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Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Kingpele(m): 10:08am On Apr 29 |
Good advice |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Demurray: 10:10am On Apr 29 |
Sheuns:Change your location |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Bfly: 10:10am On Apr 29 |
Even house without meter wey no den don disconnect from the grid still dey collect bill. E no easy |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by rinaballa: 10:11am On Apr 29 |
jmoore:i guess the minister AC is off n he uses only standing fan, or he gets AC allowance |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by rinaballa: 10:13am On Apr 29 |
Orire01: I need a dell gaming laptop under 350k, can i turn in a laptop n add money to it |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by patrickcollins: 10:17am On Apr 29 |
Goodlady:Someone uses a shared meter but the wife will always use washing machine regularly and some persons said he is entitled to use the property he has but he wants to pay equal money with those that do not use washing machine no be wickedness be that 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by hslbroker2(m): 10:20am On Apr 29 |
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Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by casualobserver: 10:20am On Apr 29 |
kingzjay: There was a time many years ago when the AC in my room was on 24/7 whether I was home or not because I liked coming home to a cool room. The tarrif increase before this one was when I stopped. I live in an area with stable electricity and electricity was very cheap. I also remember when I was a child that my dad always left the AC in his office on. So to that point the minister has a point that subsidizing electricity had inculcated bad habits in us as a people. The example he gave about freezer was a bad one. 1) because a lot of freezers don’t actually consume much power and 2) AC is the real power guzzler. It was when I first installed solar when diesel went to N700 that I realized just how much power ACs consume and that all the noise I was making in the house over people leaving lights on was inconsequential relative to what the ACs consume. When I lived abroad then no born me to leave ordinary light bulb on if I am not in the room talk less leave the house heater on when I am out. Same with petrol…the way I drove abroad with expensive petrol (and more importantly the constant questioning if the journey is necessary) was different from In Nigeria with cheap petrol. Subsidies do indeed create bad habits. Nigeria is a very unproductive country and one (I said one not “the”) reason is subsidies in almost everything, petrol, forex, tertiary education, electricity etc. when everything is subsidized you lose creativity and innovation and ultimately your productivity. In lay man’s language you become lazy and entitled when things are done for you. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by engrpheleeks(m): 10:33am On Apr 29 |
umpire1st: Wetin u dey use apart from AC and fridge? Do you use hotplate or boiling ring? |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by ppogba: 10:33am On Apr 29 |
Shey dem dey tell blind man say rain dey fall ni? At this point in time, who needs a motivational speaker to teach them how to reduce electricity cost? |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by ppogba: 10:38am On Apr 29 |
casualobserver: Thank you for your truthful personal experience. The one bad attitude that is most common is people leaving their house security light on perpetually. Over a kilometer to my house, I will know if there is light or not just by looking out for lights that are never put off. 2 Likes |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by CooldipoMPS: 10:38am On Apr 29 |
I have the right power solution for you basic needs....see footnote |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by engrpheleeks(m): 10:39am On Apr 29 |
patrickcollins: They should buy meter reader and install it. It will calculate the amount of units each apartment is consuming. 2 Likes |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by ppogba: 10:40am On Apr 29 |
patrickcollins: It is not wickedness. It is Witchcraft. Many are witches only few are aware. 1 Like |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by lbrichman2: 10:42am On Apr 29 |
casualobserver: I completely agree with you.. I currently use a Solar System that can gives me 100W of energy for 10hrs if fully charged This has made me somewhat energy efficient.. I turn off bulbs not in use, same with fans and other appliances.. I got the Solar System when the Electricity situation was very bad this year... When it improved a bit, my new habits of energy efficiency kicked in.. Any appliances not in use are turned off This has also saved me money because the last time I bought units on my meter was in February and I only bought 5k If we all become a little bit more proactive with saving energy, we will cut off a lot of unnecessary costs.. 6 Likes |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by kkins25(m): 10:43am On Apr 29 |
Ceiling fans do more work and might consume less than standing fans which aren't sufficient when your room is large. |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by casualobserver: 10:48am On Apr 29 |
