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It's the news of the summer and recent months: “Electricity is rising again and marking a historic record,” and so on every day for weeks. Paying the electricity bill has become a luxury. That's why I think what I'm about to tell you is important and necessary: how you can pay less for electricity each month and save on your electricity bill. I'll give you some effective and efficient tips.
I will give you several tips that are useful and will allow you to save a few euros on that electricity bill that has scared us so much for some time. This way, you will pay less until we have a different outlook in Spain regarding the energy issue.
Because the medium- to long-term goal is for Spain to be able to not depend on the outside for electricity supply, which is not currently the case.
Contenido
- 1 Measures to save on the electricity bill
- 2 Consider schedules and create daily routines
- 3 Create low consumption habits
- 4 Low consumption light bulbs
- 5 What is the Energy Efficiency certificate for?
- 6 Take advantage of sunlight and natural heat
- 7 Programmable thermostats
- 8 Efficient appliances
- 9 Intelligent use of appliances
- 10 Save with windows, doors and facades
Measures to save on the electricity bill
So, without further ado, here are some of the measures that can be taken to save on electrical energy.
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Consider schedules and create daily routines
It is something we are not yet used to, but it is essential to take it into account: electricity consumption schedules. There are peak hours and off-peak hours; in the former, consuming electricity is more expensive due to the high general electrical demand. There are also intermediate hours. On the other hand, electricity is cheaper during off-peak hours.
So, to save a little on the bill, you just need to be clear about those schedules and create daily and weekly routines for certain electrical tasks.
Peak hours, the most expensive hours:
From Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 18:00 to 22:00 are the most expensive hours that you should avoid.
Off-peak hours, the cheapest:
Monday to Friday from 0:00 to 8:00
Weekends and holidays.
Flat hours, an average price:
Monday to Friday: from 8:00 to 10:00, from 14:00 to 18:00 and from 22:00 to 24:00 hours.
Well, having these schedules clear, all that remains is for you to make some routines and a schedule according to these time slots.
Taking into account that the cheapest hours are weekends and holidays and nighttime hours.
You can consider setting washing machines and dishwashers to run at night so that you can hang up the clothes or collect the clean dishes and cutlery when you get up.
Also, use weekends and holidays to do tasks such as ironing, vacuuming, doing the week's laundry, etc. It's all a matter of adapting to the time slots.
Create low consumption habits
There are many habits that we have acquired that involve an extra expense of electricity. Some of them have to do with small appliances that do not consume much electrical energy, but added together over a month, they can mean a good amount of money.
For example, turning off the lights when leaving rooms, unplugging the router or television when we leave the house, and other small appliances that are usually left plugged in for hours without using them.
It is estimated that with this, you can achieve savings of up to 10% on the electricity bill.
Low consumption light bulbs
They have been telling us for years, but we didn't pay attention, and now it is more important than ever: replace the light bulbs in the home with LED bulbs.
LED bulbs are the ones that consume the least and shine the most today. In addition, due to the technology they incorporate, they are usually the bulbs that last the longest without breaking down, with a long service life.
While they may be more expensive than other bulbs, such as halogen bulbs, the investment will be recovered in a short time.
It is estimated that an LED bulb can consume between 30% and 70% less than other types of lights. The investment that buying LED bulbs for your entire home may entail will be recovered in a few months on the bill, and you will notice it.
What is the Energy Efficiency certificate for?
This energy certificate and the energy efficiency label inform the potential buyer or tenant of the necessary information of the property regarding energy consumption. This is fundamental information for this person to make a decision about buying or renting said premises.
You will be able to calculate and foresee the cost that you will have to assume for being the owner or renting the house or property in question based on its consumption.
That is why it is considered fundamental information that must be published in any document offering for sale or rent, just like other information such as the price or surface area thereof.
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Take advantage of sunlight and natural heat
In many homes, people live with their backs to the sun and natural light, with unecological attitudes such as doing tasks at night that could be done during the day. If you adopt a routine more adapted to the rhythm of natural light, you will avoid spending more than necessary.
Studying during the day, getting up earlier and going to bed earlier, drying clothes during the sunniest hours, etc. This will avoid the excessive use of electric light or heating to dry clothes, for example.
Programmable thermostats
Thermostats are a perfect invention at the moment. Their purchase represents a
If you make a good regulation so that the temperature stays around 20 degrees and program it to turn on when you are at home, you will eliminate unnecessary expenses.
Efficient appliances
You already know that appliances have a rating according to the energy certificate. Choosing those with the least consumption is an important saving measure. Although it is true that they are the most expensive, they allow savings of up to 40% of energy and water.
Intelligent use of appliances
Opening the refrigerator little, not putting it at a higher temperature than necessary, taking advantage of the entire load of the washing machine and choosing the programs with the lowest consumption are just some of the measures you can take to save water and electricity easily.
It is about using appliances with common sense and intelligence to save energy.
Other measures in this regard include disconnecting and unplugging what is not needed or buying appliances of the size that we are going to need, without overdoing it.
Save with windows, doors and facades
In any home or building in general, one of the biggest energy expenses comes from heat loss. And this occurs at the points that face the outside: roof, facade, doors and windows.
Therefore, all the advances that can be made at those points will make your house more economical and ecological, reducing energy consumption.
In this sense, good measures would be to install PVC windows or a SATE system on the facade, today two of the systems that allow greater energy savings at these points.
Well, I hope this helps you to apply changes and achieve a saving on the electricity bill every month that is really noticeable. It is enough to apply common sense, efficient habits and some changes in technology and it will be possible.
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