Post by kopycat on May 22, 2007 9:51:33 GMT -4
How are you saving water, electricity, home heating fuel and fuel for your automobile? Do you have suggestions for going green? Do you know someone who is elderly and can't do the things to save energy and clean up around their homes? Talk it up here.
Later, I'll provide links to website-portal and forum (Green Space) where you can talk about environmental issues. For now, please tell us what you are doing to save money and the planet.
Joe Satterfield, Vice President, BRMEMC, has the following suggestions for saving fuel. Have you followed his suggestions? Tell us about it.
What can people do to help lower their electricity use and thus their bills: first, and primarily, turn off the lights you're not using. "It's the easiest thing people can do, as well as buying the most effective bulbs that burn cooler and last longer. This one action can save 70 percent on what lighting costs in your home. They are more to buy initially, but your savings is significant."
BRMEMC also offers "Energy Auditors" who will come to your home, check power flow, bills, efficiency of water heaters, refrigerators, stoves, and insulation- then make cost-saving recommendations. All this is free to BRMEMC members.
What uses most of the electricity in a home? Typically, the heating/cooling system, then the water heater, followed by cooking, especially use of large ovens. Satterfield said, "changing out old for newer systems can be a great improvement in savings. If, for instance, you take out a 15-year old water heater and replace it with a new one, your payments for the new one won't be more than what the old one was costing in electricity."
About 26 percent of our electricity comes from nuclear power, and forty-eight percent comes from Tennessee Valley Authority water operations, around three percent from natural gas and twenty-four percent from coal.
Satterfield reports that BRMEMC has doubled their capacity in recent months with new sub-stations. "We are continually working on building in capacity because in this business you can't have a surprise. You can't turn on a plan or generate new systems overnight."
When asked if the system in place provides a real comfort zone for the areas served by BRMEMC Satterfield said, "You can tell people that Joe won't lose any sleep about present and future capacities. Yes, we are in a very comfortable place."
BRMEMC has programs that include loans for the purchase and installation of electric systems that are cost-saving. Call any of the offices for more information. (source: Union Sentinel)
Later, I'll provide links to website-portal and forum (Green Space) where you can talk about environmental issues. For now, please tell us what you are doing to save money and the planet.
Joe Satterfield, Vice President, BRMEMC, has the following suggestions for saving fuel. Have you followed his suggestions? Tell us about it.
What can people do to help lower their electricity use and thus their bills: first, and primarily, turn off the lights you're not using. "It's the easiest thing people can do, as well as buying the most effective bulbs that burn cooler and last longer. This one action can save 70 percent on what lighting costs in your home. They are more to buy initially, but your savings is significant."
BRMEMC also offers "Energy Auditors" who will come to your home, check power flow, bills, efficiency of water heaters, refrigerators, stoves, and insulation- then make cost-saving recommendations. All this is free to BRMEMC members.
What uses most of the electricity in a home? Typically, the heating/cooling system, then the water heater, followed by cooking, especially use of large ovens. Satterfield said, "changing out old for newer systems can be a great improvement in savings. If, for instance, you take out a 15-year old water heater and replace it with a new one, your payments for the new one won't be more than what the old one was costing in electricity."
About 26 percent of our electricity comes from nuclear power, and forty-eight percent comes from Tennessee Valley Authority water operations, around three percent from natural gas and twenty-four percent from coal.
Satterfield reports that BRMEMC has doubled their capacity in recent months with new sub-stations. "We are continually working on building in capacity because in this business you can't have a surprise. You can't turn on a plan or generate new systems overnight."
When asked if the system in place provides a real comfort zone for the areas served by BRMEMC Satterfield said, "You can tell people that Joe won't lose any sleep about present and future capacities. Yes, we are in a very comfortable place."
BRMEMC has programs that include loans for the purchase and installation of electric systems that are cost-saving. Call any of the offices for more information. (source: Union Sentinel)
I need to go fix a puter. Later.
