Sustainable and money-saving: This is how you can easily curb electricity consumption in everyday life
Self-produced electricity using a photovoltaic system pays off after a few years at the latest
The cheapest and also most sustainable option is to simply produce electricity yourself. This can be achieved, for example, with a photovoltaic system on the roof. Anyone who wants to buy a photovoltaic system does not necessarily have to spend a lot of money. After all, a corresponding purchase is promoted by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, so that buyers can count on attractive discounts here. After a few years at the latest, the installation of such a system has paid off anyway. After all, energy generated from the sun costs nothing and is also considered to be particularly environmentally friendly. Anyone who calls up Solar Direct Invest experiences can find out about all this on the Internet.
If you do not own a home and therefore cannot implement this tip, you should at least switch off your devices completely when you do not need them. While standby mode doesn’t consume much power, the costs add up when many devices are affected. In addition, if possible, devices should not run at the same time if they are not needed at all. Turning off the lights in rooms when no one is in or turning off the TV when you’re working on your laptop or on the phone can make a big difference over the course of the year. Lamps with built-in motion sensors can also help save electricity. Here, however, it makes sense to rely on energy-saving models and light sources.
A lot of energy can be saved, especially when handling food
You certainly don’t have to do without cooking to save electricity. In order to bring water to a boil, however, the stovetop does not necessarily have to be used. A kettle does this preparatory work just as reliably and uses significantly less electricity. In addition, the water normally boils much faster, so that time can also be saved when preparing food. It also makes sense to switch off the oven a few minutes before the meal is ready. After all, an oven stays hot for a long time – the residual heat is therefore completely sufficient to cook the food in this way. In most cases, an oven does not have to be preheated. Often it is not even necessary to use the oven at all. If you own a microwave, you should start using it to heat up or even prepare food. The small device consumes significantly less electricity than an oven or stove. If you want to keep the prepared food in the fridge for one or more days, you should make sure that you let it cool down properly beforehand. Ideally, the refrigerator door should not be left open for too long to put food in or take it out – this also consumes a lot of electricity.