PSEG Long Island Celebrates Cut Your Energy Costs Day with Affordability Tips

(UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Jan. 9, 2026)  PSEG Long Island is celebrating National Cut Your Energy Costs Day, observed each year on Jan. 10, by offering useful energy affordability tips to help customers manage their expenses.

“Cut Your Energy Costs Day is a great time to revisit the simple ways that you can make your energy more affordable, while also helping the environment. PSEG Long Island offers free tools for customers to assess their home’s energy usage and energy-saving tips. We encourage everyone to take a look.”

-  Michael Voltz, Director of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, PSEG Long Island

 Assessment tools:

• The Home Energy Assessment is PSEG Long Island’s comprehensive in-home evaluation of their home’s energy use, heating, cooling and weatherization. The results of this free assessment can determine whether a customer is eligible for incentives and/or low-interest loans for making their space more energy efficient. 

How all customers can lower their bills

• Seal windows and doorframes with weather stripping or caulk, and cover window air conditioners to help to prevent drafts that waste energy and money.
• Ceiling fans can be used to save energy in winter. Setting a fan to rotate clockwise on low pulls cool air toward the ceiling, pushing warm air down into a room.
• Lower your thermostat by just one degree to potentially reduce your heating bill. Lowering it two degrees during the day and five to 10 degrees at night will save even more.
• Use a programmable thermostat. ENERGY STAR® estimates that homes with high heating and cooling bills, as well as homes that are unoccupied for much of the day, can save approximately $100 a year with an ENERGY STAR® certified smart thermostat. In addition, PSEG Long Island offers rebates on qualifying smart thermostats.
• Replace inefficient incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs since, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, lighting accounts for about 15% of the electricity used in the home, and LEDs use up to 90% less energy and last up to 25 times longer.
• Customers on Time-of-Day rates can run the dishwasher, clothes dryer and other high-energy-use appliances outside of peak hours.
• Customers on Time-of-Day rates can charge electric vehicles to run outside of peak hours. 
• Install a high efficiency air source heat pump (ASHP) to lower energy usage in cold and hot months. Rebates are available from PSEG Long Island.

More money-saving ideas and rebate information are available at psegliny.com/saveenergyandmoney/energystarrebates.


For more tips, customers can check out PSEG Long Island’s 66 Ways to Save and share their favorites in the Cut Your Energy Costs Day conversation on social media – use the hashtag: #CutYourEnergyCostsDay and tag @PSEGLI.

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PSEG Long Island
PSEG Long Island operates the Long Island Power Authority’s transmission and distribution system under a long-term contract.  PSEG Long Island is a subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG) (NYSE:PEG), a publicly traded diversified energy company.