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Energy-efficiency rebates given as incentives for purchasing or upgrading lighting, air conditioning, refrigeration, agricultural equipment, water heating systems, and motors.
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Training courses that provide the latest information on energy saving technology and design applications.
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Demand-exchange programs, accessed through the Internet, where the electric company offers customers a "strike price" to voluntarily shed their load, with the customer receiving a percentage of the savings obtained by the electric company for not purchasing power in the wholesale market. Customers can also bid on price and amount.
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Demand-management programs that pay large commercial and industrial customers to use less power during peak periods or shift power to non-peak periods.
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Irrigation programs that encourage irrigators to plant less water-intensive crops or that allow utilities to purchase their water rights or solicit energy and capacity reductions from them.
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