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When we say "Energy Conservation" one thing usually pop-up in our mind is all about electricity or electric power consumption. It is absolutely right because it takes a big share of concern in terms of energy conservation - which related to our carbon footprints usage. Electricity is so important in our daily lives because almost all people in the world use electricity.
The world would stop its breath should electric power turns off. All business sectors depend on electricity supply to run each of their own nature of business. All equipments rely on electricity because it is the source of their purpose. However, due to high demand on electricity consumptions - most likely from industrial firms, electric power cost goes up higher and higher.
The use of different kinds of electrical appliances and gadgets make electric meter runs fast igniting our electric monthly bills get higher. Usually this happens during summer time in some tropical climate places.
There's an increase demand of power supply for those cooling system on different establishment because of hot season. However there are lots of people who are budget-conscious individual adapting energy conservation strategies. If an individual could successfully conserve energy from his consumption then obviously he/she could surely save money.
There so many simple ways and means in conserving power consumption.
Simply turn off lights and electrical appliance when not in use. Install dimmer on every lightings you had to adjust the wattage of the bulbs in your house interiors - lower wattage lower power consumption. Eliminate or change your incandescent lighting to induction lamps - this is good for 100,000 burning hours 24/7 usage.
Induction lamp gives good color rendition; produces good color vision at same time reduces your electric consumption bills.
Proper maintenance of our electrical appliances especially our air-conditioning units could help us lower and
maintain our electric power consumption bill monthly - 78deg Fahrenheit is right during summer and adjust thermostat to "conserve energy" settings, proper maintenance of the cleanliness of the air filters to improve its performance.
Refrigerator, flat iron and rice cooker are the most voracious electric power eaters. When putting lot of stuff
in your fridge do it once not by opening and closing one by one each of all the stuffs. You can also save power consumption on your refrigerator by having a regular cleaning and proper defrosting to those who don't have frost-free.
Use flat iron once a week on your social dresses and pants only and just fold neatly those daily casual clothes. Some people who are depending on using rice cooker rather than gas range would cook (rice) good for the whole day consumption. If these simple ways of conserving energy mentioned above could just be followed, it surely would drop your monthly electric power bills.
Strict self discipline and patience play an important role on our energy conservation.
No matter how simple it is to follow if we don't have determination to get on our plan of lowering our electric bills monthly - while at the same time saving our energy - then we still failed.
