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PERFORMANCE TASK IN GENERAL
PHYSICS II
(HOME ENERGY AUDIT)
Prepared by:
GUTIERREZ, Yna Marie Z.
March 9, 202
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I. Introduction
There are many different ways to reduce your household’s energy use, ranging
from simple behavioral adjustments to extensive home improvements. Energy
conservation must be practice in every home, to save on utility bills and protect the
environment. It can be as simple as turning off lights or appliances when you do not need
them. You can also use energy-intensive appliances less by performing household tasks
manually.
To more understand the energy we consume in our houses we can monitor our
day-to-day basis by doing an energy audit. An energy audit, sometimes referred to as an
energy survey or an energy inventory, is an examination of the total energy used in a
particular property. The analysis is designed to provide a relatively quick and simple
method of determining not only how much energy is being consumed but where and
when. The energy audit is the beginning of and the basis for an effective energy-
management programme.
Each home or building is unique, it is difficult to generalize about energy-
consumption patterns, and so it is necessary to conduct an energy audit for each home.
You can perform home energy audit on your own. No matter which route you take with a
home energy audit, you’ll be able to find room to save energy and money and help reduce
your carbon footprint. Apart from this, it also assesses health and safety issues that might
exist in your home. You’ll also be setting a standard for your family and helping yourself
better understand exactly how you use energy every day, and what types of methods you
can take in the future in order to prevent it from happening in excess.
Doing an energy audit can help you identify the ways to save energy for your
home. This way you can set as an example for rest of the people and let them know how
you managed to bring down your electricity bills and what steps they can take to take
advantage of the same. By adopting small energy saving methods by large number of
households can certainly bring down energy consumption and make this planet safe for
our future generations to come.
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II. Objectives
We use energy in our lives everyday. Every activity that we perform requires
energy in some form. Even simple functions like walking to the store or to school require
energy. Our homes are filled with appliances that use electrical energy to work for us.
Toasters, microwave ovens, televisions, and computers are some examples of the
appliances we use everyday. We compare electrical energy use in units called watt-hours
or kilowatt-hours.
Our appliances might be “leaking” electricity. Many appliances never stop using
electricity, even when they are turned off. For example, if your TV has a remote, then
part of the TV is always on “standby mode” so it’s ready to receive the signal from the
remote to turn on. If there is a clock on the stove, this is always drawing electricity even
though the stove is turned off. If we leave our cell phone chargers plugged into the wall,
it is using electricity even when we don’t have our cell phones plugged into the charger.
Experts call this usage “standby consumption” or “leaking electricity.” Although
a single appliance usually only leaks a small amount of electricity, the total amount of
leaking electricity consumption in a household can be significant.
The purpose/objective of this activity is to learn more about the amount of
electrical energy used by different activities at home. We do this by calculating the
energy consumption of various appliances around our homes.
III. Procedure
1. Use the “Tips for Energy Audit” to help you get started.
Some Tips for the Energy Audit:
1.1. Before you start, walk around your house with your printout to make
sure you haven’t overlooked any major appliance. Don’t forget things like clocks
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and aquariums that run 24 hours a day. Pay particular attention to your own room
– after all, that’s where you can make the most difference!
1.2. Because you can’t be everywhere at once, get your family to help!
Give others a copy of the printout and ask them to be responsible for different
things in the house, for example make one person responsible to track TV use,
another washing machine use, and so on.
1.3. Try to make day 1 a typical work or school day:
a.) Make note of the first major electrical uses of the day – lights, kitchen
area, blow dryers…
b.) If someone stays at home while you are at school, ask that person to
track use for the day
c.) When you come home from school, make sure you track your own
use of computer, TV, stereo, etc.
d.) Peak energy hours for most families during the week are in the
evening, when cooking, watching TV, homework, and hobbies are all happening
at once. You may need help tracking all of these!
e.) When day 1 is over, add up all of the hours of use for each appliance
and plug the total into your personal energy meter worksheet – on paper or on the
computer.
1.4. If possible, determine the power consumed by appliances when
they are “off.” Many appliances consume power at all times in “stand by mode,”
which enables them to turn on quickly.
1.5. Days 2 through 5 should follow pretty much the same pattern, just be
aware of special changes to the routine that may affect energy use.
1.6. If days 6 and 7 fall on the weekend, expect very different energy
usage patterns. You’ll probably notice that appliances are used all day long, but
not all at the same time. It takes good detective work to keep up with it all!
1.7. At the end of day 7, put your final usage figures into the table and
check out the grand total, in kWh and dollars.
2. List all electricity consuming appliances/lights in your house.
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3. Determine the wattage for each of the power consuming appliances or lights in
your house, enter into the table using one row for each light bulb or appliance.
4. Record the time that each of the power consuming appliances is on for each day
of 1 week.
5. Identify which of the appliances consume energy even in the hours they are off.
If possible, estimate the watts consumed in stand by mode through the use of a
power meter, appliance manual, or an internet search. (or use the tables provided).
