My Alternative Residential Energy Story

I replaced all my incandescent light bulbs with compact florescent bulbs, seemed like an easy enough thing to do. They use 75% less electricty and put out 75% less heat than a incandesant light bulb. So my bill for lighting was 75% less. Which really added up there are over 50 light bulbs in my house and some are on all the time.

Then I learned that 40% of the average electric bill was from devices that I thought were off. Things like TVs, DVD players, microwaves and the worse power thief DC converters. For those that don't know what those are, they are used for phone chargers and electronic games basically any over sized plug is a DC converter. I put these devices on power strips so when I turned off the power strip I knew they were not using power or I just unplugged them.

Every Time I needed a new electric device, I got the ones with a high energy star rating.

The end result of all these small steps was that my electrical needs dropped by 65%. Now this changed the equations and formulas, and I saw that having my own alternative residential energy source just got 65% closer.
So I checked into the best way for me to start my own renewable energy source. I needed to know which one would fit my location best. What size it should be. I found no better place to get the answer to these questions than Earth4energy. They gave me easy to follow step by step instructions and full support. I haven't had an electric bill for a year and a half now and I still have all the modern conveniences just like every one else, ac, TV, computer and etc.... Now if I could just do something about the cable co. If now click here if not now when!