Energy-Efficiency Tools

Booklets filled with everyday energy-saving tips; download them free of charge.

Valuable tips to help you create greater comfort and improve energy management in your home.

Easy-to-use home energy savings tool designed to help you identify the best ways to save energy in your home.

Calculates how much you can save by replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs).

Sponsored by Iowa's electric cooperatives, this Web site can help you increase your home's comfort, safety and efficiency. You'll find energy-saving tips; information on making energy-smart choices for heating and cooling equipment, appliances and a wide variety of other electric products; and a list of installation and service contractors in your area.

Interactive site with game that helps kids analyze their home's energy efficiency; information on saving energy for adults too.

With a year's worth of utility bills in hand, calculate your home's energy efficiency in about five minutes.

Pledge to change at least one lightbulb in your home with an ENERGY STAR® qualified one, and gain access to special offers from manufacturers of lighting equipment.

Find special offers, credits or rebates on appliances, electronics, heating and cooling equipment and other qualified products from ENERGY STAR® partners.

Time to replace your refrigerator — or get rid of the old one in your garage or basement? Find out how much energy it's wasting.

Locate home builders and developers who build ENERGY STAR® qualified new homes, electric co-ops that offer special incentives, home energy raters that can verify the energy efficiency of a home and lenders that offer energy-efficient mortgages.

Several calculators to help you evaluate your home's energy use and need for energy-efficiency improvements.

Investigate the value of do-it-yourself and professional home energy audits.

Estimate the energy consumption of appliances to determine if it makes sense to invest in new equipment.