Energy Savings Tips: Hot Showers

Energy Savings Tips: Hot Showers

Here are ways to save energy on hot showers (sorry, showering with a friend doesn't count). These money-saving ideas can help you lower your energy bill by reducing energy consumption in your house or apartment.

You can also help to reduce the demand of electricity at peak electrical demand times - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. These energy saving tips below may help cut down on the amount of energy you use and trim your household energy costs, while lowering peak demand on your electricity utility company.

Hot Showers
* Some say shower with a friend to save energy. That probably is not the best way to save energy as you may end up taking longer showers instead of shorter showers. If you are faced with this decision, try using a cold shower.
* Take shorter showers, no longer than five-minutes.
* During your shower, you can turn off the water as you shampoo your hair or lather your body, then turn the water back on to rinse off.
* Fix leaky faucets. One drop of hot water per second can waste 2500 gallons per year. If just 1% of us repaired a leaky hot water faucet, the savings would add up to 25 million gallons of water and enough natural gas savings to heat 800 homes all winter long.

Energy Savings Tips: Wood Stoves And Fireplaces

Energy Savings Tips: Wood Stoves And Fireplaces

Here are ways to save energy on wood stoves and fireplaces (sorry, that mountain lodge ski trip doesn't count). These money-saving ideas can help you lower your energy bill by reducing energy consumption in your house or apartment.

You can also help to reduce the demand of electricity at peak electrical demand times - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. These energy saving tips below may help cut down on the amount of energy you use and trim your household energy costs, while lowering peak demand on your electricity utility company.


Wood Stoves And Fireplaces
It is said the wood fireplaces give you energy three times. Once when you cut down the tree, once when you stack the wood and once when you burn it.

* Wood-burning fireplaces look great, can be romantic and feel warm by the fire. Fireplaces can actually suck the heat in your home up and out the chimney (umm, heat rises, you know). Glass doors improve the situation only slightly.
* Wood or pellet-burning stoves provide more heat because they're not tucked away in the wall and less heat escapes up the flue. But unless you get your fuel free, you'll end up paying more to heat your home.
* There is no truth to the myth that feeding your father-in-law beer, cabbage and bean burrito's is a cost effective alternative to heating your home.