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A characteristic U.S. Family spends more than $1,600 a year on home power and water bills, yet making some easy changes round the home can economize and make heating and cooling systems more effective, according to World Energy Solutions, a public traded energy services company based in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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“Many of the energy-saving methods we use for our commercial consumers can also be applied to the home,” announces Benjamin Croxton, CEO of World Energy Solutions. “There are plenty of common sense, inexpensive and no-cost methods to lower your house energy use as well as many new technologies that may be applied to your house’s energy-consuming systems.”
Here are a few tips from the North American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy on things house owners can do to make their houses more energy efficient :
* Turn down the temperature of your water heater to the warm setting.
* Use energy-saving settings on chillers, dishwashers, washing machines and garments dryers.
* Use compact fluorescent bulbs, which can save three-quarters of the electricity utilized by incandescents. First to get replaced should be any 60-watt to 100-watt bulbs that are used a few hours per day.
* Have your heating and cooling systems serviced in the fall and spring. Duct sealing can also improve the energy efficiency and overall performance of your furnace or central air conditioner.
* Clean or replace furnace, air conditioner and heat-pump filters.
* appraise your cooling and heating systems to figure out if you must replace or retrofit them to make them work more effectively to supply the same comfort, or better, with less energy.
“If your home’s central air-conditioning system is over 10 years old, a new state-of-the-art system can save you 30 percent or more of your home’s air-conditioning expense,” says George Walker, air-conditioning expert with World Energy Solutions.
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