Name: Nel Ratchie T.

Cabajar
August 2, 2016
Group No: Group 6
August2,2016

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Section: STEM-PYTHAGORAS

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Household Energy Audit

Introduction
Energy is used every day. Every activity humans do requires energy in some
form. Households are filled with appliances that use electrical energy to make living
more convenient. Televisions, rice cooker, micro ovens, computers, and light bulbs
are some examples of the appliances that use different amount of electrical power,
which is measured in watts. The rate of electricity use in an electric bill which is paid
in terms of kilowatt-hours.
Electric in the Philippines is most generated from the burning of fossil fuels in
coal-and diesel-fired power plants. So every time electricity is used, carbon and
other greenhouse gases are released in the atmosphere .The first step to help
reduce the harmful effects of energy use identifying and understanding how much
energy is used every day.
One simple way to determine expended electricity is to identify the
appliances that use electricity in our homes and then calculate the amount of
electricity each one uses. We can then add up this electricity to figure out the total
electric energy consumed by our household. We can also compare the electricity
used by different appliances to help us make effective choices when we try to save
energy.
Procedure
1. Make an inventory of appliances and electrical items your entire family use at
home. For each one, look for the label that indicates the number of watts it
uses.
2. Fill in how many hours per day this appliance is used in a typical weekday
and a Sunday. Be as accurate as possible.
3. For each appliance, convert the data into the number of kilowatt-hour as of
energy that each one uses. This can be done using the formula :kWh used per
day=(watt rating)(total minutes/60)/1000
4. From your electricity bill, find out the cost of electricity per kWh for your area,
compute for the cost of using it over the given time. Write all your data in a
table similar to the one below.

Electric
Appliances or
Device
Television. Set
Color ,26
Fluorescent
Lamp, 20
Watts(4)
Ceiling fan

Time Used
(min/day)

kWh used
per day

300

0.9

128

900

1.92

14.4

75

900

1.13

Rice Cooker

450

120

0.9

Flat Iron

750

20

0.25

Watt Rating
(W)
180

Total:

5.1

Cost of use
(Php/day)at
Php 7.50/kWh
7

39.4

5.Using the total kWh per day determine the amount of CO2 your entire family
releases into atmosphere per day from your electricity use.Generally,1.5 lb of CO2 is
emitted per kWh, assuming that all our electricity comes from a coal fired power
plant. In the sample table, 1.58 lbs of CO2 was emitted from 1.05 kWh used.
Guide Questions
1. What appliances and electrical items does your family usually use on a
weekday? Ceiling fan and Fluorescent lamp. On a Sunday? Television and
Ceiling fan.
2. How much energy do you consume on a typical weekday and Sunday in kWh
and in pesos? 35.7 kWh, 276Php How about in one whole month? 143/kWh,
1104/Php .
3. How much carbon dioxide does your family emit in a day? 7.65 CO2 In a
month?229.5 CO2
Conclusion:
For a normal house I think our bill is not that expensive compare to the other
family bills. I think that our usage of energy is just enough for our family and we do
not waste electricity on things that is not so important. We conserve electricity as
much as we can, so I conclude that we emit a little CO2 only and I think it is a good
because we help our environment.
Post-Laboratory Questions
1. How do you fell about the results of this activity? I feel relief because I see that
our bills is not that expensive and we dont use to much CO2 .

2. What can you do in order to lessen the amount of carbon dioxide your family
contributes to the atmosphere? I will try to conserve more energy and try to use
woods than a rice cooker in cooking our rice.