Smart Power Strips and Timers, Other Ways to Lower Your Energy Bill
Electricity Express is not only an electricity broker. We would like you to save energy and thus pay less electricity. We believe that let alone a great kilowatt rate we always offer is not enough. Thus, we go beyond, and we give you Ways to Lower Your Energy Bill Part 2.
Problem: Phantom Energy Consumption
Caused by: Vampire Appliances
Solution: Smart Power Strips and Timers
Smart Power Strips & Timers – Ways to Lower Your Energy Bill
Up to 12 % of your energy bill comes from Standby mode electronics and Vampire Appliances
Standby mode in electronics is the number one cause of phantom energy consumption. While an electronic may be off, it is still ready for you to use by the touch of a button. Nevertheless, we can fight this drawing of electricity from Standby mode electronics and Vampire Appliances with these ideas.
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Smart Power Strips
We have talked about Smart Power Strips. Namely, these power strips help you to disconnect with ease electronics that are not in use. Some of these smart power strips are so smart that stop drawing energy by themselves. This happens when they recognize that the electronic is not demanding such an amount of energy to maintain that electronic in use. They can be used as a power surge too. Ways to Lower Your Energy Bill
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Timers
A little more complicated gadget to use but still a great solution as Ways to Lower Your Energy Bill.
Cut the energy usage without unplugging the appliances
This little artifact is suggested to be managing the kitchen appliances energy usage.
Let’s see what we have in the kitchen that, most of the time, is plugged into an outlet and falls into the vampire appliances category: coffee maker, microwave, stove, water filter, TV, chargers (phone, tablet, etc.). Just to mention some of the most common appliances. Ways to Lower Your Energy Bill
The idea with these timers is that they disconnect completely at the time you tell them to and get back to the grid or get power in the same manner. We program the timer to be disconnected at the times we are out at work and while we are sleeping. There is no need to have all these appliances connected 100 % of the time.
Reduce your electricity consumption, more ideas in our Power Blog
Ways to Lower Your Energy Bill
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