PG&E Offers Energy Saving Tips For The Holiday Season
November 21 2012 - 1:50PM
PR Newswire (US)
PG&E Offers Energy Saving Tips For The Holiday Season
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanksgiving
kicks off the holiday season tomorrow, and Pacific Gas and Electric
Company (PG&E) offers the following energy-saving tips to help
customers save energy and money.
No-cost Energy Saving Tips:
- When using your furnace, set your heating thermostat at 68
degrees or lower during the day, health permitting. Set your
thermostat at 55 degrees for the night, or when you will be away
for more than four hours. Turn the furnace off when away for two or
more days.
- Open curtains, drapes and blinds on sunny days to help warm
your home during the winter. Close them at night to help retain
heat in your home.
- Close the damper when not using the fireplace and turn your
heater down when using your fireplace.
- Wash only full loads in the dishwasher and use the energy
saver, air-dry cycle.
- Set your water heater thermostat to 120 degrees or 140 degrees
if you have a dishwasher.
- Wash and dry only full loads in the clothes washer and dryer.
Wash clothes in cold water.
- Cook on range-top burners when practical instead of in the
oven.
- Use the microwave for reheating and cooking small quantities of
food.
- Use the self-cleaning oven feature only when necessary and
start the self-cleaning cycle immediately after the oven is used to
take advantage of pre-existing heat.
- Turn off lights when leaving a room and turn off televisions,
computers and other electronics when not in use.
- Turn off holiday lights before going to bed and when you're
away.
Low-cost Energy Saving Tips:
- Install an ENERGY STAR® programmable thermostat to prevent
unnecessary heating.
- Inspect, clean or change your heating system's air filters once
a month.
- Wrap your water heater with a water heater blanket, especially
if it's in an unheated area of your home.
- Install energy-saving showerheads and faucets in your
home.
- Add weather stripping around windows and doors to reduce
drafts.
- To reduce air leaks, use caulking to seal around ducts, around
plumbing openings and any other openings in walls, floors and
ceilings.
- Replace incandescent holiday lights with LED holiday
lights.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric utilities in the United
States. Based in San
Francisco, with 20,000 employees, the company delivers some
of the nation's cleanest energy to 15 million people in Northern
and Central California. For more
information, visit http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/ and
www.pgecurrents.com.
SOURCE Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)
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