Comments on: Gulf Power Offers Hot Weather Energy Savings Tips http://www.northescambia.com/2011/06/gulf-power-offers-hot-weather-energy-savings-tips-2 Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:33:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Rogers http://www.northescambia.com/2011/06/gulf-power-offers-hot-weather-energy-savings-tips-2/comment-page-1#comment-90278 Jeff Rogers Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:10:34 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=57883#comment-90278 Answers to your questions: Lighter colors reflect and reject light and heat better than darker colors. Also, the thicker the drape the better. About the ceiling fans: only use them when you're in the room. Ceiling fans work by cooling your skin by air contact. So treat them like a light...turn them off when you leave a room. You can find many more EarthCents tips at GulfPower.com. There are also 25 brand new EarthCents programs, many with rebates to help you save on energy efficiency. You can also find those at GulfPower.com. Jeff Rogers, Gulf Power Answers to your questions:
Lighter colors reflect and reject light and heat better than darker colors. Also, the thicker the drape the better.

About the ceiling fans: only use them when you’re in the room. Ceiling fans work by cooling your skin by air contact. So treat them like a light…turn them off when you leave a room. You can find many more EarthCents tips at GulfPower.com. There are also 25 brand new EarthCents programs, many with rebates to help you save on energy efficiency. You can also find those at GulfPower.com.

Jeff Rogers, Gulf Power

]]> By: Betty J http://www.northescambia.com/2011/06/gulf-power-offers-hot-weather-energy-savings-tips-2/comment-page-1#comment-90166 Betty J Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:41:31 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=57883#comment-90166 I was always told that darker drapes keep a room cooler by blocking sunlight..Above says use lighter drapes.... I was always told that darker drapes keep a room cooler by blocking sunlight..Above says use lighter drapes….

]]> By: tony rae http://www.northescambia.com/2011/06/gulf-power-offers-hot-weather-energy-savings-tips-2/comment-page-1#comment-90131 tony rae Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:55:13 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=57883#comment-90131 2 Questions about mobile homes, If the ceiling fan is going counter clock wise is the colder air really being pulled from the floor to the top if theres a vaulted ceiling? Is it really worth running it all day? THANK YOU! 2 Questions about mobile homes, If the ceiling fan is going counter clock wise
is the colder air really being pulled from the floor to the top if theres a vaulted ceiling?
Is it really worth running it all day?

THANK YOU!

]]> By: Brian http://www.northescambia.com/2011/06/gulf-power-offers-hot-weather-energy-savings-tips-2/comment-page-1#comment-90057 Brian Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:24:49 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=57883#comment-90057 I got a way that Gulf Power can help customers save on their power bills -- Gulf Power needs to quit asking for rate hikes all the time. As a matter of fact they should be lowering rates and should have been lowering rates for the last year or year and a half since input costs are still very low compared to two or three years ago. I got a way that Gulf Power can help customers save on their power bills — Gulf
Power needs to quit asking for rate hikes all the time. As a matter of fact they should be lowering rates and should have been lowering rates for the last year or year and a half since input costs are still very low compared to two or three years ago.

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