Lower the thermostat on your water heater to 120 degrees.
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Description
Adjust the thermostat on your water heater to 120 degrees. This is hot enough for maintaining cleaning requirements and having hot water for bathing, but requires much less energy.Tags
- hot water
- individual
- once
- operating
- residence
- water
- year round
Assumptions We Made
Used Energy Center of Wisconsin water heater calculator spreadsheet. Considers both electric and gas water heaters, and factors such as persons in household, presence of washers, temperatures, to determine volume of water consumed and total energy consumed. here, assumed water temperature changed from 140 to 120 for family of 4 with both clothes and dish washers. calculation for ELECTRIC water heater.Impacts
Initial Impacts
Each time you carry out this action, the immediate impacts are:
- Unknown
Ongoing Impacts
Some actions also have additional impact over time. For this action, these are:
- Saves 89.85 dollars per year
- Saves 913.49 kilowatt hours per year
- Saves 1242.58 lbs of CO2 per year
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