As summer recedes, making way for the Autumn, we naturally use more electricity. The summer salads get replaced by heartier fare as our hunter-gatherer instincts kick in and try to make us store up the calories for the long cold months ahead. In my part of the world (northern UK), winter seems to start about October and last til about April, so it's a long time until we emerge blinking into the Spring months.
But this year's gonna be different, maybe not in terms of the weather but in terms of my approach in dealing with it. I'll still of course be eating the hearty foods but I won't be cooking them 4 hours in the oven. And I'll be minimising my use of heating this year too. I'll be breaking out draft excluders, going to bed slightly earlier, wearing a thermal t-shirt under my shirt. And hopefully these little tricks will add up to some energy savings.
Electricity suppliers no doubt see their dials spin faster at this time of year, but I'm hoping I can keep the meter in my home at a steady slow tick.
Winter is really a bad season for many people, because in winter we use more electricity when compared to summer season, as electricity rates are going up very often, people are finding it hard to pay the heavy bills.
Posted by: Francis | 12/17/2010 at 04:16 AM