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1. Wash Away the Wattage Use
One key to saving energy is to load the washer, dryer and dishwasher completely before running the appliances. By washing your clothes in cold water, you can see a 50-75% saving in energy use. Clean the dryer’s lint basket before loading the next laundry load. Many dryers now have an auto-sensing drying setting that will turn the unit off when the clothes are dry.
2. Adjusting Water Temperature to Save Turn the water heater temperature to the middle setting at around 120° in order to keep the unit from wasting electricity. By wrapping the hot water piping with insulation, you’ll make you system efficient. Just these simple steps can save you 10% on heating costs.
3. Energy Saving Investments that Pay Energy Star® rated appliances use 20-50% less energy than standard models. The savings are even greater when compared to the antique units some of us have managed to keep running for 20-30 years. When you consider the new Whirlpool® Duet front load washers use 33% of the water that standard washers use and can do three times as many clothes per load, you can quickly see how the savings will add.
4. Wash and dry only full loads of garments
Use cold water as much as possible (save 2 to 4 percent on your energy costs). This additionally saves time when you plan ahead and wash a full load of your items. Who wants to fold their stuff more than necessary?
5. Hot Water Blues
Nothing feels better than a hot shower in the morning, but extended time using all of that hot water will cost you. Limit shower times and the temperature that you use and you’ll see a dramatic savings in the electric hot water heater energy cost. Showers and laundry can easily account for 60-75% of the water heating costs. An inexpensive way to save is to add a low flow shower head. This limits the amount of water coming out of the shower head.