Top Ten Energy Saving Tips For Your

Home In 2016

Renewable energy is generated from natural resources such as the sun, wind, and water, helps you to save your money as well as your carbon emission.

There are various technologies to generate your electricity and heat at home. E.g. Solar Panels, Solar Water Heating, Biomass, Wind Turbines, Ground & Air Source Heat Pumps.

1) Use Renewable Energy Resources

An effective insulation is the perfect to minimize your energy bills. Insulation is a very effective barrier for extra heat loss and heat gain. And hence it is very beneficial for lowering your energy bills.

Insulation can be done in every part of your house as roof, loft, floor, wall.

Drought Proofing around your homes & windows can also save around £25 to £50 per year.

Insulation around tanks, pipes and radiators also helps to reduce heat loss.

2) Insulation Of Your Home

Here You can see how much energy loss you can reduce by proper insulation:

A home energy assessment by a qualified auditor is one of the best ways to make your home more energy efficient.

An audit can help you to evaluate how much energy is consumed at your home and to develop an energy saving plan.

You can also perform Do-It-Yourself audit by examining your utility

bills.

3) Get An Energy Assessment

Using more efficient and smart appliances and heating devices help you to save your energy by minimizing the utilization of energy and loss of energy.

Replacing older appliances with new Energy Star rated appliances is also a good decision for saving your energy.

4) Use Of Efficient & Smart Home Appliances

This $50 handy product is perfect enough to save $200 a year.

For every one degree dropping of the temperature of thermostat you cut about 1% of your energy usage.

5) Program Your Thermostat

Instead of keeping in standby mode turn off or unplug computers, battery chargers and other electronic equipment when you're not using them.

6) Disable Standby Mode

Use smart meters and save your energy smartly.

Along with measuring total energy used these meters also tell you about when you have used it and how much it costs.

This can help you to track your usage and manage your cost.

7) Use Smart Meters

Lowering your water heater temperature and taking short showers during winters can also helps you to curb your energy usage.

Improving your water heating system can also contribute to your energy savings.

8) Conserver Hot Water

9) Use Efficient Lightning

There are lot many energy efficient lightning are available in the market.

CFLs & LEDs are the mostly used energy efficient light bulbs in UK.

By replacing your traditional bulb with CFL can save you up to £3 per year and LED can benefit you around£30 a year on your electricity bill.

Comparison of Various Lightning Technologies

Many energy suppliers offers some deals and discounts.

Compare all the suppliers in your area and then choose the perfect one.

Switch your current energy supplier if required.

10) Avail Discounts By Energy Supplier

Thank You Green Energy Scotland