ELECTRICITY SAVING

Leave the dark cycle dark- that hour on you suggested is too stressful.
Want to save electric? Look at your habits. Put your TV and computer on a power strip, and shut it off when not in use (=ghost draw). Your computer draws some serious juice.
To cool your house instead of ac running all the time, open your windows at dusk and get fans going. Close them and draw the curtains at sunrise. This is how it's been done for centuries before electricity.
Do your laundry a tthe laundromat.
Swithc all your lights to CFLs .

one of the best and easy ways without having to cut out alot of ur everyday stuff i.e a/c being a main one is to put a switch on ur hot waterheater line where u can turn it on and off and only turn it on about a half hr b4 u need hot water and then back off cause ur hot waterheater eats up the "ELECTRICITY" as it stays on as u all should know how a waterheater works it's off and on 24/7 so if u put a switch in so u can turn on and off ur self u will save a bundle

They have a GRAY box at the DYI stores that you set for time of use.
This is just is a heavy duty timmer
Tv,CD,printers all have a hot stand by and use lots of watts just waiting to be turned on.
Replace all your non reading ! lamps with CPF. Note the reading light if you use a CPF your eyes will go bonkers.
The new Califorina law that wants to replance all incand. bulbs with Cpf . The problem is frequency blinking of 60/50 cycles, and houses will need to be rewired so the lights in one lamp will need to be off cycle. Or use a converter to make them not blink.
One other problem with CPF is the recycling of the bulbs.
Note in most homes lights are left on for the booogie man, This retired worker of Monsters Inc.:thumbsup: is still around. Thats why most people leave the lights on.