How I Reduced Electricity Consumption by 30%

Reducing 30% of electricity consumption means to spend 30% less money every month. Money is an important factor in everybody’s life but besides that, reducing the electricity consumption gives the mother nature more chances to breath, since we reduce the amount of emission into the air. I have managed to reduce the electricity bill by 30% at my home. I want to share the story with you.

We had 2 Air Conditioner (AC) in our home, one AC was 1/2 Pk and another one was 1 Pk. It wasn’t a simple decision for me to change my old 1 Pk Air Conditioner (800 watt), we wanted to change it to an AC 1/2 Pk. The consideration was of course about the money. The price of the new AC 1/2 Pk (320 watt) was about $250-350. Of course the electricity consumption of AC 1/2 Pk is less than 1 Pk, but it was like investing some money but we didn’t know how much the profit that we could get from that investment. Finally, we changed the AC. We sold the old one and installed the new AC 1/2 Pk.

We were very curious to know the electricity bill. It was funny, usually paying the electricity bill was something that we wanted to avoid, but at that time, we were waiting for that magic moment.  I don’t know the price of electricity in your country, but usually we paid about $35 per month. When the bill came, we were quite happy when we saw that bill was $22. Hurray.. our investment was not too bad.  It means that we can save $13 per month from the electricity bill.

It is a proof that investing your money to buy energy-efficient appliances is worth it. The good news is that the new model of appliances don’t use as much as energy as the older model. The market is very competitive now, especially for the electronic appliances. Energy efficient appliances will of course be one of the attraction for the customers. Another thing is that the new model should meet the minimum energy efficiency standards. These standards have always been tightened over the years. The better the appliances the less they use electricity.

So, what are you waiting now? Start looking  to replace your old appliances and reduce your electricity bill.