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About Us

Carbon Free Homes is an initiative of the Public Utilities Commission. Carbon Free Homes works in partnership with the Public Utility Commission's Efficeincy Maine, which helps Mainers reduce energy consumption and costs at home and in the workplace.

About Efficiency Maine

The dedicated Efficiency Maine team, with the help of hundreds of Program Allies statewide, supports several programs to accomplish these goals. The two most broadly based programs are:

• The Business Program, which provides technical assistance and cash incentives to help businesses install more efficient lighting, HVAC, and other equipment
• The Residential Program, which encourages households to switch to energy-efficient CFLs and appliances.

For more information about Efficiency Maine and its programs, visit efficiencymaine.com

Sparked by an act of the Maine Legislature, the PUC launched Carbon Free Homes on Earth Day (April 22), 2007 to increase awareness of clean energy and energy efficiency in Maine. Carbon Free Homes' primary goal is to help Maine take a further step towards reducing our use of fossil fuels, our CO2 emissions, our contribution to global warming, and our dependence on imported oil and gas — currently our main sources of electricity — by promoting clean energy alternatives to Maine electricity consumers.

Carbon Free Homes helps Maine households become a part of the solution by making it easy to...

• calculate their present carbon footprint
• take simple steps that can cut their energy consumption — and utility bills
• switch to clean energy, such as wind and solar power, or purchase Clean Energy Credits (also known as renewable energy certificates or RECs), which help support the market for sustainable energy

Your participation in Carbon Free Homes can make a real difference to our Maine economy and environment today... and for generations to come.

About the PUC

Under the management of Chairman Kurt Adams and Commissioners Sharon Reishus and Vendean Vafiades, the Public Utilities Commission is a State agency committed to ensuring that consumers have access to safe and reliable service for public utilities and that the rates for these utilities are just and reasonable. Other PUC programs besides Efficiency Maine include Maine Enhanced 911 Service and Dig Safe. For more information, visit maine.gov/mpuc/

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"Maine Interfaith Power and Light offers clean, renewable electricity to Maine home owners to help slow global warming and support sustainable energy independence here at home. At the same time, we are adamant proponents of avoiding electricity use whenever possible; reducing electricity use when its needed; and as a last resort using clean electricity for what you do use. Carbon Free Homes shows you just how to do that, and in a way that's simple and saves you money while reducing your impact on the environment. For these reasons Maine Interfaith Power and Light is proud to call itself a Carbon Free Homes Partner!"


Dave Platt, President — Maine Interfaith Power and Light

Maine Public Utilities Commission
242 State Street, 18 State House Station · Augusta, Maine 04333-0018
Tel: 800-452-4699 Fax: 207-287-1039
http://www.maine.gov/mpuc/
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