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Originally Posted by LikeLakes
(1) Electric breaker in the fuse box. Possibly a service switch right next to it. . . . Warming a few pots of water on the stove will use more energy than full days of the hot water heater. A good quality, well insulated hot water heater doesn't use much energy to keep water up to temp, the energy use is when you use hot water and it has to bring cold up to temp. So if it were me, I'd minimize hot water use with cooler showers etc. but leave the hot water heater on.
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I think you forgot to mention the valves on the water heater?
I'm one person, so washing the dishes takes at most a small kettle of hot water mixed with cold. Literally two minutes on the stove for the whole day's dishes. That's really the only hot water I need in the summer.