Energy Efficiency Washers

Clothes washers that are Energy Star-certified are proven to use 25% less energy and 33% less water than unrated models. This translates to superior efficiency and performance.

Washing clothes is a necessary chore that most households perform at least on a weekly basis. It’s an energy-intensive one too, especially if you use warm water. In fact, the majority of the energy used during the washing process is used to heat the water.

There are many possible economic benefits to using cold water aside from being one of the top energy efficient solutions. For one, consumers can potentially save more than $50 a year by reducing the temperature of their washing water by 15 degrees. There are even reports that washing in cold water can increase the lifespan of your clothes without the damaging heat.

TV Energy Efficiency

Choosing energy-efficient TVs can help you save energy. Like many other people, you probably spend lots of time in front of a TV screen daily. Some people watch television to provide background noise. Others have it on mute at work in order to catch the headlines as they pass by throughout the day. However, TVs can consume a significant amount of electricity even when turned off, so changing your TV habits can be one of your energy efficient solutions.

Following are some tips for more efficient TV consumption:

• When not in use, unplug your television.

Do not use your television as a source of background noise. A radio consumes less power. Turning it off can reduce usage, or better yet, disconnecting your set from the socket can eliminate phantom energy usage. Connecting your television to a power strip is a more convenient option than removing the plug from the wall.

• Reduce the brightness of your TV screen.

Lowering your screen's power consumption has a significant impact on power consumption. When you lower the brightness, you use less energy.

• Make use of the sleep timer feature.

When you haven't interacted with your set in a while, the sleep timer detects this and turns it off. If you forget and leave your television on, this feature prevents you from wasting hours of energy.

• Adjust the screen contrast.

Power consumption can also be influenced by contrast. You can program your TV to turn off pixels when they display "black," which improves the depth of your TV's picture while saving energy.

• Make use of the standby mode.

This feature, like the sleep mode, detects when you haven't interacted with your TV and enters a power-down state for a period of time before eventually powering off.

• Set your television to energy-saving mode.

Using the energy saving mode on your TV allows it to automatically adjust screen brightness and contrast to save power.

• When possible, disable the display.

You don't need to turn on the screen if you're just using it for background noise. Turning off the television and listening to your favorite shows can help you save money.

• Automate your television.

It makes sense to automate appliances that eat up the most electricity, such as your television.

Energy Efficient Light Bulbs

Traditional types of incandescent light bulbs use a lot of energy, and need to be replaced more frequently than energy-efficient alternatives. Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), light-emitting diode bulbs (LEDs), and halogen incandescent bulbs use 25-80% less electricity and has 3 to 25 times longer life than standard bulbs.

Although energy-efficient bulbs are initially more expensive to purchase, their efficient energy use and longer lifetimes mean that they are less expensive over the long term.