Project 2 - Intial Research

Over the holidays I observed myself and my families behaviour with energy usage in our house. During the peak time of around 7:00pm my family of 5 would be at home with a lot of devices on. The kitchen would be all on, the lounge with TV and stereo, my bedroom with TV, xbox, stereo and computer, my brothers bedroom, with tv, stereo and computer, the laundry aswell as most of the lights in the house. A lot of devices would be on at one point that wouldnt need to be. For instance the hallway light was on most of the night and there was never anyone in it. My brother and I would come out to the lounge and leaving all our computers, tvs and gaming consoles on. Lights were sometimes left on over night. Almost all the tv's, the microwave, the stereo's and some other devices were left on standby over night. The current power bill for my family is 300 dollars a month. This can be reduced just by simply turning devices off.