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Are you using too much electricity? How can you tell if you measure Don'T use?
If you are trying to save electricity, start measurement. That's my first tip for how to save electricity. Once you know what you're using for each light, appliance, or other device in your home, you can easily find ways to reduce waste.
I know. Our family of four was the simple use of a third as much as comparable families in our area, reduced to one sixth. We measure our electricity use, and from there it was easy to find and eliminate waste. Most of our friends are surprised when we tell them how low are our electricity bills.
We had a solar engineer to evaluate the place in 2006, when we were thinking about installing solar panels to generate our own power. The engineer said we really should reduce our energy consumption by 50% in the first place, since often cheaper to save energy than to generate more money from solar panels. However, only used 11 kilowatt hours (kwh) per day, I said. Well, then he said, should be cut to 6 kwh.
This surprised us – already use far less electricity than our neighbors. Can we reduce other 50%?
The engineer assured us we would find a way, if we measure our diligent use. We sold a Kill A Watt meter, which measures the power consumption of devices electrical appliances such as watts used for a light, toaster, or a fan, or kilowatt-hours over time, a chest freezer or electric dryer.
Measured or estimated energy consumption of all lights, appliances, or other electrical appliance in our house. The furnace fan, air conditioning central, window fans, kitchen and bathroom fans. Computer and peripherals. TV, DVD and VCR. To measure the lights can only read the power of light that appears in the bulb, and estimate the amount of light is on every day. For electronics, as fans and as the power to the Kill A Watt meter and make A similar calculation. For the refrigerator and freezer, was used to measure the kilowatt hour meter on a three-day interval, calculated then by kwh day. For the washer and dryer kwh per charge was measured and the estimated number of loads per year.
Once we had our numbers and can calculate estimated consumption of electricity per year, went to our accounts last year. Surprisingly, our assumption was hit.
Our next step was to compared to large energy users, and many smaller devices that are constantly running, but do not do much good.
Users higher energy in terms of kilowatt-hours per year was a wine cellar, freezer, refrigerator, and lighting, with a combined total of over 1,600 kwh per year. energy users that provide little or no benefits were things such as computer peripherals (cable modem, a router, a printer uses twice a month or less), and a coffee machine, bread maker, and other devices with LED or LCD clock, which was not connected when in use. In Together, these phantom loads uses more than 300 kwh per year.
Our first cut was the cellar. We decided it was not environmentally justifiable to use so much energy as found in 500 pounds of coal to maintain a functioning winery, so it only keeps the natural temperature of the wine cellar. The second tip I learned about saving electricity is that it has challenged to redefine itself as a luxury needs, and give them up. Other requirements call you may choose to treat as a luxury can be air conditioning, refrigeration of the beer cellar, and any device that our grandparents were very good on the outside.
A simple check of the temperature of our energy STAR refrigerator revealed that someone had accidentally turned the freezer thermostat down, so that the motor run continuously and maintain a in the freezer too low. Now check out our fridge and freezer a month, to prevent accidental loss of electricity for refrigeration.
Then off our chest freezer, which were no longer used long ago. It was only halfway, and much of its contents had been there for a year or more. Once upon a time retains much of our own food, but had left some years before, but for some reason it had quit the freezer. When eating, composting, or the passage of food to the refrigerator, we added 360 kwh per year in our electricity savings, which leads me to the third lesson I learned: Challenge your own ideas about what they consider appropriate.
Lighting offers many opportunities to reduce energy consumption. Here There are two important points about how to save energy in lighting: lights use less (turn them off, use less lights in a fixture, the regulatory use switches, the use of natural light), and install more energy efficient lights, such as compact fluorescent and LED lights. It is probable reduction of 40 kwh / year of our lighting by taking such actions.
The items that use a few watts while doing no useful work is easy to use. We put the computer and peripherals from a power bar, which went off when the equipment was not being used. Ten watts may sound like pocket change, but multiplied by a half dozen devices and for 24 hours, 365 days a year, and adds to a package. We were using 180 kwh / year in the peripheral and reduced to 15 kWh / year. The video, DVD player, TV, coffee maker, and other devices with electronic watches using another 120 kWh / year. So this is the fourth thing I learned about saving electricity: turn off everything not immediately needed. Any device that has an AC adapter, or control can be activated by remote, must be completely turned off when not needed. Anything with a digital clock should draw a small amount of electricity to maintain the projection of clock. This could only add up to half a watt, but is usually in the range of 3.1 watts (27.9 kwh / year). This category includes heating and CA systems when you're in the heating or cooling season – let him off the circuit breaker.
As we have addressed issues large and small, our electricity consumption was reduced from 11 kWh / day to 8 kwh / day, a quarter of the typical use of our area. And as big spenders cut energy deal with small energy wasters suddenly made a bigger difference.
For example, our range was only 5% of electricity consumption original, but after our first energy-saving measures, is used for 7.5% of the new total. So we changed our cooking habits. We started use our crock pot again, and the oven less. We became more diligent about measuring water before boiling for tea. No more opening the oven door every three check minutes baking. This brings me to my fifth power saving tip:
To further enhance the bar. You can always find more ways to cut.
Keep the setting more ambitious savings targets. You'd be surprised how little energy it takes to live a happy and pleasant. Daily meter readings for confirm that its use is declining as expected, or remain level, or starting to rise.
I I can assure you, once you start measuring and cutting, and see how to lower their electric bills go, you'll be hooked, like me. Who said that energy savings can not be fun?
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