The modern house or the apartment are literally stuffed with electric household appliances, each of which consumes considerable quantity of the electric power. It in turn leads to very impressive accounts for electricity. Experts and just national handymen developed several recommendations how to save it is possible to save the electric power in the apartment. Besides economy of own means such approach positively affects an internal microclimate of the room.
Ways to save the electric power
Methods of economy of electricity are simple and clear, but for this reason many people do not attach them significance and neglect. Folk remedies how to save the electric power in the apartment, concern first of all reasonable expenditure and usual care for electric devices:
- Replacement of ordinary glow lamps by energy saving lighting fixtures will give significant economy. Without looking, at higher price, the benefit when using energy saving lamps is obvious – unlike glow lamps they do not heat up, their energy consumption is spent only for lighting. Besides, service life at new lamps is three times more.
- Purity – pledge not only health, but also economy. Regular clarification of bulbs, plafonds of lighting fixtures and windows will increase the level of lighting of the apartment. Dusty bulbs give on average 20% less light. The same can be told about plafonds and windowpanes.
- Warming and energy saving screens are capable to reduce significantly energy consumption at electric heating of the apartment. Through windows about 50% of heat of the room can leave.
- Switching off of unnecessary household appliances – one of imperceptible factors as it is possible to save the electric power. Any electric device which is switched on in network and being in a waiting mode continues to consume the electric power therefore after completion of work microwave ovens, washing machines and other types of household appliances it is better to switch off.
- Elimination of excess resistance also reduces energy consumption level. The more various T-connectors and extenders, the losses of the electric power are higher.
To cardinal methods how to save the electric power in the apartment, such measures as replacement of old conducting, a right choice and use of power-intensive devices belong. Being going to buy the new fridge or the washing machine, it is worth paying attention to an energy consumption class. Devices of the class A+ and A + + – the most modern and favorable in respect of profitability. Full load washing or the dishwasher also the drive to excess power consumption.
At installation of the fridge it is necessary to consider requirements of the instruction:
- not to have it near heating devices – gas or electric stoves, heating devices;
- not to put hot pans in the fridge;
- it is timely to defreeze cameras.
There is one simple rule how to save the electric power on the boiler, this turning on of the device on the minimum temperature condition (45 degrees). The temperature of heating of water in the boiler is higher, the it is more than loss of heat through walls.
Modern and effective method of economy of the electric power is replacement of the ordinary counter on two-tariff. By calculations of experts of expense for installation and lawful design of the two-tariff counter pay off for 1 year. Advantages of such decision can use for many years – the difference of day and night electricity rates in various regions differs, but when using power-intensive devices (washing and the dishwasher, heaters, the boiler) economy can be very notable.