Top Green electricity tips that can conserve energy and lower costs.

To begin you should audit your home and lifestyle. A home energy audit is a way to inventory your home's energy use, where energy is lost, and where it can be saved. You can do an energy audit yourself or get a pro. Many utilities also offer home and business energy audits free. American homes consume around six times the world average. Homes consume a vast amount of energy. Home audits provide simple solutions that can reduce your electricity bill. Below are other useful tips to start cutting electrical costs:

• Reduce your consumption

• Use bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) or even light emitting diodes (LEDs).

• Turn off lights and other electrical devises when not in use.

• Avoid using electronics on a standby setting; they continue to use a electricity even when "turned off."

• AC adaptors on many power cables, pull currents, they should be removed from the wall when not in use or utilize a power strip that can be turned off at night.

• Clothes driers consume a lot of power, so line dry clothes to save energy.

• Keep your house cool with natural ventilation

• Use house fans to move air throughout the house

• Block direct sunlight during hot hours

• Wrap electrical water heaters with an insulating blanket

• Buy smart

• Look for new energy-efficient appliances

• Electronics like computers and audio equipment can be big power suckers, reduce the use.

• Be smart with lighting.

• Install home alternative energy systems. Photovoltaic, or solar electric, systems are the most common.

• Wind turbines help circulate the air, thus, keeping the house cooler.

• Charge up your electronic toys with solar energy.

• Build new homes around energy efficiency to bring in enormous savings.

• Sign up for green power. Getting green power may be as easy as checking a box on your energy bill. About 600 of the US's 6,000 power utilities offer a green power option of one kind or another. In this sort of program, the local utility buys renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.) and then passes it along to customers.
  

• Buy renewable energy credits. The most recognized certifier of RECs is Green-e, an independent, non-profit group that verifies renewable energy credits and certifies that they are what they claim to be.