Discover the best formulas and tips to save energy with electronic devices inside your home.
To save on the electricity bill it is necessary to apply a favorable formula when contracting electricity and also apply the list of tips that we provide below to save energy with the use of electronic devices inside your home:
Apply the most favorable light formula: rate and electric power
The first step to achieve effective electricity savings for any home is to take a look at the conditions of the electricity rate that has been contracted, because they may not be the most favorable for your consumption profile.
Users have the ability to change companies and rates whenever they want. Therefore, having a light contract with EDP does not imply that they can only be changed at another rate of the same EDP company within its current catalog:
Using an online rate comparator, consumers have access to the best personalized offers on the market based on the parameters entered. Therefore, it would be interesting to try these types of tools to see how much you can save just by changing the electricity rate.
In addition, it is possible to apply another extra solution to reduce electricity consumption based on changing the contracted power of your home. Use this method only if you perceive that you can settle for a lower range of electrical power regardless of the simultaneous use of certain devices.
Find out how you can begin to perceive the savings by lowering the contracted power by contacting the customer service of your light company.
Whenever you want you can change the contracted power again but you should know that increasing it costs more money than lowering it because you have to pay a series of common compulsory rights throughout the national territory, so you must think carefully to not counteract everything previously saved if you have recently reduced the power of light in your home.
Tricks to efficiently use your electrical devices
The way in which we use our appliances, electronic devices and other appliances connected to the household electric current will directly affect the amount of light consumption throughout the month and consequently the price to be paid will be affected.
Here is a list of recommendations that you can apply to regulate the individual expense of each of your devices:
- After using all small and medium-sized devices, do not hesitate to disconnect them from the electrical current. We do not do the same with the large ones such as the washing machine, dishwasher or the oven because the light socket is inaccessible in most cases.
- Place a multiple strip in which you can plug small devices of frequent use. Turning it off directly cuts off the power for all these devices at the same time.
- Turn on the devices when you are actually using them.
- Reduces the brightness of mobile and computer screens. In addition to consuming much less, it will help you save battery in the case of the mobile device and less damage to your vision in the case of desktop devices.
- Put your computer in sleep mode when you are going to be temporarily absent during its use and use dark screensavers and desktop background.
- Change the lamps in your house for low consumption LED bulbs. Above all, start by applying this method to the kitchen and bathroom, which are the places where the most electrical energy is consumed.
If you want to know more information for extra savings using the new technologies implemented in specific devices for energy saving you can consult the following article.