Reducing Electric Bills?

It is. Especially anything that has a built in clock.

Yep. So do all chargers for devices even if there’s no device plugged in for charging. The electricity in the wall doesn’t stop getting sent, and the wires of the plugs don’t stop being a conductive metal, because a button was pushed… and a lot of devices, even when “off” aren’t really…
I’d also watch how many lights/radios/tvs are left on by accident around your house…
And use florescent/LED lights if you can, window light where you can.
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Yes it is true, you might want to invest in a few power strips,it is much easier than unplugging each device separately !

Yup. For example, when an Ipod is turned off for a long time, the energy will still trickle out of the battery. Your power company is right on.

You might also consider reducing a furnace’s turn on temperature if you live in a cold area. Also, turn off lights as soon as you leave the room. Let the cell phone be silent for awhile…that kind of thing.

It is true, but the idle draw on most things is pretty low; in the milliamp range. You could wipe it all out by replacing just one incandescent light bulb with a CFL. I calculated it out one and figured that with the exception of my CRT television I would save myself only less than 1% of my total electric bill.

Your mileage may vary depending on what you have in your house, but the only things that ever affected my electric bill were changing all of my bulbs to CFLs, the thermostat, the outside temperature, and running an electric heater for a few days one time when we ran out of propane in the middle of winter.

@acc639 Great question! I am glad that I saw this…things have been tight and my heat/electric bill has gone through the roof.

I am going unplugged – right now!

Use less amount of inductive load.Chack the power factor at your end by the help of the authorized person from electricity regulatory board of your region.If it’s high ask him the methods to rectify it.There are some adjustments that can be done by the help of capacitor banks at the energy meter output,but I don’t know if that’s allowed at your region.Ask the authorized person for alternatives and take care of small thinsg like not keeping your refrigerator open for long,switching off llights and other equipments when not in use.

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There are always defects in electrical systems and leakage current keeps on flowing through the equipments evethough they are switched off.That might have happened in your case.So just try it out the way they have said and see the difference.

Very true. It also helps to turn off lights when you leave a room. There’s so much energy being wasted when people just turn all the lights on in the house when they aren’t even in the room.

Weatherproofing will save you a ton more. The draft coming through your doors and windows is costing you a hell of a lot more than the tiny drain from your alarm clock.

Unless you live in a department store and leave all the computers plugged in, this amount of electricity in minimal. in your home, at best, these appliances would only use about $5 a month. the question for you is all the unplugging worth it to you for $5 dollars? the best energy saver is your thermostat. place in on 70 degress and leave it there. do not change or touch it. starting at 68 degrees on the thermostat will save you even more. turn lights out when you leave a room and never let a television play to an empty room. turn it off.

I recently realized in my home the heat uses a forced air pressure fan to distribute throughout the house…I didn’t realize that to heat my home I was using both gas and electricity!! If your home/dwelling has central air, then that may explain the spike in electricity too.