A typical U.S. family spends more than $1,600 a year on home utility bills, yet making some simple changes around the home can save money and make heating and cooling systems more efficient, according to World Energy Solutions, a publicly traded energy services company based in St. Petersburg, Fla.
By assessing facilities and hardware, World Energy Solutions ( symbol : WEGY ) helps companies lower their application consumption and upkeep costs and extend the life of their gear.
“Many of the energy-saving secrets we use for our commercial purchasers may also be applied to the home,” claims Benjamin Croxton, CEO of World Energy Solutions. “There are a lot of commonsense, low cost and no-cost paths to lower your home energy use as well as many new technologies that may be applied to your house’s energy-consuming systems.”
Here are some tips from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy on things homeowners can do to make their homes more energy efficient:
Turn down the temperature of your water heater to the warm setting.
Use energy-saving settings on refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines and clothes dryers.
Use compact fluorescent bulbs, which can save three-quarters of the electricity employed by incandescents. First to get replaced should be any 60-watt to 100-watt bulbs that are used several hours per day.
Have your cooling and heating systems serviced in the autumn and spring. Channel sealing can also improve the energy potency and complete performance of your furnace or central air conditioner.
Clean or replace furnace, air conditioner and heat-pump filters.
Assess your cooling and heating systems to establish if you need to replace or retrofit them to make them work more effectively to supply the same comfort, or better, with less energy.
“If your house’s central air-conditioning system is over ten years of age, a new up to the minute system can save you thirty p.c or more of your house’s air-conditioning expense,” claims George Hiker , air-conditioning expert with World Energy Solutions.
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