Electricity — good civilization, but the cost per kilowatt-hour gradually increases, and energy saving issues become increasingly strong and important. What measures can be undertaken for each of us, to save not a penny more? Let's try to understand!
Culture the use of gadgets and appliances
Let's start with the fact that there is virtually none, — disconnect from your network of chargers, televisions, appliances. Charger, left the socket, it continues to run, this is called idle speed, and the power consumption of it depends on the circuit, and the power of the device. Has any type of food sources, such as transformers, and pulse. In any electrical appliances, for example, in the microwave, air conditioner, tv or TV-tuner there are indicators of display, led and so on Are also consume energy, and the power source, for example, when the tv is switched off "with the" continue to operate in a stand-by mode. The duty is a standby mode of the technique, it can wait for a signal from a remote control or set in the timer power-on hours. On this topic in the network there are a lot of research, we collected and averaged the data relating to the consumption of several appliances in "stand-by" mode or a stand-by, and reduced to a single list:
- - Satellite receiver, or a tuner for digital tv — 5.7 W (50 kw/year);
- - Console gaming — 0.7-1 W (8.7 kw/year);
- - Tv — 0.3-0.5 W (4,4 kw/year);
- The computer is in sleep mode — 3-4 Watts (35 kw/year);
- - Monitor — 1 W (8.7 kw/year);
- - Portable — 0.5 W (4,4 kw/year);
- - Coffee machine — 1.5 W (13 kw/year);
- - Washing machine — 0.1 Watts (0.9 kw/year);
- - Air conditioning — 3-5 Watts (44 kw/year);
- - The Router (always has the same mode of operation, and not in stand-by)— 3-5 Watts (44 kw/year).
If in any case the numbers do not represent a significant savings, but in total you get a considerable number of. In addition, any unused device, which are connected to the network is a fire hazard and fire. Then disconnect from the network devices, so if you're not using them. Also, it is not necessary to keep your pc or laptop is always turned on. The computer with the monitor can consume 100 W and more, even if only idle (and during the games, consumption may increase and-a-half kilowatts), the portable medium 40-60 Watts. Among other things, it is already possible to conclude that, if there is no need of downtime – the laptop will burn a smaller amount of electricity during operation. If you now do not need a pc or notebook – to send to sleep mode or hibernation mode, then its consumption will be reduced to a few watts. Also applies to tablets and mobile phones. The statistics of visiting web sites shows that most of the traffic in 2019 – mobile devices. In addition to the small size and autonomy is well-known and cost-efficiency. For example, the tablet is the battery capacity of almost 9000 mah battery voltage of about 3.7 v, which tells us that it stored power 33 Watt/h. the Manufacturer claims up to 10 hours of continuous work, which confirm and test the browser. What does that mean? What is charging it will go up to 40-50 Watts of electrical energy, if we consider the EFFICIENCY of the charger, and the power consumption when the tablet is charging. This energy is enough for a day of work or surf the internet, then as a real computer consumes in two more for now. In any case, it is not the advertising of appliances from the apples of the manufacturer, but only an example. The same can be said of any other device – to vary only the number of hours of work and the number of watts needed for this. Setting priorities and clearly define which device is enough to work.
Leaving turn off the light!
If in 2019 it is difficult to say something new on the efficiency of led and fluorescent lamps, will not be superfluous to remember that you need to use the lighting rational. Forgot to the night lighting basically hit to the wallet, also with the use of led lamps. Let's say that you leave on during the night, the light in the bathroom or in the hall, how much it costs? If you are talking about led lights, the biggest demand bulb power 710 watts, we take a larger value. Before going to sleep, forgot to turn off or purposely left the light on in one of the rooms, sleeps about 7-8 hours, then:
10*8 = 80 W/h for the night the wound the bulb, and the year:
80*365=29,2 kw/h
And if the light is on in different rooms throughout the night? Yes we add to this the appliances in stand-by, of which we have told above? If you are using an incandescent lamp – these are numbers you can multiply 10 times. In addition to the forgotten bulbs not all people understand the difference between the global and the local, the lighting and screwed into chandeliers, lamps powerful. Significant reduction in lighting costs, if for business use of a table lamp, and the total amount (ceiling) lighting to make it less bright. This will help you to dimmer or the allocation of lighting groups. Also the installation of motion sensors to light in these rooms will help you save money, as do we spoke about this in another article.
