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Insulation, you could consider installing cavity wall insulation or roof insulation. 25 – 40% of heat is lost through the walls and 25% through the roof. Installing both will signifigantly reduce your annual heating and air con bills and you should beable to recoup the cost within 1 to 3 years. This will save about 2-3 tonnes of Co2 per year. The cost is about $750, but grants are available, some up to 1% of the cost.
The average household wastes $76 in stand-by a year, turn your appliances off when not in use.
Reduce your heating thermostat by 1 degree can reduce your heating bills by 10% per year. Reduce your hot water tank thermostat to 50 degrees, each 5.5 degree reduces you hot water heating cost by 13%. Put a thick insulation jacket on your hot water tank (less than $20), this prevents heat loss from your tank and can save about $20 a year in hot water costs.
Also check out all the tips at this page which are free;
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There are many ways to save on your energy bill. Changing your “regular” light bulbs to the coil type (energy star) bulbs are actually a big help. A regular 75 watt bulb then only takes 26watts to run. They make them in two colors, soft white – a yellowish color like many “regular bulbs” and daylight – more of a white light. The daylight bulbs are very useful in darker rooms with less windows, kitchens, and bathrooms.
On the packages it says that you can save $— per year, when in reality you can see the savings on the first full months bill. (Personal experience)
You can make sure all of your windows are double paned. If you want to spend more money up front, get energy star appliances (large and small).
You can also make sure that if something besides a television isn’t in use that it is unplugged. You can re-weatherize your home, such as door moldings etc…
If the climate is mild then you can open doors and windows to let fresh air in…best of all, the fresh air is FREE.
You can switch your heating and cooling to geothermal, it normally costs from $9-17,0 to do this, so it may not be practical, but will pay for itself within 10 years.
Also, having trees shading your home will help with the cooling costs!
There are many tips on keeping your money in your pocket on websites addressing the global warming issues.
Not all of these ideas are practical for everyone or possible at once, but every little change you make, makes a difference. Start small if you have to, I did.
6 months ago (I have the funding) I did most all of these changes, and my electric bill went from and average of $6 to my last bill being $122, which my average since the changes was $160.
I hope this was helpful!
Some I didn’t see mentioned yet: they have the “Energy Saver” appliances that save power and money on your bill each month and help the environment. They have a little Energy Saver logo on them when you look at the ads each week, and when you look at them in the stores. They are an extra $1 or so per appliance, but you will make back the cost by cheaper utility bills. We bought our 1 year old house with all the appliances and they are 20 to 50 years old and we are in the process of getting all Energy Saver appliances so are hoping our utility bills will be better and we will be improving the environment too!
You are supposed to help improve your AC/heat bill if you change the filter every month. We try to but usually change it every every other month or so, but it’s a good goal.
I saw it mentioned but one of the biggest improvements for us was keeping the lights off when not in the room. I made it one of the kids’ chores and it made a noticeable difference in our monthly utility bill. Good luck!
Turn off your computer and go to bed.
turn off lights in rooms your not in, unplug appliances your not using at the time such as toasters, microwaves, coffee machine, computers, dont keep water running, recycle. . .
Use motion sensors to turn on the lights in a room.
If nobody’s in the room the lights will go out. Very effective.
Also buy a Tankless water heater to get hot water instantly and not have to reheat over and over.
In the summer, instead of turning on the A/C just do what I do and strip down to your underwear and wrap wet towels around your wrists, you won’t feel so hot.
1. use compact flourescent lightbulbs (cfls)
2. buy energy star products
3. open cans by hand instead of electric canopeners
Some ways could be
1) Switch to CFL bulbs. They consume significantly less power
2) Go in for solar heaters to warmup the water. Will work esp in areas which get plenty of sunlight
3) Design houses which permit a lot of natural light to come in
4) Use central air cooling (Air coolers with water) rather than A/Cs for most of the time of the day. This will no work in humid areas
5) Switch off lights and fans whenever you leave the room
6) These days you get gadgets which claim to reduce electrical consumption by as mush as 30%. I haven’t tried one, so can’t confirm this. But the rest of the things are tried and tested.
Use low voltage bulbs. use water heaters only when necessary. keep all gadgets switched off and on only if necessary. Power savers definately show on electricity bills!
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If you not using it ,switch it off.You got to start some where.
Why not at the switch
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Sounds like you got great advice!
Also turning on and off lights is really bad, of you are going to be back into the room just leave it on. It is like starting your car, turn it off just to start it again.
Dishwashers even those that are energy officiant still can not be better then washing by hand! And it gives the kids a chore to do!
If you do not have a big room running a vacuum is not needed just sweep it or get a cordless.
Of course I save everything to reuse it. But not everyone has the space to do this, including us lol!
We are in Oregon. But our part of Oregon needs help!! We our the county the cities forget about….. some of us who live here try though.
Upgrade to more efficient appliances.
Insulate and seal air leaks.
Use a power strip to turn appliances that draw power when they’re off (like your computer and peripherals) all the way off.
www.greenpeace.org.au will show you all the answers.
Sign up and become an online activist, it’s free… and it displays a lot of ways and strategies on how to save power in your house.
Hope this helps.
Get those new energy saving COIL-type light bulbs… they are rather expensive but last 3 years or more—also lower the wattage…. you don’t need 1 watt bulbs in all your lamps and light fixtures… go down to 60 watt bulbs… Put plastic on the INSIDE of all your windows in the winter—Eliminates cold drafts–(I have to do this on all MY windows–works GREAT)…lower the thermostat in the winter to 68 degrees–wear a sweater…. Shower with your spouse—uses less hot water….limit teens to 10 minutes in the shower EACH… and laundry should be done AFTER MIDNIGHT…. Believe it or not—electricity costs less between Midnight and 7AM….this year I started to do my laundry after midnight and my electric bill is down to $102 a month as compared to $175 for the same period last year…. I saved a LOT on my electric HEAT this winter as well…. Last year costs over $2 per months to heat and use other electricity in the house… this year no bills higher then $124 all winter long. Turn off lights when you leave a room—-ESPECIALLY the teenagers… for some reason they would have the lights on 24 hours a day…. do not warm up leftovers in the oven—use the microwave….
The little things help. Like turning the lights or the air conditioner or whatever electrical appliances off, when you’re not using them. If you keep that up, in the long run, you’ll save a lot of power/energy.