I was in a seminar and heard the presenter say something I am not able to understand. The statement was that if you use a higher gauge wire it would help reduce your electricity bill. Since I was not an official guest of this seminar I was not really in a place to ask how this is possible.

I doubt that this is entirely true as I would have heard it by now. What I am trying to figure out is if there might be some truth to this. I want to know if this is true and to what extent. I believe that the reason on why you would want to use a higher gauge wire is for safety rather than lowering your electric bill.

Currently here is my argument to why this might not be possible. So what happens when using thinner gauge wires is the wire resistance increases and when the resistance increases this creates a small current limiting effect like how you use a current-limiting resistor to an LED. So you could say that using thinner wires will save your electric consumption. I mean at higher load the wire gets hot and would not be safe to handle.

Any thoughts?