The electricity — to the benefit of the society, but the costs of the kilowatt-hour is gradually increasing, and the supply is becoming increasingly acute and important. What are the measures that can be taken by each of us, and that you save is an extra penny? Please try to understand!
The culture of the use of the devices, and household appliances
To begin with, which practically no one does that — disconnection from the mains chargers, Televisions, and household appliances. A charger left in an outlet continue to be part of, to be appointed by the idle, the current consumption is dependent on the circuitry and power the device. It's all kind of sources of energy, such as a transformer, and a pulse rate. In any modern household appliances such as the microwave oven, the conditioner, the TV, or the TV, the receiver also has the indicators – displays, Leds, and so They also consume battery power, and a power source, for example, when the TV is off, the "remote" continues to operate in the standby mode. The standby state is the state of readiness of the equipment, I expect it to be a signal of the remote control, or set up a time for hours. In this network, there is a lot of research, we collected and averaged the data obtained on the consumption of a certain device, the device is in the standby mode, or a hybrid of them into a single list:
- Satellite receiver, or a receiver of a digital TV — 5.7 M (to 50 kWh/year);
- - Console gaming — 0.7-1 W (8,7 kWh/year);
- - TV, — 0.3-0.5 W (4,4 kWh/year);
- The computer is in sleep mode 3-4 watts (35 kW/year);
- - Monitor — 1W (8,7 kWh/year);
- - Laptop — 0.5 and W - (4,4 kWh/year);
- - Coffee — 1.5 W; (13 kWh/year);
- - Washing machine — 0.1 watts (0.9 kW/year);
- - Air-conditioning — 3-5 W, (44 kWh/year);
- The router (and he is still in a pending mode, not in standby) and 3-5 W, (44 kWh/year).
If, in any case, the numbers are in a special savings, but the amount of work a considerable number of times. In addition to this, a non-used device, that you can leave it connected to the network, there is a risk of ignition and fire it up. So, unplug appliances when not in use. Also, you should not have to have a PC or a laptop all the time. A computer monitor can consume 100 watts or more, even when just idle (and during the game, spending increases and a half a kilowatt), while the laptop is 40-60 watts. By the way, it is already possible to conclude that, if there is no need for a landline device – the laptop will burn a smaller amount of electricity during operation. If we don't need a computer or a laptop, you send it into sleep mode or hibernation mode, then its power consumption will be reduced by a few watts. The same is true for tablets, mobile phones. Web site access statistics show that most of the traffic in the year 2019, – the mobile device. In addition to the size and degree of independence in the note, and profitability. For example, the tablet computer has a low battery 9000 mA/h, voltage of about 3.7 V, which shows that it is the stored up power of up to 33 M/h. The manufacturer claims up to 10 hours of continuous operation, which is also confirmed by the test observers. So what does that mean? The fact that the battery is fully charged, it can last up to 40 to 50 Watts of electricity, depending on the efficiency of the charger and the battery of the tablet during the charging process. This energy is enough for a full day of work or surfing the net, and then as a full-fledged computer, spent two more at a time. It is, in any case, don't advertise to the Apple software from the manufacturer, but just an example. The same can be said for any other device, they differ only in terms of the number of hours worked and the amount of watts it takes to do it. The advantage of a clear need to determine which device is sufficient for the job.
Before leaving, turn off the lights!
If, in the year 2019, it is difficult to say anything about the efficiency of the led, and the lamp will not be superfluous to remind about the need to use efficient lighting system. Forget about night-time lighting-a strong hit on the wallet, even if the use of led lamps. For example, assume that you leave on a night light in the bathroom or in the hallway, what is it? If you're talking about the led lights, the greatest demand is for a light bulb with a capacity of 7-10 watts, the higher the value of the. Before going to bed, you will forget to turn it off, or intentionally left the lights on in a room, and people sleep about 7-8 hours, then, are as follows:
10*8 = 80 watt/hours of the day and night, natural light, and in the year:
80*365=29.2 kWh.
