbs:

If every U.S. household replaced their five most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them with ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR, close to $8 billion a year in energy costs would be saved, and together we would prevent greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the emissions from nearly 10 million cars.

FACT: The energy used in the average home can be responsible for more than twice the greenhouse gas emissions of the average car. Using less energy at home means helping protect the environment from the risks of global climate change.

Save even more! Now through Nov. 30, MidAmerican's Iowa electric customers can get a $2 instant rebate on ENERGY STAR qualified bulbs at participating Ace Hardware, Do It Best, Hy-Vee, Theisen’s and True Value Hardware locations. Limit 12 bulbs per customer. Offer valid Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 2008, while supplies last. For a list of participating providers, visit www.iowachangealight.com.

MidAmerican Energy has made a commitment to do its part to save energy and help protect the environment. Join us and take the ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge to change at least one light in your home to an energy-efficient one and help us reach our goal of 500 pledges, which will save 141,000 kWh of energy and prevent 204,500 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Every light changed is a step in the right direction.

The ENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World campaign is a national challenge sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy to encourage Americans to help change the world one light, one step, at a time.