6. Fill out the energy use tables – either the excel spreadsheet version or paper copy
data sheet. There is one table for appliances when they are on and another for
leaking electricity.
7. Create a graph of energy used by each appliance. Take notice of which appliances
use the most energy and which use the least.
8. Calculate the energy used and cost of energy used energy (kWh)=
power(W)/1000 X time(h).
9. Answer the discussion questions.
IV. Discussion
1. What three appliances consume the most electrical energy at your house?
The top 3 appliances that consume the most electricity in our home are;
Electric fans, there are 10 electric fans in our home and it always being use by may niece
day and night. Especially this month because there are many people from agoncillio who
currently living our home due of the taal volcano. The next one is washing machine
eventhough we only use it like 2x per week it still a big consumer. And lastly, refrigerator
is another big power drain because the our refrigerator run 24 hours per day.
2. Does an appliance or device that has a high wattage always use the most energy
over the week or month? Explain.
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From what I observe in our home, appliances that has a high wattage are not
always the most energy consumer. Because it depends on how long and often we use it.
For example the flat iron in our home which is 1000 wattage. It is not include in our top 3
because we don’t use it that long. While our top 1 the refrigerator is only 51 wattage yet
it concume the most because we use it 24/7.
3. What do you think you could do to reduce the amount of energy used in your
house?
There are many ways to reduce home energy. In my home, I can reduce our
electrical bill by manually doing things instead of always using an appliances. Like for
example washing machine. If I have a lot of time I can do laundry with my own hands
rather than using the machine especially when there are not to many clothes. The
appliances that are big eater of electricity should be use wisely. Like dryer, heater and flat
iron, I will limit myself in using those appliances. If I see a plug electronic devices like
mobile phone charger and the phone is not connected anymore, I will remove it. Almost
all the time we forget to remove it and it is really a problem in our home because even it
is not being used it still consumed energy. Another thing I can do is to turn off
appliances that is not being used, most especially our lights.
Remember that there is a connection between how much electricity you use and
our environment. My personal changes might seem small, but momentum and progress
will become visible as more people become conscious of the effects of their electricity
use. Until the time when we can fully depend on renewable energy sources, contribute to
our collective effort of preserving natural resources and slowing down the effect of global
warming.
4. Electrical energy is one of the critical energy resources in our daily lives.
Describe how you might replace the work of all of the appliances or devices if
you did not have electricity?
Electricity is the epicenter of everything that we do. It is the foundation that
provides light, entertainment, heat, comfort, information and so much more. The use of
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electricity made our life easy and comfortable and it’s hard to imagine a life without it.
As we know before electricity, humankind had managed their life quite well but of course
they live by doing everything with manual labor that takes lots of their time. It may be
very inconvenient but without electricity we must put more effort in living.
If electricity disappears, I must be prepared on how I will replace all those works
of all the electrical appliances inside our home. Without lights, I will use a lamp or a
candle to brighten up our home when it is dark. Without washing machine, I will have to
do laundry with my own hands and then exposed it to the sun to dry. Without rice cooker,
I will have to start a fire, add firewood and suspend the container over the fire. Without
refrigerator, I will used different ways to keep our food fresh for longer like drying,
smoking, boiling and preservation. Putting such as fruits and greens in a storage can with
water to avoid rotting. Without fans, I will have to wear less inside our home, open our
windows let the wind go in and putting plants inside our home to have fresh air inside.
Without internet and gadgets, there is no Facebook, Google, games, music etc. therefor I
will have to socialize with people who are only close to me, I will have to read a book to
get information, I will have to try indoor and outdoor games to entertain myself.
Moreover, living may be hard without electricity but our life doesn’t only depend on it
because there is so much we can do. We are capable of many things and we will always
find an alternative ways.
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V. Table of Appliances with Wattages
APPLIANCES WATTAGES
1. ORBIK LED Eco Bulb 10
2. MITSU TECH Stand Fan 50
3. ORBIK LED Eco Bulb 15
4. MITSU TECH Desk Fan 50
5. ASTRON Stand Fan 45
6. MIKATA Television 79
7. ORBIK LED Eco Bulb 15
8. MITSU TECH Wall Fan 55
9. SHARP Television 62
10. LG Aircon 660
11. ORBIK LED Eco Bulb 15
12. ORBIK LED Eco Bulb 15
13. Hanabishi Stand Fan 55
14. Eureka Desk Fan 50
15. PLDT Home l DSL 9
16. SHARP Television 62
17. Hanabishi Automatic Iron 1000
18. Pioneer DVD System 45
19. ORBIK LED Eco Bulb 15
20. CONDURA Refrigerator 51
21. MITSU TECH Stand Fan 50
22. Eureka Rice Cooker 500
23. Eureka Rice Cooker 500
24. Micromatic Rice Cooker 500
25. 3D Blender 350
26. OMNI LED Bulb 6
27. OMNI LED Bulb 6
28. Philips Hairdryer 1000
29. SHARP Washing Machine 650
30. OMNI LED Bulb 6
31. OMNI LED Bulb 6
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Table 1. Appliances with Wattages
VI. Excel
Table 2. Personal Energy Meter
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VII. Conclusion
After being tasked of doing an Energy Audit in our home, I concluded that
nowadays each homes are outfitted with many electronics and appliances that
consume so much of our electrical energy. Most of our daily tasks depents on
electricity, for cleaning, comfort, entertainment and so much more. And sometimes or
most of the time we take advantage of what we have. Our act of foolishness such as
leaving our appliances plug even we don’t use it, is something that must be change as
soon as possible. We should be aware of its importance. Plus, put in mind the fact the
our source of electrical energy is only limited. If we don’t make a move and abuse it
more, it will disappear and our pleasure will also fade.
