Make every day Earth Day with some simple energy savers
Earth Day is on April 22 this year. Here are 10 ways to celebrate by saving energy at home:
1. Call a qualified air conditioning technician to service your central air conditioning system. HVAC equipment needs service every year to head off ma- jor problems and keep the system running smoothly all summer.
2. As long as the spring weather is mild, open a window instead of turning on the air conditioner. Draw soft spring breezes into the home by turning on your ceiling fans.
3. Cook outside on the grill as soon as the weather permits it. When you don’t turn on your kitchen’s cooktop or oven, you don’t heat up your house.
4. Close the shades. It’s tempting to leave them open on beautiful, sunny spring days. But if it’s hot outside, that heat can find its way into your house through the windows and tempt you to crank the a/c up unnecessarily.
5. If it’s sunny but not hot outdoors, throw those cur- tains open and let the natural daylight illuminate your home. Then, turn off the lights. You won’t need them.
6. Don’t have a programmable thermostat yet? It’s time. Sometimes spring weather calls for heat and sometimes you need the a/c. A programmable ther- mostat will help you limit how much energy you use for either by automatically turning the temperature up or down as needed.
7. Seal the ducts in your central air conditioning sys- tem. Leaky ducts can push your cooling costs up by as much as 30 percent.
8. Likewise, caulk around windows and electrical outlets so cool air can’t escape your house and hot air can’t get in.
9. Keep your home’s humidity levels low by running kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans—but only until the smoke or steam clears. Running them for too long will suck more than humidity and odor from your home. Those fans can send your comfortable, condi- tioned air out of the house.
10. Change your a/c filter. A clogged filter forces your system to work harder and use more energy. It also can send the dust and allergens it collects right back into your indoor air.
Congratulations - Rodney & Mick Cimarron Linemen Selected to Energy Trails Guatemala Team
Mick Hart, Alternate, Anna Pollantano, OAEC Editor, Rodney Johnson, Team Member, Jeff Hyatt, C.O.O.
The Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives (OAEC) has selected a group of volunteer linemen to electrify a remote village in the northwestern part of Guatemala this coming October. The project site is located in Alta Verapaz. The name of the isolated village is Chiis. The announcement comes after a successful electrification project that took place in the country of Bolivia in the year of 2016. Twelve team members will build lines to bring electricity to villagers over a 17 day period. The team members all work for REC’s in Oklahoma. We con- gratulate Cimarron Lineman Rodney Johnson who was selected on the team and Cimarron’s Mick Hart who was selected as an alternate in case one of the team members can’t go.
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