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Do Space Heaters Save Money on Heating Bills?

Last Updated January 16, 2025

A space heater can save you money on your winter electric bill, but only if you use it wisely. If you’re using space heaters to just heat the room you’re using? Yes. Running multiple space heaters simultaneously to heat your entire house? Your electric bill may increase significantly.

Summary: Space heaters are a great way to warm a single room in your home instead of adjusting your thermostat. But they are an inefficient way to heat your entire house. Make sure to size the heater properly; you’ll need 10 watts of heating power for every square foot of the room you are heating.

Texas Electricity Shopping Statistics – Annual Review 2024

Since deregulation began in Texas in 2002, many Texans have had a choice in their electricity provider. In fact, over 85% of Texans live in an area with electricity choice.

What choices did consumers make in 2024? In our first annual electricity shopping review, we’ll reveal price trends, what plans consumers picked, and Texas electricity shopping statistics.

What Uses the Most Electricity in a Home?

If you’re looking to save on your electricity bill, the first step is knowing what uses the most electricity in a home. Understand your usage and you’ll know how to make energy saving (and money saving) changes.

How to Keep Warm in a Winter Power Outage

Everyone knows about Texas summers. Hot, hot and more hot. We hit records in 2023 and 2024, both in temperature levels and duration of the heat.

Fewer think about Texas’ winter extremes. But as a former PUCT staff member told us, “The Texas grid is much more fragile in response to winter weather than it is to summer weather. Be prepared.”

Who Invented Electricity? From Static Electricity to Today’s Electric Grid

You’ve heard about Thomas Edison and his lightbulb, as well as Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite experiment. And you may even think they invented electricity. But electricity as a concept and as a modern convenience has a more complex history extending over multiple centuries.

Purchasing Business Electricity: Energy Procurement Strategy

What’s your energy procurement strategy? For most small business owners, this is just another item that they purchase for their business. You mark the calendar to shop for your next contract, but may give very little thought to other aspects of it.

Here are four things to think about for your energy procurement strategy, to get the best commercial electricity price for your business.

Oncor Outage Map: When Will Power be Restored?

When the lights are out in the Dallas and Fort Worth area, the most important question is, when will power be back on?

In this article, you’ll find the link for the Oncor power outage map, how to report your power outage, and how to find out when your lights will be back on. We’ll also review how to stay informed of potential storm damage and power outages near you.

Calculating How Many Watts a Refrigerator Uses

Ask any household, and they’ll tell you that a refrigerator is the center of their kitchen. It’s also one of the appliances driving your electricity bill according to the EIA, accounting for 6-7% of your household power usage. How much electricity does your refrigerator use, and just how much is it costing you? Let’s find out.

ElectricityPlans Named to the 20th Annual Aggie 100, Honored as Fastest-Growing Company

Thanks to the support of our customers and partners, on October 4, 2024, ElectricityPlans.com was among the top 100 companies from around the world selected for the 20^th annual Aggie 100^TM which honors the fastest growing companies owned by former students of Texas A&M University.

A copy of our press release is below!

What’s Driving Electricity Demand in Texas?

Summer electricity peak demand in Texas is expected to grow nearly 80% in the next 10 years, from 85,464 MW in 2023 to a projected 153,230 MW in 2033. And no, electric vehicles aren’t the cause.

According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the entity responsible for managing the Texas grid, the three factors driving electricity demand in Texas (in order of impact) are:

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