A $7.00 Credit On Your Idaho Power Bill This Summer

This month I signed up for Idaho Powers A/C Cool Credit program.

A/C Cool Credit is an air conditioner cycling program that results in a shift of energy during the highest-use summer days, helping to ensure reliable power for everyone. It also helps keep costs down by lessening demand for power when electricity demand is at its highest and is most expensive to produce or purchase.

A Cool Switch device is installed near your A/C unit. On a few summer days when electricity is at its peak, the Cool Switch will cycle your A/C about 50 percent of the time. For instance, off for 15 minutes, then on for 15 minutes. This intermittent cycling is safe for your A/C and helps to make sure your home stays comfortable.

Essentially this program switches the demand for energy to non-peak hours in order to better utilize the capacity of the electrical system and can help prevent black outs.

Although your personal energy consumption probably won't change you do get a $7.00 credit on our June, July and August bills.

Switches must be installed by the 15th of June, July and August to get the next months credit.

$7.00 may not seem like much every month but to a couponer it is a fortune.

They installed ours this last week and it was quick and easy. I am unsure yet on what impact it will have on how hot our home gets in the summer. I'll let everyone know as the warmer weather progresses.

If you are interested in this program go here to find out more information.

Friday Night is Family Movie Night

My husband and I were watching TV together last night and there was a commercial for Walmart and P & G's presentation of Secrets of the Mountain. My husband (although in a slight sarcastic way) suggested that we watch it. I could only laugh (he knows I hate TV movies, it's just a quirk of mine). Plus, after watching the preview it looked a little too scary for my little ones. (We have been scared by Disney shows and I really like don't like to have children in my bed at night. It may be that I I enjoy having more than an inch of moving space but who knows. )
I liked the idea of a family movie night tonight though, so I have come up with a few options. Redbox or Netflicks.

Redbox has insainly cheap movie rentals. Only 1.00 per night and not having to go to a video store with my kids is right up my alley. The drawback is that new releases can be hard to get and on weekends there tend to be long lines. But if you sign up for their email alerts here then you can get codes for free rentals.

On another note my family subscribes to Netflicks. We get one movie in the mail a week and can stream hundreds of movies to our TV for only 9.00 per month. We love to stream movies and TV shows (a big screen and blueray player with Netflicks capabilities have been one of our greatest investments this winter). But since we watch it a lot there aren't a ton of movies that we haven't seen and they don't put on new ones on streaming as often as I would like.

So which one are we going to do? I'm not sure yet. It seems like too much work for just a movie. Maybe we'll go for a walk instead.