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Tips to Save Energy SAVE ENERGY It’s easy to cut back on the amount of energy used in your home every season of the year. Simply follow these cardinal rules for saving energy, and soon you may be saving money on your energy bills. SPRING It’s the right thing to do. INSTALL HIGH-EFFICIENCY A/C TUNEUP - Get your A/C HVAC SYSTEMS - Consider tuned up before the summer installing a high-efficiency season to ensure maximum furnace and A/C unit. They use performance. And remember to less energy and make your home change your air filter regularly. more comfortable. PLANT A TREE – Plant leafy UPGRADE APPLIANCES – Time trees on the south side of your for spring cleaning. We’ll take home to provide cooling shade 30 away your old working fridge or during hot weather, and plant TIPS TO SAVE freezer, and responsibly recycle evergreens upwind (most often it! Upgrade old appliances with north/northwest) of your home Energy Star-labeled appliances to cut down on winter drafts. ENERGY such as refrigerators, freezers, Well-positioned trees can save dishwashers, washers and dryers. up to 20% off your home’s energy for heating and cooling. SAVE ON YOUR NIPSCO BILL OUTDOOR LIGHTING - Spruce Remember to call 811 at least EVERY SEASON. up your outdoor landscape with two days before you dig. solar lighting fixtures. They will power up during the day and INSTALL ATTIC FAN – Prepare for the summer months by turn on at night. For more energy saving tips installing an attic fan. It can SEAL AIR LEAKS - Prevent help regulate your home’s and information on our Energy warm air from leaking into your temperature by pushing hot air Efficiency Programs visit home. Re-caulk or seal gaps that outside while pulling in cool air NIPSCO.COM/SAVENOW allow outside air to leak in. from soffit gable vents. FALL INSTALL STORM WINDOWS - FURNACE Prior to winter, install storm MAINTENANCE - Have your windows over windows with only furnace checked before each single panes. A removable glass heating season and replace the frame can be installed over an filters often throughout the year existing window. as dirty filters block air flow. UPGRADE TO UNPLUG THE CHARGERS - ENERGY-EFFICIENT Chargers use energy when they INSULATION - Insulation helps are plugged in. If not connected prevent heat loss and heat gain to electronics, chargers should in a home. Proper insulation be unplugged. could save up to 20% on your home’s heating and cooling TURN OFF THE COMPUTER - costs. Computers should be shut off INSULATE WINDOWS AND when not in use. If a computer SUMMER DOORS – The simplest and must be left on, the monitor WINTER cheapest way to reduce energy should be shut off. loss is to seal all window edges AVOID EXCESSIVE USE OF CHECK PLACEMENT OF REPLACE YOUR LIGHT BULBS - INSTALL A WIFI SMART INSTALL ATTIC and cracks with rope caulk. WELL PUMPS - APPLIANCE - Make sure that Replace your incandescent bulbs THERMOSTAT – A Wi-Fi smart VENTING - Install Avoid overwatering lawns, your refrigerators and freezers CLOSE UP THE with Energy Star-certified LED thermostat can be programmed energy-efficient ventilation to particularly during the summer aren’t located near the stove, FIREPLACE – Keep the damper bulbs that last on average 25 to automatically adjust the improve air circulation in the months. Constant use of a well dishwasher or heat vents. closed on your fireplace when it times longer and consume up to temperature when you are away attic. Venting an attic allows pump can significantly impact Exposure to warm areas forces or sleeping. is not in use. 80% less electricity. outdoor air to flow into the attic your water bill. them to use more energy to remain cool. INSULATE HEATING DUCTS - in the winter while providing an AIR CONDITIONERS – 20-30% of the air moving escape route for hot air in the Double check to make sure the CEILING FANS - Using a ceiling through the duct system is summer. air conditioner compressor/ fan will allow you to raise the lost due to leaks. Insulating the condenser unit that is located thermostat temperature about 4 heating ducts can prevent this RUN HOT WATER outside the home is shaded. degrees without reducing your loss and save energy. BEFORE TURNING ON THE comfort level. DISHWASHER – Run hot water USE A SMART POWER STRIP - INSULATE HOT WATER in your kitchen sink before Smart power strips help save TIMERS - Timers and motion PIPES - Insulating pipes reduces turning on your dishwasher energy by shutting off the sensors keep outdoor lights on heat loss, raising the water to bring hot water up to your power to electronics when they when you need them and off temperature 2 to 4 degrees dishwasher. are not in use. when you don’t. hotter than the temperature in uninsulated pipes. COLLECT WATER - Use a AIR DRY DISHES – Air dry VACATION TIME – If you rain barrel to collect and store your dishes instead of using KEEP THE OVEN CLOSED - are going away for more water from your gutters. When the dishwasher’s drying cycle. Every time the oven door is than a week, turn down the you need it, you won’t have to Open the door after the rinse opened, the temperature drops temperature on your water turn on the hose and run up the cycle and let Mother Nature do as much as 25 degrees, causing heater and raise it back up when water bill. the rest. longer cooking times. you return home. .
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