Yearlong Project October Update

THE PLAN-

The family project that I will use is to when we are sleeping, we can set a timer for the fan so that the fan won't be on until next morning when we get unconscious, to turn off any electronics that is left on when we're going on a trip, being sure to unplug machines as they have stand-by functions that consume energy even though they are turned off, keeping doors or windows shut when the air conditioner is on, turning off the water when I am brushing my teeth because it will not only save water but it will also save the electricity it takes to pump and heat the water, and so on. By setting a timer for the fan around 3 hours, it can save electricity by automatically turning it self off. Although our family uses the fans at full maximum power, we can save time so that we can cut down on our energy consumption. According to the manager of my apartment, our apartment has around 200<x<300 air conditioners (x is the amount of air conditioners there are but the management is not so sure)... The air conditioners are used around 5 times a week with more than 50hours. They are not used at night in all of the bedrooms, as there are more fans than air conditioners in our apartment.

Reflecting on my electricity monthly table, my family has been doing great at decreasing the amount of Kwh and meeting the goals listed above. For the first month, I had 636kwh but on the next month, my electricity bill was 550kwh, which is a decrease of 86kwh. For September to October, my electricity consumption has decreased from 550kwh to 507kwh, which is a decrease of 43kwh. I think that the reason for this decrease is because one of my "family" members went back to Cambodia last month (my maid). My maid also consumes electricity so since she is gone, I am not surprised that my monthly electricity consumption had decreased. My family also has done many ways that have mentioned above. Due to this project, our family had saved both the amount of energy used and our economic finances. Before this project, my family was doing a decent job on having a stable low energy consumption as we didn't use air conditioners at night, and other ways that didn't consume that much electricity. We used to have a maid living in our house until the first week of October, she decided to quit her job and fly back to Cambodia to visit her sick dad. This had even more decreased my family consumption as my maid who used fans, mobile chargers, and other electronic devices left. According to the management office, they say that there are approximately 223 air conditioners in this apartment (including the office). The temperature that my family sets is various although the most common temperature that we use is 23 degrees Celsius. For my family, we roughly use 2 hours on an average day although the air conditioners are mostly used to keep the teachers comfortable. Our family uses the air conditioners to make the air in the room cooler than with the fan as it helps to keep a cool temperature for my saxophone to protect it from humidity, and to make the air cooler than a fan. Recently, I have asked the management office and they stated that the total amount of hours the whole apartment consumes is around 34 hours. My family only uses 6% rounded for the total hours of air conditioners used in my apartment, which means that we aren't using that much electricity for the air conditioners. Not only does our family uses air conditioners, but we also use electricity for TV's. In our family, we have 2 TV's in total and we use them about 4 hours a day. The management doesn't know the real amount of televisions in my apartment although in the last two years, they did a survey to all the people in the apartment. The amount of TV's listed on the survey was 98. In a day, they said that 22 hours is the amount of hours the whole apartment uses. My family only uses about 9% rounded out of the total amount of hours used for the television per day. To talk more about my family habits, my family doesn't watch that much TV these days as before as the only thing that our family uses it is to watch news and sports and the amount of homework that my brother and I have collides this too. My mom and dad are starting to not watch the TV but use their Samsung Galaxy Tabs and phones to watch documentaries on their tablets, which I can say is conserving electricity and the TV usage. To conclude, this data table above shows me that my family is doing decent job on decreasing the amount of energy used although I can't guarantee that it will keep on decreasing even more.