Food costs are crazy nowadays. And more American families are living paycheck to paycheck with VERY little, if ANY funds in savings. With energy rates rising, it is a great idea to look for ways to save electricity on your home. Because every penny saved is extra you didn't have before. But aside from saving energy, is your home protected when disaster strikes? Let's say you come home from work and you go to your refrigerator to start preparing dinner only to discover all your week's groceries are spoiled because the fridge quit working. With all your groceries inside spoiled, plus an easily $1-2K expense of a new fridge, would you be prepared? Worse yet, it wasn't really your fault! It was all from a nasty power surge. But good luck proving that and getting your power provider to reimburse you. You would be surprised to know that the new "Smart" meters actually are less equipped to protect your home from power surges not more. No one likes to pay outrageous electricity bills, but losing appliances unexpected also just plain out sucks! Am I right? So how do you go about lowering electricity bills & protecting your property from power surges & spikes? 1st you must assess what affects your property the most i.e. what makes your bill so high to begin with? Electrical equipment in your house can be very inefficient and some energy hogs are responsible for 50% of your high energy bills. Your energy provider is not concerned with the inefficiency of your equipment, and ruthlessly bills you for the wasted energy. Why do I take this position. It is because they are using technology on their power grid to make it more efficient and increase their profit margins.
BUT the power provider doesn't take the initiative to help their customers actually use less energy. Sure they have their nice little PR campaigns about switching out light bulbs (which is only 5-10% of your bills so it really won't even make a dent.) Why? It's like asking your local grocery store owner to show you how to buy less groceries. It is NOT in their best interest to do so.
Why would your power company spend millions of dollars just so their customers could purchase less from them and put them out of business?
I know it's not moral or ethical, but this is happening around us every day. Robber sues homeowner for breaking into her house! Commercials on TV stating, this medication will help you lose weight, and then the rest of the commercial is about all the horrible side effects you may see from taking medication. It is up to us as the end user, to look at all the information and seek alternative arguments. It is up to us to make our own judgements based on our own specific situation we are going through in our lives. Thus I digress, back to my position on your power company. Why would they put themselves in a position to cut their profit margins? So, what do you do? The first step is to educate yourself on what's impacting your power bills. Researching the internet is an excellent way to do your due diligence. The below infographic gives you an idea on how to get started on the basics.The following article Food Costs Are Crazy, But When This Happens Chaos Ensues… originally seen here ES1200-BLOG
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