News Media Information

For media inquiries, please contact the California Energy Commission Media and Public Communications Office at (916) 654-4989.

The Cash For Appliances Program will generate a lot of public attention. Members of the news media are requested to contact the California Energy Commission Media & Public Communications Office to arrange interviews and to ask questions.

A Frequently Asked Questions page has been prepared to answer basic questions.

Please note that the Energy Commission is not spending any of the federal funds on marketing or advertising about the program. Account executives for radio, television, and printed media should not contact the Energy Commission for sales leads. Announcements about the program will be done with news stories and by Program Partners through their own advertising and marketing budgets.

News Media Materials

• December 15, 2010 - Final phase of Cash for Appliances Rebates Ending
  
  
• December 3, 2010 - Cash for Appliances Offers Consumers More Time to Correct Applications
  
  
• November 23, 2010 - Cash for Appliances Rebates Ending - Rebates for Refrigerators, Washers, and Others Ends December 6
  
  
• July 28, 2010 - Media Advisory: Cash for Appliances Rebate Program Expands - Consumers Can Begin Saving July 29
  
  
• July 28, 2010 - Media Advisory: Cash for Appliances Rebate Program Expands - Consumers Can Begin Saving July 29
  
  
• July 16, 2010 - Media Advisory: Cash for Appliances PLUS Rebate Program Expands with More Savings and Appliances
  
  
• May 27, 2010 - Media Advisory: Cash for Appliances Rebate Program Extended
  
  
• May 13, 2010 - More Time, More Choices, Lots of Cash - Consumers Benefit from California Appliance Rebate Program Expansion
  
  
• May 6, 2010 - Media Advisory: $26 Million Available for California Appliance Rebates
  
  
• April 30, 2010 - Cash for Appliances Rebates still Available - Buy, Recycle, and Save on New Appliances Today
  
  
• April 27, 2010 - 30-second Public Service Announcement (Version A) for radio stations. Produced by KCBS, San Francisco. (Done for Earth Day. Script says "Today is Earth Day..."). (MP3 audio file)
  
  
• April 27, 2010 - 30-second Public Service Announcement (Version B) for radio stations. Produced by KCBS, San Francisco. (MP3 audio file)
  
  
• April 22, 2010 - digital video clips for TV stations of Calif. Energy Commissioner Anthony Eggert answering questions and explaining the Cash For Appliances program. (Zipped Full Quality Quicktime Movie file - 751 MEGABYTES - PLEASE NOTE FILE SIZE! Right-click the link (option click on a Mac) to download the file.)
  
  
• April 22, 2010 - digital video clips - Consumer video of Calif. Energy Commissioner Anthony Eggert answering questions and explaining the Cash For Appliances program with words and titles superimposed. (Quicktime Movie file - 16.3 Megabytes - PLEASE NOTE FILE SIZE!)
  
  
• April 21, 2010 - two 30-second Public Service Announcement for radio stations. (MS Word file)
  
  
• April 21, 2010 - 15-second Public Service Announcement for radio stations. Produced by KCBS, San Francisco. (MP3 audio file)
  
  
• April 20, 2010 - Bullet points about the program and energy savings.
  
  
• April 12, 2010 - 15-second Public Service Announcement for radio stations. (MS Word file)
  
  
• March 9, 2010 - News Release: Cash For Appliances Rebate Program - Californians will Buy, Recycle, and Save on New Appliances
  
  
• Presentation About Website Launch, March 9, 2010. (PDF file, 14 pages, 212 kb)
  
  
• California Energy Commission Media Advisory, March 4, 2010.