Tip Of The Day: Save Electricity - Don't leave items on standby

Saving money and helping the environment can compliment each other. How would you like to reduce your electricity bill by over 40%, cut water consumption by over 50% and cut your heating bill by around 25%. Check out the links below for simple ways to save money and reduce electricty, water and heaing bills.

A lot of the tips on these sites are simple and can be implemented for little or no financial outlay. Often it is the simple things that give the greatest energy savings. To achieve the maximum energy savings with minimal effect on your lifestyle the subject of saving money and energy needs to be approached in a logical way, however very significant savings can be obtained just from following the simple tips without spending large sums of money. It is important to get all members of the household involved.

Before rushing out and spending large sums on things like solar heating, new super efficient boilers or wind turbines think carefully whether it is a justifiable expense. The more you reduce energy use by simple cost effective means the harder the more expensive items are to justify and the pay back time could well exceed the life of the equipment, this is especially true if significant maintenance is involved.

If you just want to find the easy wins check out the Electricity, Heating and Water saving tips.

Web Sites

Practical Home Energy Saving

Practical home energy and money saving tips for electricity, heating and water. Also reviews of energy saving devices.

JSutils

Free software for energy use calculation and energy use comparison plus software to help minimise computer energy use.

Links
A collection of useful links on the subject of conservation and energy saving.

Blogs

Practical home energy saving on the EnergyMiser Blog - have your say on the subject of energy saving, the environment and any other related subject.

Energy saving and calculation software on the SoftwareMiser Blog - comment on the programs and suggest new ideas for energy saving software.

If you have an European web site or blog dealing with the reduction of energy use or software to calculate or save energy and would like it featured please contact us. This web site is totally independent with no commercial affiliations.