How to reduce your energy use at home with Clipsal
Choosing to live a more energy efficient life has never been easier. And the decisions you make for your home can help to reduce not only your environmental impact, but your power bills too.
By selecting electrical products that require less power, run only when needed, and that even give you an oversight of your power usage, you and your family will be on track to energy efficiency every day.
Start with the basics
There are simple ways to set your home on a path to saving energy. Swapping to LEDs for lamps and downlights is a great start. LEDs are energy efficient, long-lasting, and produce minimal heat.
Sensors help by activating lights around your home only when they’re needed and turning them off again automatically after a set time. They’re especially handy in areas where you don’t want to be fumbling for a light switch if your hands are full, like the pantry, walk-in wardrobes, laundry and garage.
Sensors are also ideal for illuminating a safe pathway in hallways at night, on staircases, and even connected to dimmed undercabinet lights in the bathroom for night-time visits. Sunset switches for outdoor lighting can illuminate your home and garden automatically at dusk and be set to turn off again later at night.
Extractor fans are an important addition to bathrooms and laundries. They remove moist air from your home’s environment and potentially help to reduce the need for additional heating.
Smart home energy efficiency
Adding smart home elements with a system like Clipsal Wiser can really boost your energy efficiency.
Wiser is a scalable smart home system that doesn’t require any special wiring, so you can start with one or two products and add more over time. Each element links to the Wiser by SE app to give you easy control from your smart device, whether you’re at home or out and about.
Wiser Connected Power Points let you control when the switches turn on and off. Use them to create a schedule for your heated towel rails so they aren’t running constantly and unnecessarily. A Wiser Humidity Sensor is a clever addition to bathrooms and laundries as it can automatically trigger extractor fans to remove moist air and turn them off again when the job is done.
A Wiser Temperature Sensor can link with your home’s heating and cooling system so that it turns on only when needed to keep rooms at their ideal temperature. Wiser Blind Controls can also activate automatically to prevent sunny spaces from getting too hot, or to retain heat on colder evenings.
You can monitor and control your home’s energy usage through a dashboard on the Wiser by SE app. It provides insights into your energy consumption and helps you plan for more effective efficiencies to reduce your energy costs.
Future-ready with EV charging
Whether you drive an electric car at the moment or not, installing or even pre-wiring for an EV charger at your home is an important consideration.
Schneider Charge is a robust, weatherproof EV charger that can be installed outside or in your garage and lets you charge an electric vehicle faster, more reliably and with greater safety than with a domestic socket outlet.
You can control Schneider Charge manually or via the Wiser by SE app, ensuring your EV is charging on your schedule, at the most energy efficient time, and always ready to go when you are.
If you aren’t ready to commit to an at-home charger just yet, talk to your electrician about pre-wiring – it will make installation simpler down the track and is an attractive benefit for any future home buyer.
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