Resolutions

Here's a little help with making those resolutions...

1. Set your thermostat to 68 degrees in winter and 78 degrees in summer. If that's too much for your comfort, pledge to lower it 2 degrees during heating season and raise it 2 degrees during cooling season.

2. Avoid paperwork! Adopt electronic billing to eliminate postage, reduce paper use and shorten that stack of documents at home waiting to be filed.

3. Check your air filter each month when your MLGW bill arrives. For customers using flat filters, change monthly. Customers using pleated filters can often go as long as three months between changes.

4. Vow to reduce your home's energy use by 10% in 2010. Complete the Home Profile and My Appliances question sets under My Account at www.mlgw.com, and then act on the recommendations. Based on recent customer survey results, customers can save an average 1,700 kWh--that's $136 a year--by making simple changes in habits and low-cost improvements.