These are my tips that will help you save money on your energy bill. By using these tips, you could save hundreds of dollars in electricity costs.
Replace every incandescent bulb in your house with a compact fluorescent light (CFL).
Compact fluorescent lights (CFL) only use 1/25th of the energy required to illuminate a standard incandescent bulb. They also produce much brighter light. And best of all they last a lot longer.
Let's say you have a lamp that is used at least 6 hours per day with a 100 watt incandescent light bulb in it. You also have a lamp with a 27 watt CFL, which is the 100 watt equivalent. The 100 watt incandescent will have an annual energy cost of $21.90 at $.10 per KW-hour. The CFL only costs $5.91, a quarter of the cost of the incandescent. That's just with one lamp, imagine how much you could save if you replaced all the bulbs in your home with a CFL. And since CFL's can last over four years, it's easy to make back the investment.
Instead of a bath, take a shower.
This should come as no surprise that you use far less water by taking a shower as compared to taking a bath. Bath's consist of a lot of water that is wasted because the extra volume of water isn't really helping you get any cleaner.
Chances are you use hot water when you hop in the tub. Most hot water heaters are either gas or electric. When you use a large volume of hot water, your hot water heater has to work harder and longer to heat all the cold water that is refilling it while the hot water is in use. Since showers typically use around 20% of the water that a bath does, the amount of time the hot water heater has to work to catch up is drastically reduced. This means a lower cost on your gas/electric bill.
Keep your home at a moderate temperature year round.
In the winter, set your thermostat lower and set it higher in the summer. Try to avoid constantly adjusting your temperature setting. Open windows or close doors to help maintain a constant temperature range.
Thermostats are very sensitive, and bumping it up or down just a couple of degrees can cost you a lot of money. Think about it, if you have central heating and air, moving the thermostat from say 75 to 70 in the summer means that the whole cooling system has to be activated to cool the house five degrees which is a huge energy draw. Instead of constantly adjusting the temperature, try opening or closing a window to either start a draft of air or to remove one. If you aren't using a room, consider closing the vent in that room and the door. There's no sense in heating or cooling a room you aren't going to be using or using very little.
Those are the tips that I personally live by, and they have saved me a lot of money in energy costs. I hope that you will sincerely give them a try to see if they will work as well for you as they did for me. In an age where energy resources are becoming fewer and energy costs are rising, it is comforting to know that even the little things that we do can make a huge difference in not just how much money we spend, but our impact on the world around us.
Of course, these tips are just the beginning. There are ways of completely removing yourself from energy costs forever, and they really do work, thanks to the efforts of professionals who have developed them over many years of experimenting.
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