A home energy audit make me understand how we consume electricity on a daily
bases. I learned that our cooling appliances such as air-conditioner, electrc fan and
refrigerator and heating appliances such as flat iron and heater consume more than
any other system in our household. And the time and frequency of using it really
affect our electrical bills.
VIII. Recommendation
After this project I will still continue doing this task to monitor our bill, and
try to reduce it. I advice that everyone should make their own home energy audit
because it is really effected especially if you have a goal in doing this task. We should
all be aware of how the system work so that we can find a solution. It might be a
small step but if many people do this and learn not to abuse electricity then it is really
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an achievement for all of us. We should all learn to save energy to save our bill and
most espeacilly our environment.
As a mentioned before, heating and cooling cost more money than any other
system in our household. Therefore, we should select energy efficient cooling and
heating equipment, and use it properly. We can also stop unwanted heat transfer by
choosing more efficient appliances for our home. Making our home energy efficient
includes reducing electricity. Although lighting might not seem expensive, it is
certainly a factor that contributes to our energy loss. Try to upgrade with LEDs and
CFLs reduces energy loss. In addition, we should make more use of sunlight and
natural daylight to lower our utility bill.
We should know that energy conservation is very important and beneficial for
many reasons. We can save money, and protect the environment all through simple
energy-saving measures. These are great benefits we can gain from saving energy. By
simply taking a small step towards living a more energy-conscious lifestyle, we can
begin to enjoy all of the perks of being energy efficient.
The very first advantage of performing a home energy audit is that it will help
you save money on your utility bills depending on what kind of upgrades you make to
your home. You could save 5% to 30 % no your electricity bill by making upgrades
identified in your home energy audit. When you reduce your energy needs, it will
automatically reduce your carbon footprint which can reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. Fixing air leakage, proper insulation, using maximum daylights, changing
old appliances with energy efficient ones, using less electricity for heating are few of
the ways that can help reduce your impact on the environment.
Again, lets all save electricity to save money and environment.
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IX. Application
Energy audit is beneficial to be done inside a home or a building and it can
contribute to lessen our electricity as it make us aware of the amount of electricity we
consumed, as well as what appliances use large electricity. If the whole community are
doing the energy audit and have their own goal then we can really reduce the waste
electricity of the community. Therefore, this simple noting of electricity can be a big
factor in saving our energy sources.
Home energy audit is recommended to everyone so that they can assess their
consumption of energy. The most advantages of it is that we can have a less electric bill
to pay and we can save our planet. It might be a small step but if everyone of us are doing
this then we help to maintain our sources.
X. Interpretation
For the month of December and January our electric bill is P 1400 to P 1300,
while for the month of February our electric bill decrease of almost P 200. From 1400 to
1100, is already a big change. Eventhough, half of this month the taal volcano evacuees
are still staying with us. They used the first and third room which had an air conditioner,
television, wall fan, and stand fan. Gladly, they did not use the air conditioner that have a
600 wattage. Also, my sister family is always on our house, using our electricity. It’s hard
to lessen the electricity because it hard to control the usage of many people inside the
house but through enogh disiciplne it can be attain.
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We tried our best not to waste any electricity. But of course, we have our needs
such as thermal comfort. Also, we have apppliances that must be on 24/7 that consume so
much electricity such as refrigator and the pldt wifi.
Moreover, it’s a good thing that we managed to make it less than the previous
one. Again, it was kind of amazing cause somehow my effort, as well as my family
perseverance of turning the lights off, removing chargers, not using so much appliances is
worth it, as we gladly achieved our goal for the month of February.
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Interpretation
The electric bill for the month of February is lower than the month of the
January, From php 563.00 to php . Even though there is just a little decrease on the
amout, the big thing is that we conserve or lessen the energy consumed. Different ways
of conserving energy was done, there are times that the refrigerator was turned off or
defrost and the time spent in a certain appliance was limited. For example, before ,the
television was used for about 9-10 hours per day, and now we tried to limit it from 9-10
hours to 5-6 hours per day and it really helps to lessen the amout due.
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