But, if you have the lights in the various rooms, and all of the night? But added to that, this device is in the standby mode, which we talked about above? If you are using incandescent light bulbs – the following numbers are to be multiplied 10-fold. In addition to the neglected light bulbs are not all the people understand, what is the difference between General and local lighting lamps, and chandeliers, there's a twist in hard use. Significantly reduce the cost of the lighting system, if you're using a table, a lamp, and of the General (overhead) lighting to be less bright. This will give you the help of a dimmer, or a breakdown of the lighting in groups. Also, install motion sensors to light in these rooms helps to save money, how to do it, we have talked about in another article.
The counter
The installation of tariff meter for a lot of significantly it helps to save money. There are a number of options – two-zone and three-zone calculation. For example, such tariffs are:
- - For a single-tariff meter is 5.38 p per 1 kW/h.
- For the two-zone price: night (23:00 to 07:00 pm) of 2.29 p per 1 kW/h per day (from 07:00 to 23:00) 6.1 p per 1 kWh;
- For three of the sub-meters the night of 2.29 D, the half of the peak area of the (late in the afternoon and evening from 10.00 to 17.00 and from 21.00 to 23.00) is a 5.38 R, and at peak times (early morning and in the evening from 07:00 to 10:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00) to 7 rubles per 1 kW/h.
Who gets the benefit? Almost everyone who works a day job and a night at home off a Buddha to wash, bathe (if you are using an electric water heater), cooking (if electric stove). Also, many of the sub counter will be reduced by the amount of the over-heating if you own a house or a flat with electric auxiliary heating system, induction of the boiler, the boiler to the Heat Supply from the Heaters, etc.). For example, you can, but when you're not at home, the reduction of the capacity of the boiler or disable it (with a cold) and came home to turn it on, and all of the night to warm a home. The use of the Wi-Fi connection, a relay, or a timer, or some other means to automate the home to make this process automatic, that is, the power will need to be adjusted, but without your co-operation. That is, you can configure the integration of the heating for one hour prior to the arrival of the service, in order not to go into the cold room.
The energy efficiency of the
The concept of energy efficiency is insufficient, and, in the eyes of ordinary people is uncertain. In the majority of cases, under the energy efficiency and energy savings, people will understand, and the installation of led or energy-saving bulbs, and buy LED Tvs and monitors. However, this is not the case. The improvement of energy efficiency, which is one of the main contemporary tasks of the engineers and the scientists, and this is true both for harnessing the potential of new technologies and devices, with a variety of ancient deeds (in the same way an inverter to motors for compressors of refrigerators, washing machines, or led light sources and a different approach than the usual control elements, and a circuit board, such as the enhanced frequency in switching power supplies, the optimization of the modes of operation of the semiconductor switches in order to increase the efficiency of the instrument as a whole. So, to get all of the equipment is divided into classes of energy efficiency, it is denoted by Latin letters from A to G, but it is the most current of the device with the higher grades of A+, A++ and A+++, and have been described in the context of this document, such as the Directive on the label for energy efficiency no no no no No 2010/30/EU.
The energy efficiency class shall be determined on the basis of the amount of electricity that is consumed in the process and other factors, and for each type of technology has its own scale. It does not go into the details, we show the difference in classes in a real-world situation. The Yandex.the market of the chosen 2 different cooler with good reviews and rating, but of a different class of performance. The difference in the consumption of nearly 2-fold. However, the price is half. However, with modern technology, "energy efficiency" is not to be limited. In order to save energy, it is important to not waste energy in vain. This is especially true for those who heat their homes with electricity. If you have a thin wall and is removed from under the baseboards and Windows, regardless of what the boiler is and how efficient to make the heating circuit – will remain in the heat of the street! Insulation, sealing of joints, use of modern materials in construction significantly reduces heat loss. So, please provide the exact numbers are not sustainable because they depend on the specific house, there are other factors, such as the quality of the joining of the wall, stacking the blocks, sealing of all of the places where you can blow (cold bridges), and give the frequency and the strength of the wind in your area.
Five rules to save the
So, to sum up:
- 1. Unplug appliances and chargers from the mains, you do not want every time to pull the plug? There are extension cords, plugs, and the spark plugs to the switch.
- 2. Use of energy saving or led light bulbs.
- 3. At the time of purchase of a new refrigerator or washing machine, pay close attention to the technique of the highest class
- 4. Install a a number of of the tariff of the meter.
- 5. Inspect your home for heat loss (there are a lot of experts also provides an overview of the thermal measurements and to isolate problem areas.