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Watts killing you? The Library can help you figure out home electricity usage. Ask for a Kill A Watt? meter next time you?re in an Arlington Public Library, or search the library catalog and reserve one with the Place Hold button. Take it home and connect your appliances to measure how efficient they are. Figure out your electrical costs by the hour, day, week, month, year. Then you can consider if power hungry appliances can be replaced with more energy efficient ones, or if some just need to be unplugged when not in use--like the energy vampires!
According to EnergyStar, much of the power to home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Features like clock displays and remote controls are good examples. The average U.S. household spends $100 per year to power devices while they are in this "standby" power mode. Using less energy preserves energy resources and helps reduce the risks of global warming while saving money on energy bills."
Check out the Kill A Watt meter like a book, but it's due in 7 days with 2 optional renewals. Overdue fees are $.30 per day.
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How Much Electricity Does My ______ Use?
Watts killing you? The Library can help you figure out home electricity usage. Ask for a Kill A Watt? meter next time you?re in an Arlington Public Library, or search the library catalog and reserve one with the Place Hold button. Take it home and connect your appliances to measure how efficient they are. Figure out your electrical costs by the hour, day, week, month, year. Then you can consider if power hungry appliances can be replaced with more energy efficient ones, or if some just need to be unplugged when not in use--like the energy vampires!According to EnergyStar, much of the power to home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Features like clock displays and remote controls are good examples. The average U.S. household spends $100 per year to power devices while they are in this "standby" power mode. Using less energy preserves energy resources and helps reduce the risks of global warming while saving money on energy bills."
Check out the Kill A Watt meter like a book, but it's due in 7 days with 2 optional renewals. Overdue fees are $.30 per day.
Have a question you'd like to see answered in this space? Let us know.
- Cfp: Technology And The Home
CFP: Technology and the Home One could reasonably argue that without technology in its simplest form, homes would not exist. Technology has also made homes more comfortable, attractive, safer, and sturdier. In the pre-industrial past, the home?s relationship...
- Central Plugs Into The Sun
More photos from the ribbon-cutting The Library marked National Energy Awareness Month by hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 24 at Central Library, where the new solar panel installation is the County's latest effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....
- Central Library Goes Solar
Beginning the first week of June, Arlington County?s Department of Environmental Services will install solar panels on the roof of the Central Library to help reduce the facility?s "peak demand" energy usage, offset a portion of its electricity consumption,...
- "understand Energy" Fun Programs In May
Update 5/9: The May 11 program at Central Library has been canceled. Updated 4/15: Program at Columbia Pike has been postponed. Energy. It's a constant issue these days and it affects your life and your pocketbook. Join us this Spring for a great...
- Energy Efficient Central Library
Did you know that between 1999 and 2009, Arlington County energy management activities cut energy use at Central Library by 36%, saving nearly $100,000 each year in avoided energy costs? Arlington's Central Library is just one example of how the...