Electrify Your Home:
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Water heating is a home's second-highest energy cost.
Minimize it by first reducing your use of hot water: install low-flow faucets and shower heads; turn down the temperature of your tank; insulate your heater tank and surrounding pipes; launder with cold water. Most effective of all, when you shop for a new water heater, choose the most efficient model within your budget. Electric heat pump water heaters typically offer the best balance of up-front cost, ease of installation, and savings over time. https://www.raponline.org/knowledge-center/beneficial-electrification-of-water-heating/ "Water heating accounts for almost 20 percent of residential energy bills—and, put simply, today it can take far less energy to heat a gallon of water with electricity than directly with fossil fuel." Use this calculator to figure how much you will save by switching to a heat pump water heater. |