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Save money, energy and the environment

Your home provides many opportunities to make positive energy-saving decisions. Our Power Smart Green Guides offer you the in-depth tips, with related Buyer's Guide and resources information, to help you shrink your energy bills and your environmental impact.

Top 10 tips

We've drawn up a Top 10 list of tips to help you and your family to conserve energy and reduce your impact on the environment.

1. Get an energy audit and follow through with improvements

2. Draft Proof Your Home

3. Turn it off

4. Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps

5. Install automatic lighting controls

6. Buy green electronics

7. Put a freeze on inefficient refrigeration

8. Use less energy to wash your laundry

9. Reuse and recycle old electronic equipment

10. Use less energy to dry your laundry

Power Smart Tip Sheets

Energy Smarts around your home [PDF, 1.4 Mb]

Building a new home? Make it Power Smart [PDF, 160 Kb]

Choosing the right contractor [PDF, 182 Kb]

No-cost and low-cost tips

Enter your dwelling type and heating type into our tips tool to check out no-cost, low-cost tips options, including information on how much money you could save.

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Power Smart Green Guides

There are so many opportunities to conserve energy and resources inyour home and business. The Power Smart Green Guides give you the background, steps and further resources to make positive conservation choices today.

Heating Guide

Heating and cooling your home accounts for about half of your energy bill, making it a single largest energy expense for most homes in B.C. Improving your home's heating is a sound long-term investment: it's low-risk, it pays dividends through lower heating costs, it improves your quality of life and it reduces your environmental impact. Learn More

Reduce light pollution,
save money, see the stars

B.C. star-gazers couldn’t be happier to hear that BC Hydro Power Smart has launched a campaign to fight light pollution in this province.

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Save big on renovations

Now’s a great time for home renovations, with both the provincial government offering significant incentives for home renovation projects – including energy-saving upgrades.