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Reducing Home Energy at Christmas

By Solar energy | December 23, 2008

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Reducing Home Energy at Christmas

Basically, this blog is a journal about our quest for energy independence. We want to go solar but there’s a long and winding road to get there. We set our eyes on the goal and have made small but meaningful changes that greatly reduced our home energy bill.

However, I’m find that our home energy reduction plan falls by the wayside during the holiday season.

Since August my incentive for energy conservation remained on the front burner, so to speak. But with cold weather and holiday company arriving at our house, less focus goes to energy conservation.

I find myself more concerned with the people in my house being warm and having plenty of hot water available. So our thermostat got nudged up and the hot water heater timer switch turned off for a few weeks.

Keeping the thermostat at 68 degrees might work better on sunny days. And the timer on the water heater works well enough when we live by a more rigid schedule.

This month, houseguest comfort trumps energy conservation.

But I’ve decided not to feel badly about it since I did conserve lots of energy during the hot summer months. Today I choose to use the biggest portion of my “energy budget” for holiday times.

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