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When it comes to your water heater it isn’t just about efficiency, it is also about safety. That is why we recommend setting your water heater to 120 degrees. At 130 degrees or hotter, it can take mere seconds for someone to burn. At 120 degrees it takes over 5 minutes. For most water heaters, 120 degrees is the triangle on your knob.
Let’s start with light bulbs, since they
Bulbs provided through the program – twist, a-line, bathroom globe, indoor flood light. Don’t do outdoor lights, don’t have dimmable or three-way. We provide the bulbs most often used in Minnesota households. CFLs have the single quickest payback of any energy investment, but your payback will be even faster since we’re going to give you all the bulbs you need.
In 2010, teach your kids to fight phantom load. This is the year.
Phantom load is like a leaky faucet, even when something is not in use it is using energy and costing you money. A solution to this is to use a power strip, especially for your TV areas and computer. Make sure to put the power strip somewhere that is easy to reach so that you will use it consistently.
Energy Center of Wisconsin installed occupancy sensors, found that 75% of the time that our desktops are on there is NO ONE IN THE ROOMSet HARD DRIVE to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivityCan save up to $30 a year