What are the steps you are taking to save the electricity bill?

Hi Sreekala, Well since the company pays for most of the electric bills for us we don't really need to spend in a lot of money, anyways we do try to save electricity, we don't leave the fans running, that is what most of people sometimes forget to turn off after leaving the room, well i believe yes the fridge should not be turned off but kept running, and even if turned off should not be left so for such a long time that it gets back to normal temperature hence it is better to keep it running. In the summers especially our bills are heavier, we tend to use the air conditioner when we sleep, and the ceiling fan it on all day, switching lights off where not required and what else... even though our bills are not very heavy but we still try to keep it as low as we can, saving electricity, we could use it later too, well that was about my home. You know i am living in a hostel, and in room there is nothing much, just a fan, light, and an outlet for the electrical appliances, we pay a very less amount for electricity which is included in the semester fees but even then we should consider saving electricity, i sometimes leave my computer on even when i leave my room and go somewhere, i guess i should not be doing that coz there is nothing going on important, i just stay online, but anyway i should not be doing that, most of my friends do that too, when we leave for attending some lecture we do leave our computers on, i guess that is a waste of electricity. You too have a great weekend Sreekala.

hello sister, This is very timely topic. This summer time surely will give us higher electric bills. Well,i also heard about switching off the fridge at night. But in my case,i can't do it,since my fridge is a "no frost"...then,there's no enough ice from the freezer to make the fridge cool the whole night. What i am doing to save some electricity is,i washed clothes at least twice a week,using hands instead of washing machine. I soak the dresses whole night,so,i can wash them easily in the morning and also drying it naturally(sun's heat)not using the dryer anymore. One more thing is,i unplug all appliances(excluding the fridge). I also leave our windows open (with screen locked) to have more ventilation,so no need to put the fan at the maximum level. I also bought a brush esp designed for cleaning carpet,so,i use my vacuum cleaner once a month instead of once a week. I asks my kids to sleep at one room...my two sons were using separate rooms...i asked them to share one room so they can use one fan instead of two. And i also had my daughter sleeps with me in my room,so we can share one fan also. Oh..gosh this electric bills is really consuming our budget

Hi Sree, we don't switch off our fridge to save electricity. We never want to see our ice cream, yogurt, butter, etc to turn to the undesirable form or have bad odor You know sometimes we might not come back as what we have planned due to certain matter which can't be expected to. I was told exactly like what you have mentioned above as well, switching off fridge on and off frequently is not the right way to save energy charge. And the fridge might damage easily if keep on doing this way. As far as I know air con, shower water heater as well as kettle are the heavy power consumption electric appliances. For the sake of saving electricity we try to use table and ceiling fan instead of air con unless we could hardly stand the scorching heat during dry season. We take warm shower only during cold rainy day. We have fixed two sets of water filter and we don't have to take the trouble to boil water anymore Take care and have a nice day

hey sreekala, First of all I really appreciate that you started such a topic, We are at a stage, that we need to think about these matters seriously, I personally feel that one should save electricity not only to save the electricity bills, but its a global concern, there are many places in this world where electricity is not readily available. Well I save electricity by switching off any thing which is not in need, i dont use electric bulbs and tube lights in day time, i know its a small contribution but still it is a contribution from my side.

Trying to save on my electric billI I keep my appliances unplugged when not in use. All the lightbulbs in my house are the knew longer lasting that is suppose to be good for the environment. I make sure all lights in the house are not on if know one is in the room. My washer and dryer are the new HE type which is suppose to save on energy and water. That is all I can think of now but I'm sure I'm missing something else.

This is hard to answer topic... Well I am studying right now how to build my own solar panel to help me reducing my consumption of electricity from Meralco.

Dear sree, I hope if one uses the current well may one could give the amount in bill as per effective usage. May other alternative for electricity too could give a better result. Like those solar panels, solar cookers, solar lights etc. May these kinds of alternative might give a best result in reducing current bill. Moreover be alert to switch off those unwanted services of electricity. Mostly at my home I avoid unnecessary usage of electricity and that is well projected in my bill too.

oh Sreekala no thats not saving electricity but taking a chance of food getting warmed up.also switching computers off and on does n t save electricy and is actually hard on our computers. I turn all off at bedtime bu t when I had my own apartment we switched off lights and tvs when not in use and also changed our bulbs to the swiggley bulbs that last for years and do not use much electricity. also replace an old ailing fridge with an energy saving modern one and it will pay for itself in lower bills. also shut down air conditioners except for very hot days as they use a lot of electricity and do up your thermostat to a higher reading.

Well, saving electricity is not about switching off and on the fridge, there are many ways to save the electricity, first thing turning off the lights when natural lights comes in the morning, i have seen many people glowing their bulbs till 10 or 11 am.. Switching off the fans when u are moving away even for 5 minutes ..Many will not do this, they never care .. The other important thing, that air conditioner and fans should not be running parallel, this takes much electric power and more dust would be formed in the air conditioner, u could use either a fan or an ac...

