AEP Energy and Duke Energy Retail are each currently conducting a sweepstakes offering free electricity for a year

AEP Energy's sweepstakes offers the winner a Visa pre-paid gift card in the amount of $1,500. This amount represents an average residential household’s annual cost of electricity.

See AEP's site for more

Duke Energy Retail's sweepstakes offers four winners a $2,100 Visa prepaid card, representing the value of free electricity for a year. See Duke Energy Retail site

In promoting the sweepstakes, Duke Energy Retail says that it can help Dayton area residents save as much as $250 per year on the supply portion of their electric bills