v and stereo system from the main switch, because they consume a significant amount of electricity even in standby mode. When you have charged your mobile phone or any other device, pull the switch out of the socket as passive chargers use electricity. Beware of the biggest shareholder of your electricity, your heating system. One way to know whether our basements have leaks or not, is to look for spider webs. If there are webs, there are leaks! We should not turn on our garage heating system all the time. In fact we can always heat up minutes before going even if we spend a lot of time there. In this way, we can save up a lot of energy. The fridge will consume more electricity to maintain its inner temperature as cooling rushes out if the door remains open for long time. Water heating system costs about 104.1 billion kWh of electricity use. You can have cold water showers as billion of people across the globe are utilizing it. Try to use other alternatives of electricity to heat the water required for any purpose. There are special types of solar energy bulb available in market. They bulbs have special darkness sensors in it which sense the darkness and turn on automatically. You have no need to turn on these solar energy bulbs manually. If there is a light then these bulbs are turn off automatically. The use of solar energy bulb is very easy. Always, turn off all the extra lights, stereo and television when not in use. Also, turn the lights off before leaving the room even for few minutes. Thermostat of the refrigerator should be reduced as it utilizes about 20% of the total household electric use. You can save about 90% of power consumption by washing the clothes with cold water instead of hot water. It's the Sun whose blazing heat is strong enough to run all machines of your house. Developed countries are now producing solar panels on large scale and are encouraging commercial and residential units to install solar panels in their buildings. These panels can store energy and are powerful enough to keep a house functional at night too.