21%
My wife and I were able to lower the electric bill in our place of work by 21%… isn’t that a great feat??? We were surprised by the outcome because we didn’t expect it to go down that much…
Here’s what we did…
1. Change all lighting to the Phillips Energy Saving Bulbs (11 & 18 watts)… since these bulbs are expensive, we only sought to change the bulbs which were ON all the time.
2. Change broken down refrigerators, those which aren’t cooling anymore… allowing them to run means their compressors would be running at 100% all the time. To save on the expense, we asked the softdrinks dealer to change them for us…. that’s the importance of having good relationships with your dealers… hehehe
3. Turn off refrigerators at 12 AM when we leave for work and then turn them back on at 7 AM… Except those of course which have ice cream in them.
4. Turn on refrigerators as needed. We usually have 3 refs running stocked with beer and softdrinks. On lean days when we don’t have customers, we run only 2 refs, one stocked with beer and the other with softdrinks.
5. Fix the thermostat of the airconditioners… set to 25′C cooling and not 11′C, as this would mean that the compressors would be running all the time.
Truly Amazing as these were just 5 simple things…
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