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How can it be that in this age of energy efficient appliances and power saving devices that you use could be outright wasting energy and not even be aware? Could there really be a silent and mysterious culprit that is wasting energy and draining money from your pocket?
The following is a list of clues that you are wasting energy and is the result of lessons learned from living off the grid with an independent solar system for 15 years.
*Energy Wasting Clue #1: The device has a remote.
Guilty devices-TV, VCR, stereo, garage door opener, satellite dish
*Energy Wasting Clue #2:The device has a light or lighted display.
Guilty devices-LCD clock, microwave with LCD, power strip, computer, speakers and peripherals, modem, cable box, desk phones
*Energy Wasting Clue #3: The device is used for charging other devices.
Guilty devices-chargers for batteries, laptop, cell phone, ipod, cordless, phone
*Energy Wasting Clue #4: The device has a timer, sensor or thermostat.
Guilty devices- sprinkler system, alarm system, a/c and heat thermostat, space heater
*Energy Wasting Clue #5: The device runs all the time.
Guilty devices-router, refrigerator, fish tank and pool filtration system, water heater, water fountain, fan
*Energy Wasting Clue #6: The device has a wall transformer.
Guilty devices-laptops, desk phones, chargers, lamps, photo printer
The culprit is convenience. It comes at a cost and it amounts to 5-10% of the electrical energy use by American households. A Phantom Load is the draw of electricity when a device is tuned off. Yes, even though the device is powered off it will still draw electricity in the standby mode unless it is unplugged. This ready-state is necessary for these devices to be convenient and ready for use.
What can you do?
*Energy Saving Solution #1- Un-plug electric devices when not in use.
*Energy Saving Solution #2- Plug devices into a power strip and turn off the power strip when the devices are not in use, when you are away from home or sleeping
*Energy Saving Solution #3- Switch to Energy Star appliances for those devices that are impractical to unplug.
Now you know what to do if you want to save 5-10% on your home energy bill. This simply change will work well for everyone so please share this energy saving tip with a friend.
>Do you know if you get wholesale natural gas or wholesale electricity for your home or small business?
>Do you know what deregulation is and if it affects your energy bills?
>Is your electricity company asking you what you want to pay for their service?
>Do you know how to turn your energy bill into a valuable asset that improves your bottom line?
>What one thing can you do to instantly start saving energy and saving money?
>Are you in control of what you pay for electricity?
>Can you control your savings at home while on vacation or on a business trip?
>Do you know when to use electricity and save money?
>Do you know the main question to ask about sustainability and renewable green energy?
A quotient in math is a result obtained from division. An intelligence quotient assesses knowledge. Answering No to even one of the above energy savings quotient questions points out the bit of knowledge that could leave you behind the trend toward as much energy and money savings as possible.
Technological innovations have brought some fine products to you for saving energy and saving money. Powers savers and energy management devices are very effective. By installing a power saver your energy system is optimized and wasting electricity is reduced. A programmable thermostat is one of the efficient ways to optimize environmental control automatically by preset efficient temperature cycles. Some products bring the ability to remotely monitor and adjustment your home or business energy systems. This is valuable away from home, during business off-hours or while on vacation or for managing a vacation home. For instance adjusting the thermostat to prevent freezing temperature inside the building during an unexpected winter storm. The cost of electricity fluctuates during the day and season to season. An energy monitor will give you this real time information to help you decide when to do heavy energy demand activities like laundry and when to be conserving electricity which is the same as saving money.
Buying wholesale natural gas and wholesale electricity is a new option for homes and smaller businesses in a growing number of areas. Deregulation laws have lead to the option for more people to pay less and save more. You have may have the choice and do not know it. Wholesale prices are the best rates possible. The wholesale prices are very responsive to the market and will varying month to month. For fixed budgets, even though the wholesale savings are greater, it is more important to have set energy costs to manage the household or business. In this case getting the lowest cost retail energy is imperative to help your bottom line.
One innovative company leading in the industry, has a unique online auction where electricity providers bid for your business. It is quick and easy to sign up. You get live quotes and watch them compete to get your business. . You can consider your energy bill an asset. You sell the opportunity to provide your electricity at the lowest cost for one year to the lowest bidding provider.
Getting an energy audit or doing one yourself by going room to room in your home or business will reveal where you are wasting electricity and where you can do more to conserve electricity. Get a list of energy saving tips and get started on implementing it. There are many things you can do that are low to no cost to you.
Living sustainably is an important aspect to using renewable green energy. Stop wasting energy. Reduce use and pollutants. Choose ways to producing energy to offset consumption such as installing a solar or wind power generating system. Optimize your cars gasoline usage and mileage.