ppogba: In fairness, security lights are necessary and especially in these days of LED lightbulbs they don’t consume much. AC is the real power guzzler. AC can consume in 1hr what your lights will consume the whole night. As an example if I were relying solely on NEPA (no solar). And do not use AC for a whole month, my electricity bill will be approx 70-100k a month at the new band A rate of 246/kWh. If I used my AC reasonably for a month, it would be N700k a month. If I used AC like I used to 10 years ago, God knows what the NEPA bill would be today. NOTE: these AC,s are normal compressor ACs. Inverter ACs will be less but still a lot. 2 Likes |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by CaptainFM1: 10:53am On Apr 29 |
Don't iron clothes. And if you must iron, iron 10 to 20 clothes at a time. Don't be switching on pressing iron every single day to iron one by one. 1 Like |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by 3kay945(m): 10:54am On Apr 29 |
Righthussle: Move out of that area. You can come my area, na Band D we dey. 2hrs or so hours in a week. 2 Likes |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by trappatoni(m): 11:02am On Apr 29 |
Hahaha...las las everybody go dey on solar...24/7... Cindypresh: 1 Like |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Thoughty2(m): 11:02am On Apr 29 |
jmoore: Fridge on for 24hrs? Are you in Nigeria? 1 Like |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by superCleanworks(m): 11:05am On Apr 29 |
jmoore: Abeg shut up. Government brings a policy that we should all fight against and reject but here you are telling people to use energy saving bulbs. What a very stale update. Just incase you just crawled out of your cave, 90% of the bulbs used by Nigerians in the past 5 years is energy saving. If you like switch off all your bulbs for a full year, the unjustifiable bill will still come to your door if you HAVE NOT BEEN ISSUED a prepaid meter. STOP GLORIFICATION OF TRASH POLICIES 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by AbujaLagos: 11:07am On Apr 29 |
In addition buy smart switch, smart socket and sensor switch. They give you timing option, you can program when you want them to be power on/off. You can control them from wherever you are in the world |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by ppogba: 11:11am On Apr 29 |
casualobserver: Majority of this light I am talking about are those 60W, 120W of those days. Even when using the ones that consume less power, security light at the frontage of homes are meant to be off immediately it is day break. I am not aware of anywhere they are meant to be indicators. Fron my experience, even in UK, you pass through several homes at night and the lights at the frontage are off even when the residents are in. This I have seen. Bottom line: Our attitude. |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by WantsandMore: 11:11am On Apr 29 |
casualobserver:If we never left the organic architectural designs of our ancestors we wouldn't be here. Houses aren't built with purpose nowadays just aethestics and very little depth. 2 Likes |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by faceland: 11:19am On Apr 29 |
Don't worry. It is those who have electricity that worry about managing it. |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by SmartNYSC: 11:19am On Apr 29 |
AbujaLagos:How please? |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Yashita: 11:31am On Apr 29 |
Why each and every state cannot independently produce their own electricity in this country? If each state can, there would be sufficient electricity to supply. This national thing really can't sustain a wide nation of over 220 million people. Our governments need to think outside the box and act. 1 Like |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Orire01(m): 11:40am On Apr 29 |
rinaballa: No sir, we do direct sales only but you can hit me up on whatsapp to discuss more. Whatsapp number still on this signature |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Adewale1603(m): 11:44am On Apr 29 |
Which electricity we wan manage again ? They are already managing it for us like that by default with the way they are giving us the electricity. That point 5, instead of gas, go and get a charcoal stove, very fast, economical and cheaper in the long run |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by Martinez39s(m): 11:45am On Apr 29 |
Re: How To Manage Electricity In Your Homes by casualobserver: 11:50am On Apr 29 |
WantsandMore: It’s part of the inefficiencies of decades of subsidies in all aspects of our lives. Like you said even our house designs pay no consideration to energy consumption because energy was so cheap. Big rooms require more energy to cool, we do t design houses for natural cooling etc etc. this inefficiencies caused by subsidies is pervasive in all aspects of Nigerian life and it’s why we have nothing to export because we are so inefficient our products are not competitive with t(e exception of Crude Oil and even the. We’ve managed to cripple that industry because the Nigeria. Pysche has not been programmed to be efficient. Ask anyone who lives abroad, even window glazing to keep the heat/cold in, door and window seals to keep out air draft and possible heat exchanges to keep the home cooling/heating more efficient are a big deal. Ask a typical Nigerian how much power his appliances use he doesn’t know. The average westerner considers the fuel consumption of his car or the wattage and efficiency of his appliances as a factor in purchasing decisions. The good thing is hopefully we have started a process that can’t be reversed, Nigerians will be forced to focus on fuel/energy consumption in their purchase choices. 3 Likes |
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