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Size doesn’t always matter when it comes to saving electricity. Those mini-refrigerators of about 2 cubic feet are perfect for your office or dorm room and may save you space and money up-front, but they’re surprisingly inefficient when it comes to conserving electricity. “The most efficient compact refrigerator we recently tested consumes about 280 kilowatt-hours…

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Why should you be concerned about electric safety? Unfortunately, when electricity is misused serious injury or even death can be the result. Even a small nightlight with a 6-watt bulb draws enough current to be fatal under certain circumstances. Following is information to help you better understand how electricity works and why you should always…

The New Year often brings a resolve to save more and spend less, and that could be especially true during these difficult economic times. It’s a resolution you can keep. How? Replace one major home appliance with an Energy Star appliance, and you can save $75 this year on your energy bills. You may have…

Ten East Texas cooperatives were knocked about by Hurricane Ike: 180,498 out of some 300,000 co-op meters were out September 14 due to the storm, which caused the most far-reaching blackout in Texas history. On September 21, only 17,579 meters were still off-line—less than 10 percent of the total outages. By September 25, all co-ops…