Take a tour around the house to see how much energy your electric appliances use.
- Did you know that 44 percent of household energy use goes for heating & cooling homes? If everyone in the U.S. turned down their heating temperatures a few degrees a day, we would save the energy equivalent of a half million barrels of oil a day.
- Did you know that 32 percent of household energy use goes for our major appliances? Nine percent of home energy use goes for refrigerators and freezers; 23 percent goes for other major appliances.
- Did you know that 14 percent of household energy use goes for heating water?*
- Did you know that 10 percent or more home energy use goes for lighting? If every U.S. household replaced just one incandescent lightbulb with a compact fluorescent, the resulting energy savings would be enough to power more than 800,000 homes for a year!
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*Sources: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy; U.S. Department of Energy
