Best Ways to Save Your Electricity Bills

Let’s find out which appliances use the most electricity before discussing how to reduce your electricity costs.

The refrigerator, water heater, and air conditioner are the three appliances that use the most energy, with the air conditioner using the most electricity, according to the National Environment Agency (NEA).

If that is indeed the case, how can the consumption be decreased?

Let’s find out!

1. Adjust the thermostat on your air conditioner to 25°C or higher

Singapore is a humid country, so occasionally a room can feel extremely hot and stuffy. You don’t have to set your thermostat below 20°C to be comfortable—use the air conditioning if you’d like. Instead, make your room feel more like a Nordic country. A temperature of at least 25°C should be used. Did you know that you can save an estimated $15 a year for every degree you raise? Using the money you save at the end of the year, treat your family to a feast if you can swap out your air conditioning unit for a fan.

2. Use fewer heat-emitting appliances

Electricity consumption is high for heat-emitting appliances such as water heaters, induction stoves, tumble dryers, and irons. Here’s how to use each appliance less frequently.

A. Iron

Try this instead of ironing your clothes: after a hot bath or shower, hang your clothes on a plastic hanger and store them in the bathroom. To ensure that steam stays in the room, make sure the window and everything else are closed. It takes ten to fifteen minutes to get your clothes wrinkle-free.

B. Hair Dryer

Drying long hair after a shower can be a hassle. A hairdryer will typically do the trick, but it’s also one of the biggest causes of rising electricity costs. After taking a shower, try combing through your hair with a brush made of super-absorbent microfibers, or try wearing a microfiber turban.

C. Tumble Dryer

Of course, you can use the conventional method of hanging clothes from bamboo sticks. It is the most effective way that uses no electricity. Additionally, be sure to use the high-spin method on your washing machine, as this will use less electricity than using a tumble dryer to produce heat.

D. Induction Stove

If safety is not an issue, use a gas stove.

E. Water Heater

There are several strategies to reduce the amount of electricity the water heater uses. Here are a handful:

Because the amount of water heated determines how much electricity is used, use a smaller heater. When not in use, turn off your water heater right away. To stop heat loss, use heat-insulating water pipes and keep the thermostat in the middle setting. Finally, visit Sembawang’s Hot Spring to save electricity and water.

3. Fill up your refrigerator’s empty spaces

Who says you can never save more money by doing less? It operates the opposite way for a refrigerator. You must first comprehend basic physics regarding the flow of heat in air. Due to the density of air and its poor ability to conduct heat, they were transported by masses of hot and cold air exchanging places. When you open an empty refrigerator, a lot of trading happens. Heat can only be transferred by conduction if it is full.

You can prevent hot air from entering your refrigerator and replace the cold air by packing it full of water, ice packs, or empty bottles and containers. This will save energy by preventing the refrigerator from pumping out extra heat.

4. Swap your plasma TV for an LED one

A plasma TV uses more electricity than an LED TV because each gas cell in a plasma TV needs to be charged, but an LED TV uses light that is distributed evenly and independently.

In addition to producing more heat than an LED TV, a plasma TV requires more electricity to cool the room when it is left on all day.

5. Switch off appliances to standby

Standby mode on appliances accounts for roughly 10% of total energy use in a home. When not in use, turn them off. The laptop, TV, radio, and heater are typical items.

6. Send in your own meter reading

SP Services will send someone to read the electricity meter outside your home once every two months. When meters are not read, the readings are estimated for those months. You can actually submit the reading yourself online or over the phone with them to avoid being overcharged.