How to go for Home Energy Management?

Light & Bright Colour White Washing of Walls & Roof would reflect more light thus brighten the room sufficiently with less number of light fittings compared to the rooms white washed with dark colors where more light gets absorbed and one has to increase the number of light fittings. This is one way of Energy Management.

Is LP Gas and kerosine included as energy ?

We require to adopt some measures which are easy and common :

-- switch off lights / fans and ACs when not required

-- use machines which are 'energy efficient' - use 4/5 stars machines. These days BES is marking Refrigerators, Washing Machines, ACs with " red stars " meaning most ' 5 star ' is most energy efficient.

--  try to open gates of Refrigerators as less as possible.

-- AC Machine : keep clean. Look that sun-shine does not keep ur rooms heated - this may escalate the electricity needs.

-- in the kitchen, keep watch on use of L.P. Gas. There are several methods to conseve use of gas. Follow those.

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The poor house holds are best energy efficient. They have no electricity - no gas. Such house-holds are many in our country. If the poor are let to develop a further, more energy will be required in India. Dont know how this will be managed - "load-sheddings" are most common in towns and cities these days.

 

 

My greatest teacher was my father ... and in future will be my kid. So physiologically the present matured generation (who has the best potential to change things) gets influenced by there kids. Thus the schools are the key source to start this nuclear reaction. Convince and motivate one teacher to really feel, live and explore ways of living with lesser energy consumption and lower carbon foot prints, and this gets propagated to at least a 100 students per year and those 100 influence at least 200 adults and the chain flows. Its very tragic that we don't yet fully realize that "EVERY REFORM STARTS FROM JUNIOR SCHOOL" To make things better the roots have to be treated well. Its easier than it looks. But its tougher to conceptualize. Nature has easy solutions to all problems. We have to be better explorers. Like a maths problem of high-school when the problem goes tougher to solve, re-visit it from the beginning. Its simply a simple mistake. Things are easier then can be imagined, approach is all that makes the difference.

Lot of technologies are cominup in US/EU to utilise resources during peak/non peak hours, reduce losses, efficently meter and cap.Smart grids are to happen in India and Policy should lead us which to an extent is being imposed by Lending institutions not by our Polity.

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Switching off lights when not in use is good to preach and difficult to practice. Many of us would be witnessing running fans and burning lamps in empty rooms of our homes. Use sensors to automate switching on/off to save energy