{"id":9034,"date":"2012-06-29T00:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2012-05-31T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T16:30:31","slug":"saving-on-pool-energy-costs-adds-to-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/saving-on-pool-energy-costs-adds-to-the-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving on Pool Energy Costs Adds to the Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/collage2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9035\" title=\"collage2\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/collage2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Researchers have studied pool pump energy use and found that it is the second largest user of electricity for the typical home, averaging 4,200 kWh of electricity each year. Pool pumps can amount to $1 or more a day based on current electricity rates in Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LCEC recommends setting your thermostat no higher than 84 degrees, which uses approximately six to eight kW per hour of run time. Each degree higher adds about 8-12 percent of your energy costs. You can also cut costs by lowering the thermostat to 70 degrees when the pool will be unused for three or four days. Less energy is utilized to reheat a pool for a weekend or special occasion than to maintain a constant temperature all week.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Shielding your pool from wind helps reduce temperature loss. Winds above three to five miles per hour can lower the pool temperature significantly, and a seven-mile-per-hour wind can increase a pool\u2019s heat loss by 300 percent. The use of shrubs, trees, or fences can provide an effective windbreaker.<\/li>\n<li>Using a quality pool cover when the pool is not in use can reduce heat loss by more than 50 percent. It has also been estimated that a pool cover can cut water evaporation in half. Covers keep the water clean and extend the life of the chemicals in the pool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact your pool and spa specialist for to learn more about pool pump and heating information. Be sure to have a maintenance check-up on your pool and spa heaters annually. The cost is minimal and the service will keep your heater working efficiently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have studied pool pump energy use and found that it is the second largest user of electricity for the typical home, averaging 4,200 kWh of electricity each year. Pool&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}