How to save energy and reduce your electricity bill - Check Consumption

Check Consumption

Many of us know very little about how much electricity our appliances actually use although we often see power consumption labels attached to the apparatus.

Now is it possible to measure the consumption of each individual appliance we have in the house. A device called energy monitor available that just plug into the wall socket and give a reading in Watts together with the actual running cost in dollars per hour. The measurement made can be very revealing. Most of of us knows that electric fires are very expensive to run but do you know exactly how much per hours yours costs?

Most of the devices at your home when left switched off are still consume energy. Although, product manufacturers has improve through the years to minimize the electricity consumptions at standby mode, the electricity is not totally cut-off. This is because when there are on standby mode, much of the circuitry is still operational and therefore consuming power. It is always good to identify which device at home so that you can save electricity bill by switching off at the main socket.

There is now a way to monitor the entire home energy consumptions. This usually a tedious task for the home user. You need to switch on one appliance at a time to know how much individual device is consuming electricity watt. Now, monitoring energy consumption made much easier with a portable unit called the TED The Energy Detective Electricity Monitor TED1001 with Footprints Software that can be used anywhere in the house. You can now read from the display in real time the electricity consumption and the cost whenever you need it. You can even know how much volume of the greenhouse gases produced in the generation of the power used.

Now that you have learned about the consumption of each of your electrical appliances in your house, you will be much more knowledgeable to plan and save energy and reduce your electricity bill. These also enable you to understand and choose your future appliances which uses minimum energy to power up the device and not gone to waste. The initial cost of these device may seem an expenses to you at the the start, but it is a valuable investment for mid-term because you will be able to see subsequent savings of up to 25%. Therefore the initial cost can be paid off quickly than you thought.