If you’re interested in participating in the Arizona Appliance Rebate Program which starts April 12, wait for this information to be announced: The telephone number and website address where you can make your reservation. What time on April 12 you’ll be able to make your reservation. I’ll post this information as soon as it becomes [...]

The latest news on the Arizona Appliance Rebate Program is the confirmation that you can’t buy your appliance before April 12, 2010 if you want to participate in the rebate program.  But this doesn’t mean you have to sit idle between now and April 12.  Use this time to research and price out the appliance [...]

The Arizona Department of Commerce’s Energy Office just announced the Arizona Appliance Rebate Program. Details are still sketchy, but I’ll give you a low-down on what you need to know in this week’s posts. There are three items that are eligible for this rebate: clothes washers, dishwashers and water heaters. The reason Arizona decided to [...]

Heating water accounts for up to 30 percent of the average home’s energy budget. So if you have an energy-hog of a water heater that you inherited with your 30-year-old home, you might want to consider replacing it.  Like most people, you’ll want to  wait until you have a problem with your water heater before [...]

In my previous blog “Huge Utility Bill and Hot Guests” I talked about how we just couldn’t cool 3 Palms down on a hot summer day when we had guests and I had used my wall oven to bake enchiladas.  This blog post is a follow-up on the oven part of that story. At 3 [...]