Power Cut – Saving Electricity

As regular readers will know we have been having a pragmatic approach to saving some electricity recently. We’re still using the electricity monitor and have been keeping the usage down which is good. It is summer of course so we shouldn’t be using much anyway, but hopefully come winter we’ll be careful with our energy consumption too.

Despite living in a brand new, energy efficient house though quite a few of our windows have large gaps around them which let in draughts and sand and obviously let out heat in the winter so I’ve started sealing these off which will hopefully help the energy consumption too.

Of course living at the end of the line means that we get plenty of power cuts too. A quick search through this blog and there are quite a few reports of loss of power and such like so this can on occasion help is save electricity too! We had a quick power cut on Friday afternoon with the power going off for a minute or so… Still enough to shut down all of the computers too abrubtly for my liking and of course reset all of the clocks etc. And then it went off for about an hour around dinner time. According to the electricity company a bird flew into the line earlier in the day when the power first went off and then they switched it off at dinner time to repair it… I’m not sure how a bird manages to cause such disruption but it did!

It did mean that our energy consumption for the day was a little lower than normal though, just 4Kwh

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Alan Cole

Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.