How Smart Home Upgrades Can Help You Sell Your House
Smart home upgrades can help you sell your house faster and for a higher price. While there are no guarantees, upgrading home technology can increase the perceived value and desirability of your property, making it more marketable.
How to Automate Your Home Appliances That Use the Most Energy
Lowering your household’s electricity consumption has a positive impact on the environment as well as your monthly energy bill. The tricky part is figuring out what uses the most electricity in your home and controlling it.
Which Way Should a Ceiling Fan Turn in the Summer & Winter?
When temperatures go up, often so does air conditioning usage. But A/C can use a lot of electricity, which may be expensive.
How to Keep Your House Cool Without Raising Your Energy Bill
Many Americans think of air conditioning during the hottest days of summer as a must. But air conditioners are one of the largest energy users in your house.
How to Properly Load Your Dishwasher for Energy Efficiency
To get your dishes clean, protect them from damage and save energy, it’s important to learn how to properly load your dishwasher. After all, these appliances are engineered to be used in a specific way.
Lesson Plan: Lighting and Appliances
This week’s lesson focuses on two items within the home that use a good amount of energy and are sometimes easy to control. According to the U.
Lesson Plan: Measuring Electricity Consumption
This week’s lesson on electricity consumption builds upon the previous week’s lesson. However, topics will be re-introduced for newcomers!
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Energy Consumption of Streaming Services
If your family is like most, streaming content has become commonplace in your household. You may even start to wonder what impact those streaming services have on your energy consumption.
Lesson Plan: Understanding Your Energy Bill
This week’s lesson will help families to understand and dissect their electricity bills and understand how smart meters, utility apps and utility website data can help inform household energy decisions. As this lesson focuses most on electricity, the text will revisit and review electricity text previously covered, but this time with a new angle and
Lesson Plan: Solar Energy
This lesson aims to introduce students to solar energy. Energy from the sun plays a part in the use of nearly every other source of energy, from wind to biomass to yes – fossil fuels!
How Much Energy Do Game Consoles Really Use?
Computer games have never been more popular. Two-thirds of Americans use PCs, consoles and streaming devices to play games.
