Three Largest Energy Guzzling Appliances And How to Cut Cost On Them

My Mrs. is a Masters in ecology, she has many subscription to green energy, clean energy magazines. She always reminds me to innovate ways to cut costs on our daily energy usage. Recently I came across a few tips on saving energy on household appliances supplied in mailer from our utility company FPL.

I had already written three articles related to energy usage How To Save Money by saving water, How I save some money on Earth day and How to save on Gas prices. This is my another green attempt to remind all our readers on the relative ease with which you can control energy usage to generate maximum save.

I will only talk about 3 most energy-consuming appliances in your home if you concentrate on controlling energy usage on these three things, you can save up to 40% of your energy bill. This is what I called efficient and most productive way to derive maximum result.

Oh, certainly you use energy-efficient bulb, but, did you ever calculate how much you could save by using an energy-efficient bulb in one year? Let me tell you it’s minuscule, rather, I will encourage you to do whatever you can to save the planet and save your money. But when you are occupied and only can do a few things only, let’s just stick to these three energy guzzlers only.

What are then, the three most energy-consuming appliances

1. HVAC : Heating Ventilation and Air conditioning unit. 40% – 50% of your energy bill is contributed by this unit alone. Considering average annual energy bill per household of $1,200  – $2,000 per year, this unit alone costs $480 – $1000 per year. You can save on HVAC in following ways

2. Water Heater: Second most energy-consuming appliance in your home . Many states have option to run your water heater on gas, which is separate from electric company. Gas always is cheaper comparatively, opt for heater with your local gas company if you have option and not taking it from utility company. I do not have this option as FPL has the monopoly in this area in S. Florida and there is no gas company offering service here.

3. Refrigerator: This is third most energy-consuming appliance in your home. It consumes 5% of your energy bill. It periodically cycles itself, drawing up energy to keep temperature constant. Furthermore, this energy consumption can be greatly increased if the refrigerator is operating with one or more faulty parts. It would be a good idea to update any outdated parts in this appliance for greater energy efficiency.

To make maximum dent to your energy bill with minimum effort, do follow the tips provided above. Saying this, we started actively pursuing to implement the above suggestion our self. I will keep on updating in future posts on the progress, and the saves in energy bill we realized. Why don’t you start doing something like this?