10 Ways to Save on Electricity

Ahaha. I have yet to start working on that power saver myth blog entry. With all the technical jargon simplified and whatnot. Gah!

Anyway, although these power savers work on really controlled conditions, I advise the average consumer to stay away from them.

They tell you that the products have been tested by Meralco, but how many actually tell you that they have passed Meralco’s stringent testing procedure and have the papers to back their claim? NONE. NADA. ZERO.

Ah, so you’re one of those people who spend hours in a coffee shop, occupying a table for 4 oblivious to other people in need of seats, without a care if the establishment looses money so you can save on your e-bills.

“Others would go as far as buying a generator set and run on diesel. I haven’t really computed the exact numbers by estimate is around 2.5 to 3 kilowatt hour per liter of fuel.”

We might save on household cost in the short term but in my opinion, this is not beneficial to Mother Earth in the long run, since in totality, we are actually increasing households’ carbon footprint. Running individual generator sets also run against the idea of “economies of scale”

One way to have your brewed coffee and save electricity – use a French press. Just grind your beans (or use pre-ground, meh), add hot water, steep for five minutes, and you’re good to go. :)

ours almost went double too.

If you cant live with out aircons. Inverter aircons offer a lot of savings because of the new hardware and process of cooling the area. These should be chosen when purchasing a new unit. In the end Natural cooling will save you more.

yeah… our previous months was only 3k then suddenly it was way way way up… to 12k… I was checking what are the changes that we did… I don’t think adding an 1 use of AC will increase your elec. bill for 300%.. ggrrr…

Suggestion ko nga, para makatipid sa kuryente, gumamit na lang ng solar panel/collector. Ang kaso pinagbabawal yata dito sa Pilipinas. Affordable ang solar panel/collector, dahil libre ang kuryenteng ginegenerate nito. Been trying to push the local government to allow people to install solar panel/collector, kaso ayaw e.

Nakakaloko talaga yang electric bill. In my case, we normally pay between 1,100+ to 1,200+ pesos a month. However, beginning the bills I got from February until recently parang rollercoaster ride! Case in point: February my bill was 938.20 pesos, March bill naging 2,280.10 (napamura ako nito ng husto), then last month I paid only 130.45 pesos. For this month, I will be paying 1,633.15 pesos.

@michael: as ko lang po kung saan nakakabili sa pinas ng solar panel? tnx po

our bill tripled :(

Power savers are scams on residential homes.Im taking up Power Engineering at UP and to tell you the truth, it’s just a waste of money buying those worthless appliances.

Here are some websites that sell solar charger/panels. Check it out. This might help.

http://www.batterycountry.com/ShopSite/product9991.html
http://www.siliconsolar.com/solar-battery-chargers.html
http://www.solio.com/charger/
http://www.earthtechproducts.com/

Wow! I’m paying about P7.4 per kWh up north (local electric utility). And I thought that was expensive!

Just to let you know guys, Pareho lang tayo nga situation dito sa province. Our electric bill also increased despite same lang ang consumption namin..Kung ako lang talaga mag titiis ako sa fan kaso sa katagalan umiinit din ang fan e.

http://www.squidoo.com/reduceenergybill?utm_campaign=search-discovery&utm_medium=greet4&utm_source=google

is it weird that we didn’t feel much of an increase with our bill? we usually get around 8-10K because of our appliances which include 2 1HP aircon units that run almost 18 hours a day.

We were expecting things to double, as what most people have encountered pero imagine our surprise when our bill was 10,500. parang walang pinagbago. weird.

alm nyo ba bakit nagtaas ung kuryente pwera sa generation cost?i mean parang taxi yan eh may flag down rate cla kpg umabot lang ng 100kw ung kuryente mo walang patong pero kpg lumagpas ka na sa 100kw at nging 101kw pataas dagdag ult cla ng another peso it depends sa kilowatt na nkonsumo mo and besides nag taas tlga ng generation fee..example para mas lalo nyo maintindihan

100kw – 0 php
120kw – 100php
140kw – another 100php so 200pesos na kagad ung nadagdag..hndi ko sure magkano ang rate nila pero ganito ang format ng meralco..and isa pa hndi ba kau nagtataka sa mga bahay na hndi mapansin ung kuntador ng kuryente pano nila nkukuha ung reading??ung mga tao nagreread minsan kpg hndi nila mkita ung kuntador,hinuhulaan nlng nila ung reading dahil nga sa hndi nila makita ung kuntador hula hula nlang cla tignan nila ung bahay kung ano afford nilang gamit and ung ibang nagreread pinapaubaya nlng sa computer ng meralco..ung computer ng meralco sila ung nageestimate ng kuryente nyo kpg walang result na nkuha ung tauhan na nagread ng kuntador nyo,,ginagamit na estimate ung mga previous reading nyo para maestimate ng computer ung bill nyo ngaun..

reply for michael ranola, hindi naman po yata pinagbabawal ang paggamit ng solar electricity sa pilpinas kuya eh.sa katunayan nga, may mga company na nag oofer ng ganito MISMO sa bansa………hehehe nice day to you

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