I designed a plan to save energy by: 1. Looking at all the items in the house that use electricity, 2. Looking at the list and finding which ones didn't need to be turned on all the time like the heated towel rail, the TV, lights and computers, 3. Using my plan over a four week period to every day turn off all the items on my list and taking daily meter readings to monitor our power usage.
I started my plan by taking daily readings of our power meter for a week without turning any thing off or making any changes, this was to give me an idea on how much power we normally use. I then for the next four weeks put in place stage 3 on my plan. Over all we did make savings except for the last couple of days in week four, this was because my Mum had to use the dryer which dosen't happen often. An other thing was that we had a power bill come in that was for the period when I had been turning every thing off and Mum said it was the cheapest power bill we had received in years, a saving of about 40 dollars.
Here is a summary of our daily power usage below.
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