Energy Efficient Week
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Energy Efficient Week, encourages Floridians to
invest in energy efficientproducts by providing relief
from sales tax for approved products and appliances up
to $1,500.
Qualifying energy efficient products include a
dishwasher, clothes washer, air conditioner, ceiling
fan, fluorescent light bulb, dehumidifier, programmable
thermostat, or refrigerator that has been designated
as meeting or exceeding the federal Energy Star Program
energy efficiency requirements and has the Energy Star
label affixed to the product or product packaging.
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The sales tax exemption applies only to items
purchased for noncommercial home or personal use,
and does not apply when the product is purchased for
trade, business, or resale.
How to Start Saving Energy with ENERGY STAR Today!
- Change a light and save a bundle. ENERGY STAR
qualified light bulbs are 75 percent more efficient
than incandescent bulbs. When just one room in every
home is brightened by
ENERGY STAR lighting
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the change will keep over one trillion pounds of
carbon dioxide out of our air.
- Use an
ENERGY STAR qualified programmable thermostat
that
can automatically adjust the temperature of your
home when you are away.
- Upgrade your refrigerator if it is 10 years old
or older. Refrigerators use more energy than any
other appliance in your home, but an
ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerator
uses
about half the energy of a 10-year old conventional
model.
- Consider replacing your room air conditioning
system if it is more than seven years old. Look for
the ENERGY STAR label when you buy and use 20% less
energy than a standard model. If just one household
in 10 bought
ENERGY STAR heating and cooling equipment
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the change would keep over 17 billion pounds of
pollution out of our air.
- Replace your clothes washer with an ENERGY STAR
labeled model when it is time. Clothes washers use
energy to both clean clothes and heat water, so to
save on energy costs, wash your clothes in cooler
water.
ENERGY STAR qualified clothes washers
use 50% less water and 70 % less energy per load;
that's up to $100 every year.
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