How Much You Can Save On Electricity?

Calculate how much you can reduce your monthly electricity bill

So you want to cut your electricity costs and reduce power costs. One immediate step is to take actions on energy saving tips and change some of your power consumption habits (see our page for electricity saving tips). This alone will save you 10-15% of your monthly costs.

Another step which will give you quantum leap in terms of saving money and can cut immediately 80% of your costs is to build your own home power system such as solar power system or wind power system (for more information take a look at the Home Solar Power System page or the Home wind power system page). You can actually achieve much more and totally eliminate your spending on electricity and even make extra money from it buy selling the excess power to your local power company.

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Since power of electricity is not a tangible thing and you can’t really feel it, you may think there is no potential savings here. I’m sure you know how much you pay each month (and if you don’t you better start looking at that), but do you know how much you spend per electricity component such as light bulb, TV screen, washing machine etc. Do you know what are the peak and off peak rates in your area and do you use it wisely.

There is an old saying that “you can manage without facts and in order to bring facts you need to measure”. To help you realize how much it costs and figure out how much you can save, we collected for you the best and most useful sites on this topic and reviewed them. Here is the list:

1. Business.Gov  – this is the official site of US government. In it you’ll find useful tips, some calculators, and links to home builders.
2. Home Energy Saver (HES) – This is the first and best web based DIY Energy audit site. In the first page, you’ll find small link to the calculator that is based on your address. Based on your address, you will get the annual energy costs of an average home in your area and the potential savings. After answering few more questions, the potential saving and the current expenditures will be fine tuned. You’ll also be able to find some suggestions on how to make the potential savings a reality.
3. HandyMath.com – This site have various calculators for plenty of purposes. With this electricity cost calculator you’ll need to insert the cost per hour, the appliance type, usage time and the watt/Hour (you can find it with the appliance manufacturer). It will total for you as well as provide you with breakdown per appliance and by that enable you to focus on the most energy eater items.
4. WebMatch.com – works in the same principal as HandyMath.com.
5. Saving Electricity – this is probably one of the best sites for that purpose. It also contains information per appliance, interesting articles and statistics that can help you to save money.
6. Generic Electrical Energy Cost Calculator – it is another calculator that takes the information per appliance and calculate the cost based on an average cost of kW/Hr. here is the link - Generic Electrical Energy Cost Calculator