Know Your Electricity Consumption: The Meralco Appliance Calculator

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Know Your Electricity Consumption: The Meralco Appliance Calculator

The cost of electricity keeps on rising. In our household, our consumption reached more than Php 9,000 per month. Our major electricity guzzler are 2 aircons, 3 televisions and 2 big refridgerator.

There's actually a way to predict or estimate how much a particular appliance will consume electricity. This handy tool is called the Meralco Appliance Calculator. Aside from estimitating the electricity cost of each appliance, this tool will also help you compare the consumption cost when buying new appliances.

Here are some interesting facts:

• The biggest electricity consumer is our aircon. A 1 HP aircon would consume Php 1,241 a month when used 6 hours a day. Try using it only for 4 hours and your bill drops to Php 827 a month
• Refridgerators are not expensive to maintain. A 10 cu. ft fridge consume only Php 580 a month. And it's on 24 hours a day!
• A 21" TV only accounts for Php 88 a month if used for only 3 hours a day.
• One 20w flourescent lamp, turned on for 4 hours a day cost only Php 34 a month

Hmm, I wonder how come our electricity is Php 9,000 when the above rates are not that expensive????