Some More Energy Saving Tips from Enigin
The cost of electricity and power is increasing steadily and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
What can you do to combat these price rises, which is evermore vital in the current financial climate?
Of course if you are in business or responsible for an organisation spending thousands on your utility bill, your best bet would be to contact us at Enigin and we can help you to save money and energy.
But how about when we are at home, we too face rising costs. Like we have all being doing in the past 18 months or so we have reduced our cost of living.
Here are some tips gleaned from the web that claim to save you up to 72% on your utility bills, but how?
By taking some simple steps .
Reduce Consumption
Change all your light bulbs from incandescent to energy efficient fluorescent bulbs.
If you have a second freezer in your garage or utility room consider whether you really need it. Can you use just the one freezer?
Use fans rather than your air conditioner.
Use space heating to heat only the room you are in as opposed to the entire house.
Use a clothes line or laundry rack instead of an electric dryer.
Replace Inefficient Appliances
If your refrigerator is over eight years old or more, then replace it with a newer, energy efficient one.
The same applies for other appliances, although some will claim this doesn’t make sense as to will have to spend money, often a lot of money, to save money? Consider the detail, A initial expenditure of £1,000 today, could well have a lifetime calculated value of more than £3,250 in energy savings.
Generate Your Own Electricity
There are “do it yourself” solar and wind generation products available for self install. Some cost just a few hundred pounds.
Using these do it yourself products will enable you to reduce your electric bill because now you are making your own power. Although you will not be able to fully eliminate all your power it provide savings on your current utility bill.
If there is a feed-in tariff in your area you can even feed any extra power you have from time to time back to the utility company and get paid by them!