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Six Easy Steps to Save Energy at Home

Do you want to trim down your electricity bills at home? There are several alternate ways to save energy at home. In this post, I listed a few of the alternative ways in the past months. Read on if you want to try them. 1) Cleaning or replacing the filters of air-conditioner units at least once a month. This minimizes electricity consumption because the unit can produce a free flow of cold air to the room inhibiting any extra force input from the appliance hence requiring lesser energy. Less energy input means lesser electricity consumption. 2) Lowering the thermostat on your water heater to 120 is also helpful. More so, the heaters must be shut off whenever you will be away for quite some time. It does not only conserve energy, it keeps your house safe from short circuits while you are away. 3) Turning off the lights when nobody is using. Use only lights when necessary. Refrigerators may be set at a temperature of 36 to 38 degrees and the freezer at 0 to 5. These are simpl