Why save electricity?
What's your motivation for cutting your electricity use?
Most visitors to Green Energy Efficient Homes come looking for ways to save energy in their homes - and many of those want to save electricity. We've had over 250,000 pageviews in the past six months, and more than half of those were on pages covering electricity use - from air conditioners to electric heaters to fridges to freezers to lighting.
Why are people so eager to save electricity? Is it because costs keep rising? Is it because the economic downturn is making people more focused on cutting costs? Or are people motivated by concerns over climate change, pollution, or dependence on foreign energy imports?
Our family wanted to switch to solar electric power, to cut the CO2 emissions and nuclear waste produced on our behalf by our utility. Since cutting use up front means you don't have to spend as much on solar panels, we cut out the fat and got our use down to half what it was before. Then we realized that we could just buy our power from a green electricity supplier, and still wind up paying less, even with the green energy premium, than we used to pay before when we used more. So we were motivated both by environmental and money concerns.
What is your motivation for wanting to save electricity? Is it:
- Wanting to cut back on smog in the air you breathe?
- Opposition to nuclear power?
- CO2 emissions and climate change?
- Struggling to make ends meet?
Let us know your motivations, and what you're doing (or planning to do) to save electricity. By filling out the form below, you'll get your own web page on our site, complete with your idea and any comments others care to add. You can also comment on other people's submissions - just click on someone else's submission below to rate it or add a comment.
Tell the world why you want to cut your electricity use
Just about everyone wants to use less electricity - what's your take? Let us know whether you're trying to save electricity because of the financial cost, the environmental cost, or both - or something else.
Why others are trying to save electricity
Click below to see what others have to say about their motivations for saving electricity.
Saving electricity in Italy
I really need to save electricity because electricity in Italy has always been amongst the most expensive in the world. Partly because Italy got rid of ...
Less Electric Means More Living
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Saving electricity is important if we want to conserve energy and save our planet. It is a first step in showing we care. Electrical consumption is huge,...
It's about living more simply
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When something's cheap you don't value it, and that's what has happened with Americans and electricity. We don't pay enough to even notice the impact of ...
Why I save electricity
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When I think about the many reasons I want to save electricity, there are three thoughts that stand out. First of all, I want to do my part in contributing ...
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