Electric energy saving tips for Refrigerator.

Refrigerator is the appliances which runs 24 hours a day and 365 days. It is very crucial to pay attention to energy-saving performance of refrigerator. Recent energy-saving refrigerator are saving ½ electricity compare to the refrigerator 10 years back. Evolution in insulation is playing a major role in the improvement of efficiency. With a same installation space, recent refrigerator’s volume also has increased.

 

1. Saving electricity by replacing the refrigerator

As I mentioned earlier recent refrigerator has more energy efficient and save 50% of electricity compared to 10 years old refrigerator. If you buy new refrigerator to replace the old one it will recover the refrigerator amount by saving on electricity. This is the reason you should go for the new energy efficient refrigerator.

 

2. Save power by suppressing packing

For proper cooling of storage food, proper and regular air circulation inside the refrigerator is needed. If you pack too much of food in the refrigerator, it badly impacts the air circulation in the refrigerator. Also, it takes time to take out the food from over stacking refrigerator causing cold air to escape from the refrigerator to ambient result in to loosing of inside temperature. It is advisable to use 70% of the usable space to have better cooling in less time and to save energy.

In the freezer, frozen food next to each other transfer the heat to each other. So be careful while stocking the frozen food.

 

3. Save electricity by opening the area around the refrigerator

Refrigerator generate some amount of heat around it. This is natural. For dissipation of these generated heat by refrigerator required enough space around the freezer to have better cooling. Make sure that your refrigerator has clear gap from all sides of the refrigerator. If your freezer is touching against the wall, heat dissipation process will decrease and will have effect on cooling and ultimately in consuming of excess energy.

 

4. Power saving considering the set temperature

By setting proper temperature energy can be saved drastically. Adjust the temperature setting considering the amount of contents and season. In summer initially you can adjust the setting to strong or high and then after setting can be adjusted to medium. In winter medium or lower setting is also enough as ambient temperature is low. Higher setting requires higher energy.

 

5. Insert hot items to save power

Do not keep hot food like rest of the dinner and milk directly in the refrigerator. When you keep hot stuff in the refrigerator the temperature inside the refrigerator rises and extra energy is consumed to cool it. Keep hot food or stuff in the ambient temperature till temperature drops up to ambient and then keep them in the refrigerator.

 

6. Save energy by using the refrigerator curtain

Strip curtains or refrigerator curtain prevent cold air leakage from refrigerator to ambient and restrict entry of ambient air in the freezer which save the energy. Curtains are used in freezer section most of the times where usages are heavy.