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Conservation Tips

Be smart about your home’s energy use. Here’s a room-by-room guide to help you identify ways you can reduce energy consumption.

Laundry Room
Kitchen
Living Areas
Bathroom

Laundry Room

  • Use only the necessary water level and temperature for the clothes you are washing.
  • Dry only full loads of clothes, and take advantage of the heated drum by drying several loads back-to-back.

Kitchen

  • Place lids tightly on pans to speed cooking time.
  • Keep oven door closed while cooking to prevent heat loss. With each opening, the oven loses about 20 percent of its heat.
  • Preheat your oven only if the recipe calls for it.
  • Use glass or ceramic pans in your oven. You can turn down the temperature about 25 degrees, and foods will cook just as quickly.
  • Use a stopper in the sink so water won’t run constantly while you’re washing dishes by hand.
  • Limit the “rinse hold” feature on your dishwasher. This setting uses up to 7 gallons of hot water for each use.
  • Only operate dishwashers when they are fully loaded.
  • Repair leaky faucets.

Living Areas

  • Warm air rises, so use registers to direct warm airflow across the floor.
  • Close off doors and vents in unused rooms to conserve heat within your home.
  • During the heating season, keep the draperies and shades on your south-facing windows open during the day to let sunlight in. Be sure to close draperies and shades at night to reduce the chill you may feel from cold windows.
  • Remove dust and lint from return air grills and warm air outlets.
  • Add extra blankets to your bed for more warmth.
  • Move furniture away from windows. It’s warmer to sit near an interior wall.
  • Close off heating vents (no more than 1/3 of them) in unused rooms.
  • Close fireplace damper when not in use.
  • Don’t open outside doors unless necessary.
  • If you don’t use a programmable thermostat, lower it at night while sleeping.

Bathroom

  • Install showerheads and faucets with water-flow restrictors.
  • Bathing uses the most hot water in the average household. You use 15 to 25 gallons of hot water for a bath but less than 10 gallons during a 5-minute shower.
  • Use a stopper in the sink so water won’t run constantly while shaving or brushing your teeth.
  • If you don’t use a programmable thermostat, lower it at night while sleeping.
  • Repair leaky faucets.

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