Eggers Electric since 1973

Eggers Electric, Inc
3520 W Eisenhower Blvd.
Loveland, CO 80537
970-669-1883 0r 669-1884
www.eggerselectric.com
eggers@eggerselectric.com
 

 

 

Green Living

Our Mission Statement
Sustainable or ‘Green Building’ design and construction is the opportunity to use our resources more efficiently, while creating healthier and more energy-efficient homes and businesses. Although there is no magic formula, success comes in the form a leaving a lighter footprint on the environment through conservation of resources, while at the same time balancing energy-efficient, cost-effective, low-maintenance products for our construction needs. In other words, green building design involves finding the delicate balance between homebuilding and the sustainable environment.
Electricity -- from direct connection to wireless -- surrounds our lives at home and at work. As today’s structures race to keep up with our technology-crazed, wired world, convenient electrical products are more important than ever.
Although the significant role plastic plays in our high-tech world is often taken for granted, there is little debate that plastic electrical products are particularly well-suited to meet the concurrent electrical and fire safety requirements that contribute to safety in home design. Since World War II, we have depended on plastic as an insulator and as a means to help enjoy modern conveniences through electricity. With few exceptions, the electrical and communications wires behind walls, under floors, underground and on the roof, are often insulated with plastic. These wires and encasements are often made with vinyl, a naturally-fire retardant plastic. The durability of plastic electrical components helps products last a long time. 
Eggers Electrics Energy Saving Facts and Installation Ideas.
1. Lighting homes, business and industry in the United States accounts for about 20% of all the 
electricity generated today.
2. Although compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL'S) presently cost more to purchase than incandescent 
bulbs, they cost 75% less to operate and last 10 times longer.
3. CFL lighting produces about 75% less heat and cutting energy cost associated with home cooling.
4. CFL lights are available in several color spectrums. Warm, neutral white, or cool white colors.
5. In house hold applications, a CFL can save up to $50.00 in energy cost during its life compared with 
an incandescent lamp.
6. Use CFL'S in locations were lights are left on for 2hours or more.
7. CFL lighting burns cooler then incandescent lamps lowering the risk of fire.
8. Residential appliances, including heating and cooling equipment and water heaters consume 90% of all 
energy used in the US residential sector.
9. In 1997 US residents consumed an average of 12,133 kilowatt hours of electricity, almost 9 times 
greater than the average for the rest of the world.
10. Replacing one incandescent lamp with a CFL means 1,000 pounds less carbon dioxide is emitted to 
the atmosphere and $67.00 dollars is saved on energy costs over the lamps life time. 
11. If every Colorado household replaced one incandescent lamp with a CFL, the savings would total 
more than $11 million in annual energy costs.
12. Keep debris out of you’re AC, so it does not work as hard and use more electricity.
13. Keeping blinds/shades down during the hot days will allow the AC to use less energy.
14. Keep lamps and fixtures clean, dirt and dust reduce light output and causes the light to heat up,
shortening the life time of the lamp.
16. Install receptacle/switch insulators behind wall plates.
17. Ceiling fans during the summer set the rotation of your fan to pull warm air up to the ceiling. 
In winter set the rotation to push warm air down. Using ceiling fans will reduce both your cooling/heating 
cost.
18. Use programmable thermostats for any electric baseboard heating.
19. Time clocks are a great savings for electric hot water heaters, set the clock off when no one is  
home, set the clock to come on 30min. before you get home.
20. Using dimmer switches, motion sensors and occupancy sensors is a great way in saving electricity in 
any size of home.
21. Snow melting equipment should be placed on timers, or lighted switch so they are not left on all the 
time.

Low Impact Living

Standby Power-Phantom Loads

These may be adding to your electricity bill without you even being aware of them. 

Everywhere in our home

This invisible power consumption is the result of “standby power”—the term used to describe the electricity that keeps the clocks, timers, remote controls and other features on our home electronics working and ready to go on the instant we press a button.  But this means our televisions, CD players, computers, microwaves, cordless phones use energy even when we’ve turned them off.

Electricity Bill

Individually these products don’t consume a lot of electricity in standby mode, but put them all together and these phantom loads start to add up.  It is estimated that standby power accounts for as much as 10% of the average household’s annual electricity consumption.

 Solution

The simplest solution to phantom loads is to control the loads with power bars.  Plug appliances like your computer and television into a power bar and plug the power bar into the wall.  That way you can shut down everything at once.