There are a lot of things that my husband I are trying to do to save electricity in our house. That said, the main thing that we've done to save electricity is that we mostly use CFL lightbulbs in our house. In addition to that, since we've moved in we've also added a lot of new insulation to the attic because the house had a tendency to get pretty cold during the winter and stay pretty warm in the upstairs in the extreme temperatures. I think that has made a lot of difference on our electric bills as well.

saving electricity? it's nice if i could get all the light-bulbs changed to those with energy-saving features. i switch off the lights or other appliances when they are not in use. my sister normally off the switches and take them off the powerpoints if they are not used for a day or two. when the aircon is on, the fans would be off. the aircon is normally programmed to switch off automatically after sometime.

Another technique to save some electricity bill: 1. You must be a keyboard fastest typist.... to save time 2. Make your monitor a Liquid Crystal Display

Hello Sree sis *hugs, I am back again and I am back in the long queque to answer you lol. After coming here I find how heaven our place is. It is high rating for everything. Okay for saving electricity, I used to switch off fans when it is not needed even I am under it. Then using CFL bulbs in few rooms. Let me think what will be other ways lol.

Hi sreekala... I would like to answer for your post that this is my first postings.. Definitely your post having interest in having to cut off and save electricity for the future itself.Now mainly having recession period and also have to generate most of the times i do and care about the readings of the meter in my home. I often cut some time may be half an hour or may be extended to 1 hour means enough for reduce the consumption of electricity.I also replaced 100 watts and 60 watts of bulbs and brought out energy saving bulbs like compact fluorescent lamps to all my rooms.I reduce consumption of iron box,fridge and heaters too. I think this habit will make lots of changes in the future can also took a decision to make good habits for save the bill too.

Hello Sree! Very Pertinent post. We all face this problem and we pay hefty bills for using electricity. I used to switch of my refrigerator in the mornings of winter, for 2-3 hours, when it was winter here in Delhi. At that point of time, my Gyser used to run for 2 hours in the morning, so I thought I can safely switch off my refrigerator and I have noticed that I was able to reduce my electricity bills upto an extent. However, during summer months it is difficult to save electricity because we can not make do without fans, coolers or ACs. We do not have any incandescent bulb in our home, we have replaced all the bulbs with CFL. Though, initially buying a CFL is an expensive affair, yet, regular use of Compact flurecent Lamps (CFLs) do help in saving electricity. Also, we switch on the lights and fan, when we are not using them in any room. Also, you know that my (real) name is such and I keep glowing in accordance with my (real) name, even at nights, that also helps us reduced electricity. Have a great day! Deepak

I turn off the fridge in the evening for like 7-12 hrs. From the time we have been doing this we've managed to save electricity. We do this 3-4x a week and it helped a lot. During the day the fridge will form ice already and that coldness can stay for the whole night. But if there are lots of food inside then we don't turn it off. We also use electric iron once a week only. We use low wattage light bulbs too and thank God we don't have electric pump anymore. Electricity really eats a lot on the monthly budget.

Hello sree good morning this is a very nice question and topic you posted. Speaking of electricity savings you have to consider a lot of things especially the usage and particularly the facility you are using. From traditional lighting to green lighting which is a part of world campaign on friendly environment program. Traditional Lighting falls on our incandescent lamps, bulbs mercury lamp, high pressure sodium lights etc...it refer to all lamps that produce yellowish color lights.. Well, in my little ways of savings, I pulled out those cable plugs being plugged always on its outlet, turning off those lights after usage, pulling off or turning off our fridge the whole night, minimize usage of computer and some other thing that I could save my electricity bill... Nice topic...keep it up... Mobhomeir here...

Hi Sree, WE follow the advise of our electric company on how to save electricity. we switch off all appliances when not in use and only switch on the light during night time. avoid switching on and off the lights and even the appliances ift will speed up the meter and will increase the bill. we iron our clothes once a week to save energy. we organize our clothes for work and the kids school uniform. so every sunday is an iron day for the family.

to me saving the electricity bill at home is very much related to conserving energy. but the fridge is still on, i read and take warm showers if i need to, as usual. conserving energy is simply about energy-efficiency. and that is about doing the same things with just a part of the energy used. if my pc is not going to be used for more than 30 minutes because i need to get my groceries i would switch it off. lights and electrical appliances are switched off at the power socket when they are not in use. the lights have also been replaced by compact fluorescent lamps or cfl. the washing machine at home normally washes with a full load. we use the fan more than the aircon now, instead. above all we have educated each other at home on energy conservation and eventually to save our electricity bill as well as doing a part to save the earth in our very own small ways.

Sree beti We use CFL bulbs and compact thin tube lights. We replaced all old fans; they were heavy, we now use light weight less power consuming types. We switch off fans and lights when not in use. In stead of electric heater, we use induction type heaters.