This may be due to additional or worthless usage of electric appliances. Generally, an American family would consume about $1500-$2000 on power bills. If your bill in not in between these figures then you will be considered as a regular householder, which utilizes electricity unnecessarily. The reason is that are not required to spend to the extent of $2000 a year for energy. 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. We should use the garage heating system only when necessary. Finally, the electronic devices whether it is our TV, stereo, lights or any other devices that use electricity we should make sure to switch them off when they are not in use. You can easily maintain a comfy temperature level in your house just by selecting materials wisely. Design of house is another thing to be considered. You can hire an architect having good experience of designing buildings with significant energy efficiency. Today's proficient technologies make it possible and easy for architects to integrate both conventional styles and latest functions in house designing. Beware of the biggest shareholder of your electricity, your heating system. Before going out anywhere, keep them low or turn them off. Why should you pay for something that isn't doing any good to you? If you are reluctant to do so because of the chilly weather and you don't want a 'cold welcome', set up a heating system with an inbuilt thermostat, which can stabilize the temperature automatically and even have timers in them. Another important feature of solar energy is that you have no risk. For using solar energy at home you have no need of wiring which is sometime very complicated. If you want to run your garden lights or other home lights with the help of solar energy then there are very less wiring which can easily powered your items. Using a fireplace to warm up the house is quite cheaper than using the heating systems. Maintaining - Keeping our homes well maintained gives us a lot of savings. We should invest in energy saving devices that keep our homes arm at the same time keeps our heating system work as efficiently as possible.