Why your electric bills are soaring

Interesting article. It goes into the average price people pay for electricity.

It also gives a chart on how much electricity each average item in your house uses. We have many products that are in standby mode 24 hours per day so that they start quickly. This uses electricity all the time.

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A fellow I read about got timers to turn off items in house completely at night and reduced his bill by 43%. He was making his house a solar powered house and achieved it reducing consumption 43%. For example, turning off the water heater between 10 pm and 5 am. Why heat water all night long?