Have you ever received your energy bill and been in awe over how much energy you actually consume. Maybe you should look into energy savings ideas, and ways to conserve the electrical devices you use in your daily life, for Energy Savings. In this article you will learn the top 20 energy savings tips to help you conserve energy and save money. The first of these energy savings tips are related to heating.

1. When you aren’t home try leaving the heat off. If your not home you don’t need a warm house. Try getting an automatic thermostat with a timer to turn on just before you get home.

2. Close your window before turning your heating unit on, so that limited amounts of heat can escape.

3. Create energy savings by closing your curtains just before dusk. Heat is more likely to escape through your windows when it is dark and cooler outside.

4. Find other ways to stay warm; putting on a jumper instead of turning the heat up can really boost your energy savings.

5. Fix doors and windows that aren’t seal properly, air leaks = lost heat = lost money.

Now there are many ways to boost energy savings by reducing heat consumption, another crucial way is by conserving energy while doing your laundry.

6. Wash your clothing at 30 ° - 40 °, this will help cut back on your energy consumption, and most detergents are made to work best at that temperature anyway.

7. Don’t do half loads, doing half a load uses more then half the energy, so to use less energy and boost your energy savings, only do full loads.

8. When you really have to do a half load of laundry, create more energy savings by using the economic setting on your washer.

Along with energy savings from heating and energy savings from laundry, a lot of good energy saving techniques can be practiced in the kitchen. Good techniques like:

9. Putting a lid on saucepans on the stove can contain more heat, therefore cooking your food faster and not using as much energy.

10. Only put as much water as you need in the kettle, the less water the kettle has to boil the less energy it needs to use.

Stay tuned for part two of our energy savings article, as we cover more kitchen energy savings techniques, and other energy savings techniques for around your home.

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Welcome to part two in our article series, of energy savings. In part one we covered energy savings when it comes to heating your home and doing your laundry, and in part two we will focus on Energy Savings in the kitchen and in your living room/den. When in the kitchen there are many ways to save power such as using less water in your kettle, or using a lid on the saucepan, here are a few more ways to create energy savings.

11. Allow your food to cool before putting it in the refrigerator or freezer; it takes more energy to freeze warm food then cold food.

12. Never leave the refrigerator door open for any longer then it has to be opened.

Now the biggest electrical money horse when it comes to energy savings is your living room and/or den. Many things in your living room can save you money on your electric bill if properly conserved. Here are some energy savings tips for your living room and den.

13. Switch off your lights when you are not in that room, this is a major boost to energy savings.

14. When its sunny out, open your curtains and let some light in, you wont need your lights on and you can definitely create some energy savings.

15. Unplug your mobile phone charger when you are not charging it, or when your battery is full.

16. Using energy efficient light bulbs helps bring you energy savings.

17. If you are leaving your monitor for more then a few minutes, turn it off to save energy.

18. When your television is off its still using power on “Standby”, before you leave for work, unplug it to create energy savings.

19. Enable the power down feature on your computer, screensavers do not save energy, but if your computer automatically turns off after 10 min you will be saving energy.

20. Switch of your computer before you go to bed or go to work, this saves a lot of energy.

All of these great ways of creating energy savings for your home, not only is this helping the environment, but it is taking money out of the bill collectors pocket and putting it into yours.

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