There are special fridge adapters that you can fit to the rear of your fridge, which regulates and reduces the amount of electricity your fridge uses.
How does the owl help you break it down so specifically, like is your TV and PC on when you are cooking?
and THEN heating cold water on my cooker/kettle. Use the hot water from tank. Its all the same water and its already hot!
Hi,
I am on rural nightsaver electricity and on Direct Debit with Bord Gais. Have low wattage lights, dishwash, clothes wash, tumble dryer on at night as is immersion - the KWH we use at night not a problem but even this time of year I'm finding the use of KWH in day still high and can't understand what it is - the only item I can think of is we have an american fridge freezer which is about 14 years old - could this be the cause of my problem. The bill for last two months from March until present is E234. The part of bill for day is E150. It is a detached house in country also running our own well. Does anyone else thing this is high or have any light to throw on whether it could be american fridge freezer?
Just to add did have a work man here for 3 days building a shed using a circular saw -may this could account for that but bill previous to this was E254.
TIA
Angela59
Just to update for information to those with high electric bills - have just purchased an energy monitor from Argos E28.00 for plug in type - have plugged it into my American Fridge Freezer and will post the results over 24 hours.
Angela59
Over 15 hours according to my energy monitor - my American Fridge Freezer use 0.19 cents or 1.30 kwh. So over a year this would cost approx E126 to run - you can buy a new A+ American Fridge Freezer which uses 441 kwh of energy and would cost E66 to run. My own has no problems with - ok it uses double amount of energy of a new fridge but payback would be 10 years so I will be holding on to this. I have a small undercounter fridge which used I audited from 8.15 am t o 1.45 a.m. and cost 0.02 over 5 hours - this in turn costs E31 per yer to run - I forgot to read what kwh it used. I am do a test on my Fish tank at the moment and so far it has cost 0.12 cent to run from 1.45 p.m. today until 12.20 midnight - this is quite high - it has used 0.80 kwh of energy - so this is a luxury. I will run checks on water pumps and other items and relay back
Just one comment on the dishwasher: There's plenty of research that shows that dishwasher is more energy efficient than any washing by hand. Needs also much much less water. Throwing dishwasher out is false economy.
Also, I can't think about many other things that are more annoying or time-wasting than washing dishes by hand, given the cheap alternative...
It didnt and i dont think it can. It did however highlight huge surges between 7-8(when i cook). So it helped narrow it down, and showed me that my night time usage after my cooking was still quite high. (when im using the net on my big system). lasting 4-6 hours....
I'd be interested in that book your reading, the title?
Why is that if you know?
I only cook with it etc so its boiled, and for making tea, but out of curiousity do you know why? I thought it all comes from the same connection, and all flows around in my copper pipes?
So in short, water from your hot tap is only suitable for washing. It is not what is is termed as potable water, and so should not be consumed, used for cooking or even washing vegetables, etc.
Leo
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