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10 Surefire Energy Saving Tips for Your Small Business

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If you are not committed enough to implement green energy and environmentally-friendly practices for your business (just like me), let us forget doing energy saving to make your business environmentally friendly for a minute. Just consider this: You can relieve some pressure to your business’ cash flow by practicing the surprisingly-simple energy saving principles.

Whatever your endeavours are, energy conservation directly affects your bottom line. For no or a relatively small investment, you can cut your small business’ energy expenses considerably.

Energy saving tips that can save you a fortune

Here are 10 surefire energy saving tips that you can implement and see the result right away:

  1. Use energy-consuming equipments only when needed
    Turn off lights and any other equipments when not in use. Do this wisely, as turning off and on equipments and lighting often can cost you more energy than before.
  2. Seal every leak you can find
    Leakages cause your office/store consume more energy – Seal any leaks you can find in windows/doors, pipes, ventilation ducts, etc.
  3. Adjust your thermostat accordingly
    In winter, set office thermostat between 65 and 68 degrees during busy hours, and 60 to 65 degrees during non-busy hours. In summer, set the temperature between 78 and 80 degrees during the busy hours, and above 80 degrees during the rest of your business hours.
  4. Implement work from home policy for your employees
    Send your employees home and let them do teleworking. Implementing this not only cuts your office energy bills, but also enhances employees retention.
  5. Use more mirrors and reflectors
    Placing mirrors and reflectors on the right places can light part or all your office/store space with daylight.
  6. Install ceiling fan
    Whether in winter or summer time, ceiling fans help regulating your office air flow better, thus reducing the burden of your thermostats (and eventually cut your energy bills.)
  7. Paint your office space with light colours
    The lighter, the better – Lighter-coloured paints reflect light better than the darker counterparts.
  8. Plant trees around your premises
    Trees that lose their leaves (with the right height, growth rate and shape) in the fall can help you reducing heating and cooling energy costs in both summer and winter time. Placing trees selectively around your premises can protect you from the summer sun and permit winter sunlight reach your office space. What’s more, they are pleasant to view, thus helping your employees reduce stress.
  9. Use energy efficient office equipments
    Obviously, this mean more investment on your part. However, in the long run, replacing your old and energy-consuming equipments with Energy Star-certified equipments and any other low wattage equipments can save a fortune in the long run. One example of this is to replace your PC’s CRT monitor with LCD monitor.
  10. Maintain your office equipments well
    Well maintained equipments run the most effective. Schedule regular maintenance for your equipments to prolong equipments’ life and cut your energy bills.

More tips

Here are some resources to consult for your small business energy saving endeavours:

Ivan Widjaya
Save energy, save the world (and improve your business’ bottom line)
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Author profile pictureIvan Widjaya is the Owner/Editor of Noobpreneur.com. He is a web property investor, blogger and web property maker, and currently manages and writes for My Web Estate. He also runs a web design business, Chalcedony Design, specialising in Wordpress theme creation, and plenty other web business.

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8 Responses to “10 Surefire Energy Saving Tips for Your Small Business”

  • Ivan- Read you blog with interest. My personal and business interest in “green” is regarding the energy savings and how it can improve the bottom line. I majored in Energy Management in college 25+ years ago and have maintained interest in this field. In addition to yourabove Tips – I might add that many governments and utlilities around the world are offering incentives,rebates,tax credits etc. for implementing various energy saving practices. regards-Scott

  • Ron Derven says:

    Thanks for the smart article! We might add use the internet to save energy! There are websites to hold a meeting online rather than showing up in person after a plane ride and car rental; use free websites for conference calls and use websites over which you can set quite large files rather than calling your favorite freight company.

    RonD

  • Noobpreneur says:

    Hi Scott,

    ‘Glad to have you comment on my post :)

    That’s a great tip you provide – No reason for us not to implement energy saving practices…

  • Noobpreneur says:

    Hi RonD,

    Indeed – The Internet enables us to cut costs (and carbon emission) considerably. Although critics say that web servers pollute our air as much as our cars did, some of them are migrating to a more greener practices, thus enable us browse the Web with green(er) power while cut expenses.

  • Alex says:

    We have been exploring energy saving opportunities and the use of computers. We find that an additional 24% can be found changing our work behavior.

    Unfortunately much of the information on computer energy consumption is out of date or has exaggerated claims.

    http://www.open4energy.com/forum/hc/pwr/energy_saving_tips_home_office_08071455

    Reader beware, some information is colored by marketing and promotional objectives.

  • It seems that item number 3 would be a big money-saver. It’s amazing how much it can cost to heat a place of residence, much less a place of business! I bet a tangible price reduction would be seen in the following month’s energy bill. thanks!

  • Noobpreneur says:

    Alex,

    Superb tips – Thanks for sharing with our readers :)

  • Noobpreneur says:

    Hi Flashlight Guy,

    “It

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