- Replace incandescent light bulbs with modern energy-saving bulbs can reduce the average consumption of electricity in the apartment in 2 times. All expenses could be recovered in less than a year.
Modern energy-saving lamp is 10 thousand per hour, while the bulb is an average of 1.5 thousand per hour, Iess than 6-7 times. But while it costs about 2 times more. Compact fluorescent lamp with voltage of 11 W replaces incandescent lamp with the voltage of 60 watt. Costs recovered in less than a year, and it works during 3-4 years. - Do not leave equipment in a mode of "stand by" (standby), please use the buttons to enable / disable on the equipment itself, or turns them off from the wall outlet. Turning off unused devices from the network (eg, TV, VCR, a stereo system) will reduce electricity consumption to an average of 300 kW • h per year and save about 5000 rubles.
TV with the middle screen size with a diagonal of 20-21 inches in the standby mode the consumption is 75 mA (milliamps), voltage is 220 V (volts), and that is why, power consumption by Ohm's law P = I • U (power is watts, current is in amperes and the voltage is in volts) for our sleeping TV: P = 0,075 x 220 = 16, 5 Tues.
If you watch TV during 6 hours per day, its consumption in standby mode is 297 Watt • h a day, and for a month –it is 8910, or nearly 9 kW • h. Similar calculations for the music center for almost is about 8 kW • h per month, for VCR - nearly 4 kW • h per month. Totally, only 3 devices are almost 21 kW • h per month. - Positively affects the application of voltage stabilizer. Equipping TV by stabilizers, energy can reduce consumption in 2-2, 3 times.
- Charger for mobile phone left switched into a power outlet, heats, even if there is no phone. This is because the device still consumes electricity. 95% of energy is wasted when the charger is plugged into an outlet continuously.
- If you choose dishes that do not correspond to the size of electric cookers, it lost 5-10% of energy. To save the electric power, you must be applied t the bottom of the dishes, which is equal to the diameter of the burner or slightly exceeds it. Dishes with a curved bottom may lead to over-expenditure of electricity to 40-60%.
- When cooking, it is desirable to close the pan with a lid, since the rapid evaporation of water lengthens the cooking time about 20-30%. After boiling food, it is desirable to move to low-temperature cooking mode.
- It is important to promptly remove scum from the electric kettle. Scum formed as a result of repeated heating and boiling water and has a low thermal conductivity that is why the water in the pan with scum heated slowly.
- The main condition for the rational exploitation of washing machines is not to exceed the norm of maximum load of laundry. Should be avoided and partial loading washing machine: variance of electricity in this case may amount to 10-15%. It is recommended each time to sort clothes before washing, and in the case of weak or moderate pollution to refuse from pre-washing. If the wrong washing program is chosen, electricity rang is up to 30%.
- For save a little bit when ironing, do not iron over dried underwear.
- When using a vacuum cleaner at third-filled bag reduces collection of the dust affect’s absorption of 40%, respectively, for the same amount increases consumption of electricity consumption.
- Fridge should be located in the coolest place of kitchen, preferably near the outer wall, but not close to the stove. If you put a fridge in the room where the temperature reaches 30 ? C, then energy consumption will double.
Opening fridge should be minimized as possible, to avoid leakage of cold. Before you are going to put hot food in the refrigerator, it should get cold to room temperature.
Do not forget to defrost the freezer in the formation of ice in it. A thick layer of ice affects the cooling to frozen foods and increases the power consumption. - Do not neglect the natural light. Light curtains, light wallpaper and ceiling, clean the windows, a moderate number of flowers on the windowsills increase the illumination of apartment and office and reduce the use of fixtures. Note that the dusty windows reduce natural light by 30%.
- Radiators will effectively heat the room, unless they install the heat-screens and not closing them with thick curtains.
- When using the wrong selection of lighting and the use of obsolete electrical engineering overruns electricity is 50%.
