Lowes recently announced an October promotion focusing on 31 days to save energy, promoting a product each day of the month. So far they cover some of the same topics as here - lighting and power strips. But you can bet there will be a focus on appliances and other bigger ticket items. Hopefully they will tie in some discounts to make this worthwhile.
My biggest concern is they will promote energy savings over good economical sense and being a good citizen of the planet. One of the focuses of Home Power Saver is to attempt, when possible, to make it clear when a project makes financial sense through tools like our payback calculator and power savings calculator. And if it can't be quantified, at least the considerations involved in a purchasing a product or embarking on a project should be discussed.
One factor that is too often overlooked is that when an appliance is replaced, that old appliance must go somewhere - and hopefully not the county landfill! I am planning a number of upcoming articles about choosing new appliances to save money, but the focus is primarily for those who were planning to replace one already.
However, there are certain situations where a new appliance does save so much energy that it is cost effective to replace a perfectly good older appliance. In those cases please use Craig's List or Freecycle to get rid of your older appliance.
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