With record setting heat continuing to pound the area, utility bills are on the rise, and local businesses owners and executives are keenly aware of the costs of cooling their operations. "In the summertime, particularly when it is this hot, our electric bill for the hospital and the medical arts building can run as much as $100,000 per month," said Bob Bigley, CEO of East Georgia Regional Hospital in Statesboro. "We have a computerized energy management system which is always in operation, so we are trying to save as much energy as we possibly can, but it is very difficult to do that in a hospital setting.