Macbook battery life on yosemite

Hi,
I updated my macbook air to yosemite and battery life has reduced. I just use word and safari for my work. No special softwares. Can anyone tell me the solution to this?
Thanks

So here is an update: I've followed the article posted by OGELTHORPE (Thank you!). What I actually did is 1. Reset the SMC and 2. Reset the PRAM (MacBook Air SMC and PRAM reset).
What I've seen so far: Once I did the reset, I would guess that the system needed to re-calcualte again the battery charge. Initially after I disconnected from power, it started with a measurement from under 3:30h. After 45 minutes running on battery it is showing again 8:45h remaining @ 93% charge. What I noticed is that every time I put the laptop to sleep this repeats - starting with some low time measurement and slowly climbing. I think that this could be a bug in the software and the battery charge calculation method is somehow not working properly. I wonder after those resets if the OS needs to get into a couple of battery charge cycles and the battery is calibrated again?
I don't recall having this issue with the last year's release of Mavericks.
I hope someone from Apple sees this and address this with the next OS X update.

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So here is an update: I've followed the article posted by OGELTHORPE (Thank you!). What I actually did is 1. Reset the SMC and 2. Reset the PRAM (MacBook Air SMC and PRAM reset).
What I've seen so far: Once I did the reset, I would guess that the system needed to re-calcualte again the battery charge. Initially after I disconnected from power, it started with a measurement from under 3:30h. After 45 minutes running on battery it is showing again 8:45h remaining @ 93% charge. What I noticed is that every time I put the laptop to sleep this repeats - starting with some low time measurement and slowly climbing. I think that this could be a bug in the software and the battery charge calculation method is somehow not working properly. I wonder after those resets if the OS needs to get into a couple of battery charge cycles and the battery is calibrated again?
I don't recall having this issue with the last year's release of Mavericks.
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Hi all,
Since upgrading to Yosemite I have noticed that I only get about 5 hours of battery life, even when just running Safari and Mail. I have checked the battery life and it is reporting as good. I have also reset PRAM and SMC but that didn't seem to change anything. Here is a dump from EtreCheck but I couldn't find anything obvious there either. Does anyone have any ideas or is this battery life as good as to be expected?
EtreCheck version: 2.1.6 (109)
Report generated 16 January 2015 10:03:43 pm AEDT
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Cheers, Jason

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Joe Henson wrote:
To confirm:
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This step is not in the instructions nor is it needed with lithium ion batteries. Just let it charge fully for two hours. If the battery is not at 100% and not charging just let the MacBook run on battery until it drops below 93% and then let it charge.
Charge fully (not using the computer during this part of the process)
You can use the computer while doing this. It will not hurt anything.
Run for at least two hours while plugged in (have been using it at this time)
Then run on batteries untill it goes to sleep
Leave alone for a least 5 hours
Fully recharge
Once the charge cycle starts you can use the computer as long as it is plugged in. Do not unplug until it is fully charged or you will interrupt the charge cycle.
The life of the battery depends on all the things you have turned on and what you are doing. Watching movings and having bluetooth and airport running will affect battery life. Turn off anything your not using and see if that helps. One and a half hours does seem a tad short mine usually last at least two hours and that is pretty mach having everything running.
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Problem description:
The battery has been draining super fast - 4hrs battery life now compared to earlier 8hrs.
EtreCheck version: 2.2 (132)
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I've bought a Macbook Pro (13-inch, mid 2012, non-retina, OSX Yosemite 10.10, i7 processor) 3 weeks ago and I was wondering how long the battery usually lasts and what I can do to increase battery life.
Currently it only lasts up to 5 hours, despite it promising 9 hours of battery life. This is mostly while using Google Chrome and iTunes. It feels like I'm recharging it constantly and it already has been through 23 battery cycles - at this rate my battery would only last 3 years which would be shorter than my previous laptop did and I expect more from something that cost twice as much as my previous one.
So am I doing something wrong? Is there something broken or is max 5 hours of battery life normal?
With my previous laptop I also used to take out the battery and use only the adaptor to save my battery, but as I can't remove the battery of this laptop I was wondering if leaving the adaptor in while working at home so it remains at 100% would be a good idea or would that actually be worse?
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