Every little effort helps to turn your company greener. Here are 10 things you can do this year to help your business save energy.

1.  Install occupancy sensors to your restrooms, offices, conference rooms, break rooms and copier/printer rooms.  Energy Savings: 15-90%.

2. Upgrade general area lighting to task lighting. Energy Savings:  40-60%.

3. Replace incandescent lamps with compact fluorescent fixtures. Save 10-25%.

4. Replace or retrofit all outdated T-12 fluorescent fixtures. Energy Savings:  10-25%.

5. Upgrade old water heaters with on-demand, tankless systems. Energy Savings:  40-50%.

6.. Repair leaking hot water faucets. Energy Savings: 15-25%.

7. Use a setback thermostat to save energy during the off-hours, 8 degrees above occupied cooling temperature and 8 degrees below occupied heating temperature during off hours. Energy Savings: 10%.

8. Put Vending Misers on refrigerated beverage vending machines. This is a device that shuts off the machine when no one is around, without effecting beverage temperature, and requires no machine modifications. Energy Savings: 30-50%

9. Dim lights in areas lit by sunny windows. Energy Savings: 15-50%

10. Turn off PCs, printers and copiers at the end of the day. Switch to laptops and save 75%! Energy Savings: 20-75%.