{"id":1831,"date":"2018-07-03T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T13:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2019-10-10T22:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:18:45","slug":"how-to-keep-cool-and-be-energy-efficient-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/07\/03\/how-to-keep-cool-and-be-energy-efficient-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Cool and Be Energy Efficient this Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Kaymie Owen, CMP, Communications Manager<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/east-coast-heat-wave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1832\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/east-coast-heat-wave-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/east-coast-heat-wave-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/east-coast-heat-wave-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/east-coast-heat-wave.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCNN is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/03\/us\/heat-wave-wxc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporting<\/a> that nearly 60 million people remain under a heat advisory or warning Tuesday, with scorching temperatures and humidity expected through the Fourth of July. Some places in the East may feel as hot as 100 to 110 degrees when taking into account the humidity and heat Tuesday, with advisories and warnings stretching from central Virginia to eastern Maine\u00a0<sup>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/brandon-miller\">Brandon Miller<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/madison-park\">Madison Park<\/a>, CNN<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Here are some video tips from the Maryland Energy Administration to help keep cool and save money with energy efficiency during the long summer months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/227270263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1154\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/summer-ee-tips-300x238.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/summer-ee-tips-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/summer-ee-tips.png 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClick\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/227270263\">here\u00a0<\/a>to learn what appliance costs you\u00a0big in the summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/227412576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1186\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/skip-the-oven-300x244.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/skip-the-oven-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/skip-the-oven.png 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClick\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/227412576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u00a0<\/a>to see why you need to skip the oven this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/be-a-fan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1188\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/be-a-fan-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/be-a-fan-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/be-a-fan.png 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClick\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/227413835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u00a0<\/a>to see why fans are one of the best ways to keep you personally cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/keep-cool-boy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1190\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/keep-cool-boy-300x235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/keep-cool-boy-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/keep-cool-boy.png 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClick\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/227414180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u00a0<\/a>to see how to keep cool in the final days of the summer season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kaymie Owen, CMP, Communications Manager CNN is reporting that nearly 60 million people remain under a heat advisory or warning Tuesday, with scorching temperatures and humidity expected through the Fourth of July. Some places in the East may feel as hot as 100 to 110 degrees when taking into<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/07\/03\/how-to-keep-cool-and-be-energy-efficient-this-summer\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}