Pay attention to the details before turning off the air conditioning. You don’t know it, but it keeps consuming: here’s everything you need to know.
We are in a time when a lot of attention is paid to energy saving . Many Italian families are struggling with rising prices and it is therefore very important to take consumption into account. This way you can try to save even if it is not easy.
Prices are high and electricity costs much more. In the stifling heat of July it was impossible not to turn on the air conditioning and it will be the same in August. However, you must be careful because there is one detail that you must take into account when you are about to turn it off and that you must not overlook because it costs money.
If you want to understand more, all you have to do is continue reading in the next paragraph. In fact, we will explain how consumption occurs even when you switch to standby mode . Every appliance switches to this and works even if we don’t think about how much money it makes us spend. But let’s see more below.
Air conditioning in standby: consumption
As we have just said, let’s see how much the air conditioner consumes when it is in stand-by mode . This mode is nothing more than a waiting state. The device is ready to be used quickly thanks to a remote control or a simple button. It is usually marked with a light but not always.
Air conditioning is one of the household appliances that consumes the most energy when left on standby compared to video game consoles, microwaves, electric coffee makers and others. In fact, air conditioning consumes energy even when it is off because it actually continues to absorb air.
The standby consumption of the air conditioner ranges from a minimum of 2 W to a maximum of 80 W. Considering that the cost of electricity is 0.50, the consumption is considerable. This price may vary from your energy contract and you can check it in the contract you have with the utility company.
So, you can spend between 1 euro and 40 euros on the air conditioning in standby mode. But you also have to add to this the rest of the appliances. We can’t turn them all off, like the refrigerator, but we can turn off others. In fact, we want to offer you two possible solutions .
Solutions to avoid stand-by of household appliances
There is a solution to reduce the waiting time for household appliances. The most immediate solution would be to disconnect every time you use an appliance , from the television to the coffee maker or the microwave. But something like that is almost unthinkable.
This is why you might want to consider using a power strip on your TV/gaming station so that everything can be switched off with a simple button. Or you might want to consider using a programmable power strip , i.e. a socket on which you set a timer.
