Category: Residential

Wash your clothes in cold water. Water heating constitutes up to 90% of the energy consumption of washing machines. Cold water wash can save you over $175 a year.

Read the owner’s manual and take advantage of any energy-saving features that may be built into your electronics. For example setting your television’s brightness on “home mode” uses about 25%… Read more

Only buy what you need and will use. Think twice about adding that wine chiller or lava lamp.

Look for the ENERGY STAR® symbol when buying new electronics. Energy efficient products will use less power overall, and often use less wasteful standby power.

You can also consider using a watt meter to help determine which products use the most standby power. A watt meter is a simple device that you plug it into… Read more