Social media has more uses these days than one can imagine.
You can plan a trip, find a restaurant, or hire a dog sitter. You can also use social media to save energy at home.
According to Opower, their social energy app at social.opower.com is enabling people to take action and become more energy-efficient. Leveraging the Facebook platform, the app allows people to quickly and easily start benchmarking their home’s energy usage against similar homes, compare energy use with friends, enter energy-saving competitions, and share tips on how to become more energy efficient.
By urging consumers to be involved in a proactive sense, there is lots of money and energy to be saved.
In conjunction with Facebook, this app is a great tool.
By networking together, wherever you do it, people are more inclined to think about and do something about energy savings.
Get Social with Energy Reviews
Another way to use social media for savings is with an energy review.
As the following article looks at, once your home is reviewed, you can figure out how to turn energy reviews into savings themselves.
An energy review is basically an energy audit – it’s an assessment of the efficiency of your energy.
You can do this on your own, or hire someone, and social media is a great place to find information, or even find an auditor.
If you are trying to decide whether to pay someone or do it yourself, ask around on social media.
Hashtag energyauditor or #energysavingsideas on Twitter, ask your Facebook friends and take a look on your energy company’s social media.
The basic difference is that yes, you’ll be paying a professional, but they are more experienced and thorough than you probably are. If you do it yourself, do that research.
Once you’ve got your home audited, implement the savings ideas, and you could potentially save in the neighborhood of 5-30% of your energy bill per year.
Locate Energy Savings
The biggest areas where you can find savings are in insulation, air leaks, heating and air, lighting and in appliances and electronics.
Some of these can be quick fixes while others will be more of an investment. Again, reach out to social media to find ideas on how to save in these areas.
For instance, if you’re considering replacing old appliances with energy efficient new ones, look on social media for reviews and savings numbers. You can also find rebates and other tax incentives on some appliances or work you have done.
Social media is also a great place to find a home energy auditor as well as fix-it and savings tips.
Another option that is somewhere in between doing an audit yourself and hiring someone is an online energy audit.
It’s at least a good place to start and can give you a good base of information.
Your savings may not be earth-shattering even after you’ve done the review and the changes, but some is better than none.
Also, you’re making the environment a little greener by making your home more energy efficient.
So check out social media to get started on your review, and then check again for great ways to fix your challenges.
Please share any great tips you find!
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