Counter
The installation of a lot of the tariff of the counter, substantially helps you to save. Here there are some variants – two-zone and three-zone pricing. For example, such rates:
- - For a tariff of 5,38 p for 1 kw/h
- - For the two bands on the billing: during the night (from 23:00 to 07:00) 2,29 p for 1 kw/h and in the afternoon (from 07:00 to 23:00) 6.1 r for 1 kw/h;
- - For three-tariff counters of the night 2,29 p, semi peak area (day and evening from 10.00 to 17.00 and from 21.00 to 23.00) — 5,38 r and in rush hours (in the 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.
To whom is it useful? Almost all, who by day works and night at home – more economical to bodø, laundry, the bathroom (if they use electric water heater), the kitchen (if the electric plate). Also a lot of counter data to reduce the amount for the heating, if you have a private house or an apartment, electric heating (induction boiler, boiler with Heat Energy Heaters, and so on.). So, while you are not at home, to lower the power of the boiler or even turn it off (if the game is freezing), and the return to the house, turn on, and all night the heating of the houses. Via Wi-Fi relay, or a timer, or other means of home automation to make this process automatic, that is, the power is adjusted without your participation. That is, it is possible to configure the activation of the heating an hour before coming to work, not to get in a frozen apartment.
The energy efficiency
The concept of energy efficiency is large enough, and in the eyes of the inhabitants of the fog. In most cases, under the energy efficiency and energy saving, the people understand, the installation of led or energy-saving lamps and the purchase of LED tv and monitor. But it is not so. The improvement of energy efficiency is one of the main modern activities of engineers and scientists, and about how to potentially use new technologies and devices with different from the old principle of action (the same inverter, electric motors, compressors, refrigerators, washing machines, or led light sources), and another approach to the method of control of habitual elements and circuits, as for example the increase in the frequency of power supply modes optimization of the semiconductor key with the aim of improving the EFFICIENCY of the equipment, in general. In this way, all the technology is divided into energy efficiency classes, indicated with letters from a To G, but are more relevant to devices with higher classes A+, A++ and A+++, and normalized in this document as "the Directive relating to the labelling the energy label n 2010/30/EU".
Energy efficiency class is determined on the basis of the amount of electric energy consumed in the process of work and a number of other factors, for each type of technology has its own scale. Not to get into too much detail, we will demonstrate the difference in degrees on a real example. On Yandex.store selected 2 different refrigerator with good reviews and rankings, but with a different class energy efficiency. The difference in consumption of almost 2 times. But the price is different to the mid. But modern appliances case, the efficiency is not limited. To save energy it is important not to waste unnecessary energy. This is especially true for those of us that warms to your accommodation of electrical energy. If you have thin walls, and pulls from under the baseboards and windows – it is not important which type of boiler and how rational you make a heating circuit – will still be sink on the road! The insulation, sealing joints, the use of modern materials for the construction significantly reduces the loss of heat. Bring specific numbers irrational because they depend on a specific house, and by other factors, such as the quality of the basin of the walls, the laying of the blocks, seal all the possible places where you can blow (thermal bridges), the country of the frequency and force of the wind on your site.
The five rules of saving
So, to summarize:
- 1. Switch off appliances and chargers from the network, not want to each time pull the plug from the power outlet? There are extension cords, sockets, and also the plug with the switch.
- 2. Use energy saving or led.
- 3. When the purchase of a new refrigerator or washing machine, pay attention to the technique of the upper classes
- 4. Install a lot of counter data.
- 5. Looking for a house in the theme of loss of heat (now, many experts suggest inspection with the camera) and isolate problem areas.