NBC25 NEWS - Allegheny Power is hoping to make customers more energy efficient by sending them a longer lasting light bulb.

This is all a part of Allegheny Power's “Watt Watchers” program.  Customers are paying for the bulbs through an energy conservation surcharge of 96 cents per month.

The company will be mailing out two Earth Brite compact fluorescent bulbs to about 400,000 Maryland customers by the end of November.

They use about 75 percent less energy than standard bulbs and lasts up to ten times longer.  Customers will be saving about a dollar a month.

It may not be much, but even if you change one bulb in your home to an Earth Brite one makes a huge impact to the environment.

Todd Meyers, of Allegheny Energy, said, "It saves about the equivalent.  Just the two bulbs we'll be sending out -- in about a year, 15,000 emissions from tailpipes a year, so that's a lot of greenhouse gases for these little bulbs."