How to save electricity

Saving electricity means saving money and protecting the environment. Everyday life offers us further increases, how can we cope with these increases? Save electricity could be the answer.

Make small changes to our daily lifestyle, means to significantly reduce your electric bill and also reduce energy emissions. To see a tangible saving would be enough to follow five simple points :

• Electrical devices. TV, DVD players, and computers, appliances are showing their work through colored LEDs. This indicates that when we see a little red light on the sidebar of our TV, it means that the device is active and is in the standby condition. This happens for stereo, video games and a large number of electrical equipment. The activity of these devices in standby mode affects a lot on our electric bill. Use of simple slippers multi-plug. You can help reduce waste and save energy.
• Lighting. Even the bulbs could help us in our business: the high-efficiency lamps, when a purchasing cost more but it will be a well-thought-out investment: they consume much less electricity and last much longer than most conventional lamps, in addition to the fact that they make lighter and reduce eye fatigue.
• Refrigerator. For this appliance just one rule, open it only when you need it. It seems trivial, but opening the door all the time, does nothing but increases the power consumption of the device that will be forced, by opening to open, to drive turbines appropriate to maintain a cooler temperature. Open the door of the fridge means to overheat is because hot air is pushed into the outside of the fridge, and because it goes into action, the LED of the refrigerator that heats the adjacent atmosphere. The one just described is a good idea to ensure that savings but remember that there is an obligation to keep the appliance at a distance of at least 10 cm from the wall so as to avoid overheating of the entire room.
• Electric Oven and Microwave. For the oven, shut it down just before cooking the food, so as to utilize the residual heat accumulated in the furnace, so as to finish cooking without adding an ounce of power. The situation is different for the microwave which has always proven to be a good ally in energy saving: prefer the microwave oven to the electrical system might be a good strategy.
• Washing machine and other appliances. The traffic daily energy may be changed in our favor. An example is made from the washing machine: washing laundry at night, you could take advantage of lower pricing and you could avoid clogging traffic daily energy; the washing machine, as well as the dishwasher, should only be used at full load and temperatures are not too high, between 30-60 °.

These steps can be valuable to conserve electricity and save money. The domestic life should be conducted with less superficiality, to understand how much you can actually save money, just think that it is estimated a savings of $60 of annual electricity.