If your household use lots of devices turning on at various times of the day (and night), it can get quite hard to figure out what is really giving you high electric bills. In our experience, it hardly means giving up your favorite activities or becoming less comfortable. Recall from Read more…
In the article Five Ways to Reduce Energy Bills, we mentioned that recurring use as one of the background loads to your electricity or energy bill. Your recurring load comes from devices that come on at the same time every day. In the background, they are easy to forget about Read more…
Sometimes, we hear people complain about unfair or wrong electricity pricing. They may say something like, “there is no way I used twice as much electricity though my bill doubled.” Well, they are almost always right. (Occasionally, we see some device start malfunctioning that is actually using more electricity.) However, Read more…
In part one of this two-part series, we covered smaller things you can do on your own in part 1 of this series on reducing inefficient space heating. Scan through that list first if you haven’t. Now we will talk about things you can do that involves a professional. If Read more…
We’ve covered how to reduce summer bills in a two-part series. For winter, we’ve also covered expensive resistive electric heating. This is part 1 of a two-part series about cutting winter bills by looking at how to reduce inefficient space heating. In this article, we first cover things you can Read more…
One of the most common frustrations we hear from people are those unusually high summer energy bills or winter bills that just blows your budget for the month. Most people in America go through hot summers or cold winters, and as we mentioned before, people can feel the difference between Read more…
As a reminder, refrigeration is part of “always on” or idle load, one of the five ways to lower energy bills. We have a 3-part series on reducing electric idle load outside of refrigeration costs. Most of the time, we recommend installing timers or smart plugs to limit this waste Read more…
This article is part of a collection of articles devoted to cutting utility bills, including cheaper electric and gas bills. We cover recommendations based on five ways to cut your energy bills. This is part 3 on handling a high electric idle load. Read part 1 and part 2 if Read more…
This article is part of a collection of articles devoted to cutting utility bills, including cheaper electric and gas bills. We cover recommendations for different types of high utility bills. As always, we first look at the easiest fixes with the lowest upfront costs for energy conservation. This is part Read more…
This article is part of a collection of articles devoted to cutting utility bills, including cheaper electric and gas bills. We cover recommendations for different types of high utility bills. FYI, we explain things in terms of five our categories of energy use. As always, we first look at the easiest Read more…