your customers receive under the federal government over the rising cost of energy hot? If so, suggests buying a ceiling fan.

Although use electricity to operate ceiling fans do, experts say the amount of money homeowners can save substantially on air-conditioning with a fan outweigh the costs of operating the fan.

“ceiling fans provide year-round comfort and efficiency,” said Barbara Wright, Product Manager ceiling fan

Westinghouse.

Wright says the cost of operating a ceiling fan depends on the frequency with which they started and how the cost to the company, but on average, she said a standard ceiling fan costs less use of a light bulb.

Experts

ceiling fans reduce energy consumption, say in two ways.

First of fans circulate the air in the room and prevents the accumulation of hot air to the ceiling.

“A ceiling fan helps compensate for the temperature in the room so that your air conditioner does not work so hard to cool area,” said Scot Wetmore, marketing director at Dan’s Fan City, a retailer ceiling fan with over 50 branches in the United States.

When are the people in the room, “said Wetmore Ceiling fans have the advantage that people are more fresh.

” cool ceiling fans through evaporation, such as a cold wind, he said, adding that made the fans as about 6 degrees cooler in your house, it was the feeling is in reality, you can use your thermostat 6 degrees higher. After Progress Energy, an energy company that services North and South Carolina and Florida, home and apartment owners can save 70-10 percent of their cooling costs for every degree above the 78th

and ceiling fans are not only saving money in the summer, either. Ceiling fans run counter-clockwise in summer, but the ceiling fan manufacturers often include reverse switches for ceiling fans, and also with operating the fan clockwise during winter, house and apartment owners to lower your heating costs.

[changing the direction of the fan] makes the air column to the ceiling, and what it does is it causes air currents to the ceiling and the wall and the wall and contributes to the thermal limit of income to redistribute. To collapse it helps your heating costs by recycling the heat, “says Wetmore.

When a ceiling fan, a lamp, said Wright customers to maximize energy savings by replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps.

Wright said homeowners should also purchase ENERGY STAR ceiling fan. “They are about 50 percent more efficient than conventional fan / light units with an estimated energy savings for a year,” Wright said.

According to the website of the Environmental Protection Agency Web Energy Star Energy Star Fans ceiling move air up to 20 percent more efficient than conventional models due to the blade tip and the engine design, and the fans are ENERGY STAR ceiling lights are about 50 percent more efficient than conventional light kits, and they produce heat by about 75 percent less.

Several manufacturers make ceiling fan ceiling fan to meet Energy Star requirements of government, including Casablanca, Kichler, Minka Aire, and Savoy.

Savoy ceiling fans