Trends are your friend. The time is now to find an energy saving and cost saving trend and get on it.
For help with improving your energy quotient, saving energy, saving money obtaining products and services mentioned above contact Wholesale Energy Consultants at
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There is no time like now to do your part by doing something green. As a whole the dependence upon fossil fuel based energy could potentially be disastrous. Using solar and other green sources of energy are part of the solution. Renewable energy is about re-newing not disposing. “Re-cycle, Re-think, Re-use.” It is about producing not consuming. It is about sustainability. What exactly is sustainability?
The typical the modern lifestyle is about consumption– buy, eat, use and then dispose. For instance, on little tropical islands, a common perception “boaters,” is that they take ice and leave garbage. Ice is a premium commodity on an island and garbage is a real problem to manage. Is this a sustainable relationship?
Going green and living sustainably is about giving back i.e. conserving electricity vs. wasting electricity. It is about generating renewable green energy and conserving electricity so there is some to share. In general it is a bit unreasonable to think that the modern day lifestyle is sustainable with renewable green energy when it is evident that fossil fuel cannot even sustain it. Einstein said that insanity was doing the same thing and expecting different results.
Every action taken toward green living and sustainability is a step in the right direction. Everyone doing their share would collectively lead to a remarkable change in the precarious out of balance way things are currently. It is necessary for everyone to follow this guideline, “Think Globally, Act Locally” –starting now!
A disposable society pollutes its resources. A consumptive society eats itself from the inside out because it is not replenishing and is one in which the people feel anxious, unsatisfied and “spent”. A convenient society is efficient with time yet equates to wasting energy. Here the people are busy and stressed from being on the “treadmill” . Green energy like solar power can only sustain a balanced lifestyle. This balance must occur on a independently on a micro level first like in a family or on an island in order to effect results on a global level, interdependently as a community or society. This contributes to a sense of well-being. With the extremes of the current population, level of mobility and technological gadgetry, a correction is long over due. What if everyone started to save at home and every house became a generator of power rather than a consumer of power? Do you see how this is more sustainable?
To be sustainable, ask your self what you want to sustain? A consumptive lifestyle wasting energy or productive lifestyle that is renewable. Your answer will help you know the correct choices to make. In order to change, a change must occur. Change is inevitable. Every action and choice you make sustains something. Efficiency starts with you. Saving energy is in your hands.
The simplest ways to save power involve you and how you use your energy resources. One quick and easy way to save on your energy bill without effort, is by installing a power saver. A power saver is a relatively low cost device that works with your electrical system to improve its performance and efficiency.
Apparently, there are inherent inefficiencies within an electrical system. In other words, they are wasting energy and have room for improvement. There are two types of electrical systems—single-phase and three-phase. One is primarily for residential use and the other for commercial electricity. A power saver will stop wasting energy, reduce actual energy usage and produce a cost savings for both systems.
There are numerous devices available that appear to be similar. The latest technology in power savers installs on the neutral side of your electrical box. Only one device offers this patented technology, the VCG unit available through a progressive wholesale energy brokering and energy saving company Other devices hook up to the “hot” side meaning they use electricity to do the job of saving energy.
Immediately after being installed, the VCG1 reduces the actual energy usage. It collects excess electricity that exists as “noise” in the system and feeds it back into the electrical circuit to save energy. The bottom line is that without it your system it wasting energy.
Any savings in energy use will be reflected in a savings on your electricity bill. Installation is simple but precise and safety must be kept in mind, so it needs to be done by a qualified electrician.
Further, this power saver device cleans and purifies the neutral side reusing and recycling energy that would otherwise be wasted. The VCG unit does not draw power and there are no lights, switches, capacitors, resistors, circuit boards or other electronic components to wear out. There is no risk to you when you buy from the national distributor because of the 90 day trial period with a 100% money back guarantee if it fails to perform.
There are devices that appear similar but none work exactly this way with the predictable results. Savings for single-phase systems is an average of 18% and 9% for three-phase. Three-phase systems are inherently a bit more efficient and hence the different in savings.
For even more efficiency, the VCG power saver can be used in tandem with an energy management device that gives real-time displays of uses and indicates peak-demand times when energy costs are at their highest. Any conserving electricity that you can do during these times will count more and will save you more money.
The VCG works well with solar energy generating homes that are connected to the grid for the purpose of off-setting the cost of their electricity usage by the electricity they generate and put back into the grid. The reduced usage narrows any gap between use and electricity credited and may even help produce an ongoing credit in theory, negating the bill altogether.
Power saver devices are probably here to stay. They do prevent further wasting energy and save energy. The sooner you get one installed the sooner you will save energy and save money.