Cut Your Electric Bills

If you use a laptop, keep the charger unplugged because even when you are not using it its constantly pulling electricty. On that line…any chargers you have, keep them unplugged. TV’s are big consumers too. Dont run your dryer in the day, try to run it later in the evening. Anything that doesn’t need to be plugged in, just unplug it, it really does help
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Beside A/C the domestic hot water heater is a major load. Occasional clothes dryer. Occasional kitchen oven. All others are minor, but accumulative. Utilities will put optional demand limiters on A/C and on domestic water heaters and give you some credit.

Raise the setting on your thermostat; you will get used to it. Mine is at 78F. Use the ceiling fans. And lower the thermostat during the heating season. I use 70F.
Minimize hot water use in showers, laundry. You can hang your clothes outside to dry.
Cook less. Minimize water in cooking. Use the smaller appliances instead of the large oven.
Plant shade trees. See that you have adequate ceiling insulation – a minimum of 9 inches of aluminum foil – faced batts, 12 inches in cold climate. You should already have a vapor barrier between the ceiling sheet rock and the ceiling joists so put the foil on top. See that the attic space is properly ventilated – it can get extremely hot in the summer.
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It is not kilowatts that you want to minimize. It is kilowatt-hours. Kilowatts is a measure of power, and kilowatt-hours is the measure of energy. The energy is the power multiplied by the time is is being consumed. You pay for energy, not power. What’s the difference?

An electric oven consumes a lot of power when it is on, but it is not on very often. Therefore, it consumes fewer kilowatt-hours than an old refrigerator which has lower power consumption but is working continuously. In fact, getting an energy efficient refrigerator is far more important than almost any other device (with the exception of air conditioning if you life in a very hot place like Phoenix).
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Refrigerator
Electric Stove
Electric Dryer
Electric Hot water heater
Electric heat

Hair dryers
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