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Energy-Saving Tips Cards
Download our hot weather energy-saving tips cards and reduce electricity costs as well as protect the environment.
No Cost
- Preheat cooking equipment correctly. Preheat cooking equipment no longer and at no higher setting than the manufacturer's recommendation.
Good Investment
- Install an insulated dishwasher. Replace a 10- to 20-year-old conventional dishwasher with an insulated model and save up to $500 annually. Insulated tanks reduce stand-by or idle energy consumption. A booster heater spends several hours per day consuming energy in a "ready-to-use" mode. Insulated tanks can better maintain an outgoing sanitizing water temperature at all times, thus, reducing stand-by energy consumption.
- Purchase insulated cooking equipment whenever possible (e.g., fryers, ovens, coffee machines). Insulation retains more heat in the equipment.
- Replace conventional gas fryers with infrared gas fryers or high-efficiency atmospheric gas fryers and save up to $400/fryer annually.
- Replace old, high-volume kitchen sprayers with high-velocity, low-flow models, and save up to $1,000 a year in hot water costs.