Austin Energy offers free home energy improvements to customers with low to moderate incomes who qualify. The improvements reduce energy costs and enhance indoor comfort. Qualifying customers can have their home weatherized and receive home improvements. These improvements include attic insulation, solar screens, compact fluorescent light bulbs, minor duct repair and sealing, caulking and weather stripping and other improvements. Customers participating in the program can realize energy savings from 6 to 21 percent. Find more information at http://austinenergy.com/go/reports.

Austin Energy provides rebates and low interest loans to customers who make energy efficiency improvements. During fiscal year 2012, energy savings totaled nearly 106-million kilowatt hours. That's enough electricity to power nearly 9,400 residential homes in Austin.