FPL helps customers keep green resolutions
JUNO BEACH, FLORIDA - Florida Power & Light Company offers some year-round recommendations that you and your family can resolve to make in 2010.
An energy-efficient New YearÂ’s resolution will help protect the environment and save you money on your electric bill all year long.
Energy efficiency can be easy. You can resolve to save energy and money in 2010 with these very simple tips. Visit www.FPL.com or become a fan of FPL Energy Tips at www.facebook.com/fplenergytips to learn about these tips and more.
• Turn off ceiling fans when you leave a room.
• Clean your air-conditioning filter once a month.
• Close your refrigerator door after getting the food you need.
• Cook with a toaster or microwave instead of the oven whenever possible.
• Don’t pre-rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher.
• Cool or heat your home only when you're there.
• Use cold water to wash your clothes.
• Clean the lint filter in your dryer after every load.
• Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lights.
• Unplug electronics when not in use.
Related News

Bill Gates’ Nuclear Startup Unveils Mini-Reactor Design Including Molten Salt Energy Storage
SAN FRANCISCO - Nuclear power is the Immovable Object of generation sources. It can take days just to bring a nuclear plant completely online, rendering it useless as a tool to manage the fluctuations in the supply and demand on a modern energy grid.
Now a firm launched by Bill Gates in 2006, TerraPower, in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, believes it has found a way to make the infamously unwieldy energy source a great deal nimbler — and for an affordable price.
The new design, announced by TerraPower on August 27th, is a combination of a "sodium-cooled fast reactor"…