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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008How to Read an Energy Guide Label In an earlier post, I shared about how to use a Kill-a-watt meter to determine home much energy your major home appliances are using. This handy electric meter told me my 1996, 18.2 cubit foot GE refrigerator cost me $137 per year to operate. Newer, energy-efficient refrigerators cost [...]
Home Energy Price Increase
Friday, September 19th, 2008Home Energy Price Increases My home utility bill came in January 2008, with a friendly little note saying that my power cooperative was, “…ringing in the new year in 2008 by reducing rates…by $0.0015 per kilowatt-hour beginning with bills rendered after January 1.” Nice! In May, my energy bill came with a little note attached [...]
How Much Energy Does Your Freezer Use?
Thursday, September 18th, 2008How Much Energy Does Your Freezer Use? Reducing energy consumption begins by knowing how much energy you consume in the first place. Having acquired our electric power monitor, a Kill-A-Watt meter, we are learning where the high-energy consumers are in our home. First, we plugged our refrigerator into the monitor. The results were posted Tuesday, [...]
How Our Simple Home Solar Energy Project Began
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Image via Wikipedia How Our Simple Home Solar Energy Project Began Our simple home solar journey began with keen understanding that governments are inept at finding solutions. People create solutions. So we asked ourselves, what can one ordinary couple do? We are not among America’s wealthy. We live on a budget which tightens with the [...]
Home Energy Efficiency and Major Appliances
Monday, September 15th, 2008Image via Wikipedia Home Energy Efficiency and Major Appliances Eventually, I want a net ZEH , a house that produces as much energy as it uses. We are taking the small steps toward that end goal. Our initial goal is to reduce our energy consumption by 25%. For us that means reducing energy use to [...]
How to Measure Your Home Appliance Energy Consumption
Friday, September 12th, 2008A Kill-A-Watt Meter Measures Your Home Appliance Energy Consumption Have you ever wondered if you should replace that old refrigerator for a more energy efficient model? Now you can find out which of your home appliances are worth keeping and which should be replaced. We bought this handy gadget, an electricity usage monitor, which monitors [...]
How to Have Hot Water and a Lower Energy Bill
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Time to Get Your Energy Bill Out of Hot Water! Heating water for your home accounts for roughly 25 percent of your home energy consumption. Since we are trying to reduce our home energy usage by 25 percent, we clearly need to do something about our hot water. I will make a small confession here. [...]
Control Your Home Energy Consumption
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Reduce Energy Consumption with a Digital Thermostat A quick, low cost adjustment to help reduce your home energy bill is the installation of a digital thermostat that can be pre-programmed. Depending on the model you purchase, thermostats can be programmed to different temperatures for different times of the day or week. If everyone is away [...]
Home Energy Use Measured in Kilowatt-Hours
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008How Many Kilowatt-Hours Does Your Home Use? Making an informed choice about solar home energy requires knowing how many kilowatt-hours your home uses. Until the recent concern with our environment and energy prices, many have never paid much attention to how many kilowatt-hours their home uses. What is a kilowatt-hour? Electric utility companies measure your [...]
Personal Home Energy Audit
Monday, September 8th, 2008Our Personal Home Energy Audit Results Reducing your home energy usage reduces the cost of any home solar energy system. The less energy you waste, the less your solar energy investment will be. Along with practicing good conservation habits, finding and eliminating the invisible energy wasters saves you money. Find where your home loses energy [...]
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