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5 Ways to Improve the Energy Efficiency of Your Home

Reviewed By Alfred Poindexter

Using Less Energy Helps Lower Your Home Energy Bills

No matter the size of your home, everyone wants to pay less on their electricity bills. Even with a low fixed rate for a long contract, you could have a large bill if you ignore your home energy usage. By introducing a few helpful energy efficiency tips into your daily routine, you can better manage how your home uses energy. This can lead to smaller energy bills even during the hottest summers and coldest winters.

We’ve organized our energy efficiency tips into five primary categories. We recommend completing one section at a time instead of tackling them all at once. After you’ve experienced the positive effects of that section, you can start on another one. The goal is to help you reduce your energy usage while keeping everyone in your home comfortable.

Your HVAC

Let’s start with the big one: the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system for your home. On average, about half of your monthly energy bill usage comes from this single source. Hence, if you want to create an energy efficient home, you must start here.

In the Kitchen

You use more energy cooking in your kitchen than you think, especially in the summer. The more you use the stove and oven, the hotter your home becomes, and the more your air conditioner runs. By introducing energy efficiency to your kitchen, you can enjoy whipping up your favorite culinary creations while maintaining your energy usage.

Doing Chores

No one likes using energy to do chores, but it’s essential to find ways where you can incorporate energy efficiency tactics to complete them.

Home Maintenance

Most of these tips involve changing your habits and routines to help improve your home’s energy efficiency and lower your electricity bills. With this section, we introduce a bit of spending. While it can feel counterintuitive to ask you to spend money to save money, the return on investment you’ll experience can be significant.

General Suggestions for Increased Energy Efficiency

Here are your tried-and-true suggestions for incremental yet important energy efficiency upgrades. They might seem small, but the effects are cumulative and substantial.

Energy efficiency in the home isn’t about going green or helping the environment – though those are nice side effects. It’s about helping your home use energy with greater effectiveness. It’s easier to lower your energy usage and create a smaller energy bill.

And isn’t that what we all want to see each month?

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