Reduce your carbon footprint – and your electricity bill
03 Feb 2010, 12:05 PM
Aishath Shazra
Mariyam Wafa, 25, lives in a two bedroom flat. By changing the light bulbs in her sitting room to energy saving bulbs, she claims her electricity bill dropped by Rf200.
In most homes lighting accounts for 10 to 15% of electricity bills. Simply changing to energy saving light bulbs can save up to 80% of the energy of normal bulbs.
“We can’t give an exact figure for how much you can save as no studies have been done in Maldives, and different brands and lights differ,” says Ahmed Rauf, engineer of STELCO.
However he says it’s always better to buy trusted brands ‘to avoid getting a 10 watt bulb instead of the 5 watt one as mentioned, because we have come across such cases.”
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