Energy Hogs: Where Does Most of Your Electricity Go?by Mary Ann Romans | More from this Blogger 27 Mar 2007 05:40 AM
Although energy usage may vary slightly depending on the brands and models of your appliances, you can certainly use my guidelines to determine what in your home is eating up the most electricity. Looking at the maximum watts an appliance uses is a good determinate of how much it will cost you to run. A good rule of thumb you can use to determine where the energy hogs are hiding is that anything that produces heat or removes heat uses a lot of electricity. Here are some of the biggest offenders. In future articles, I will discuss how to reduce your energy usage with these hogs, and offer some tried and true frugal tips to help you save money. Here are some numbers put together by michaelbluejay.com, the self professed "Mr. Energy. The number reflect the maximum energy usage. That is, the amount of watts your appliance needs while it is actively running.
Light bulbs by themselves only use up 40 to 100 watts, but since there are many of them throughout your home, their energy usage can quickly add up. They also tend to be the things that are left on in active use for long periods of time. I think light bulbs should definitely be included as energy hogs. Was this article helpful? What are some of the ways you save on electricity? Related Articles: Save on Water Heating: Insulate! Non-Frugal Light Bulbs May Soon Be Illegal Are Your Daily Habits Wasting Energy? Calculating Your Car's Fuel Economy Learn more about Mary Ann Romans  Mary Ann Romans is a freelance writer, wife and mother of three children. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, the kids and a 16-pound cat. Relevantfrugal tags User Comments No comments on this article yet. Be the first to comment! Community Tags conservation, electricity, saving energy Discuss this article
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Is it really important to shut that night light off when the real energy hog in your bedroom is running along happily chewing up your electricity dollars as you sleep? If you know what appliances in your house use up the most electricity, you can concentrate on reducing their energy usage as much as possible. This way you will reap the biggest savings on your monthly expenses.
