If you reserve a sauna shift, please remember to use it, as heating the sauna uses a lot of electricity. The energy spent heating the sauna for an unused shift is wasted.
The energy spent heating the sauna for an unused shift is wasted. One one-hour sauna shift consumes approximately 13 kWh. The amount may seem small, but in two weeks during TYS’ sauna shifts, heating the saunas already uses electricity equivalent to the yearly electricity consumption of one single-family house!
You can cancel your sauna shift 2 hours prior, and it will become available for other eager sauna-goers
Turning off an unnecessary light when leaving a room or your apartment you can save energy. For example, every hour a light bulb uses about 0,06 kWh and in six hours it uses approximately 0.36 kWh. This may not seem like a lot, but if every TYS tenant turns off one extra light for six hours every day, in nine days the electricity consumption of one detached house can be saved! If you include other lights as well, these savings can be further increased.
You should also look at the bulbs you use in your lighting. LED lamps are the most energy efficient. So, if you still have light bulbs in your lighting, you should replace them with LED or energy-saving lamps, because they consume six times more energy than LED lamps.
By defrosting the freezer you can help it function more efficiently. Frost buildup can cause your freezer to use up to 25 % more electricity. By defrosting it you also get plenty more space!
By defrosting the freezer, an individual TYS tenant can save approx. 110 kWh of electricity during the year. The amount may seem small, but if 2,000 of the approximately 7,000 TYS tenants keep their freezers free of excess ice, energy equal to the annual electricity consumption of 10 electrically heated single-family houses can be saved!
You can find simple instructions for defrosting the freezer on this video from our ”On the road with TYS staff” series:
By turning off devices you’re not using at home, you can save surprisingly much. For example every hour a laptop uses about 0,03 kWh. If left on all the time, it uses 262,08 kWh per year. This may not seem like a lot, but if every TYS tenant shuts down their laptop for just 12 hours a day, it would save the electricity consumption of about 42 detached houses over the course of a year! If you include other devices as well, these savings can be further increased.
Did you know that a cell phone charger constantly draws energy from the outlet when plugged in? It’s a good idea to always unplug it when it’s not in use.
If the charger is on the outlet for the whole year, without the phone being charged, electricity is consumed around 0.25 kWh. The amount may seem small, but if all TYS tenants unplug the charger from the outlet when they are not using it, an amount of electricity can be saved in a year, which corresponds to ten percent of the annual electricity consumption of one electrically heated single-family house! If you also include computer chargers, you save even more electricity!
By drying your laundry on the rack instead of using the dryer you can save electricity.
How does a movie night or a game night with friends sound? Pretty fun, right? You can even save electricity at the same time!
By having, for example, a six person movie night, you save 5 televisions’ energy consumption for one night. For example, a 32″ to 37″ LCD TV consumes 0.08–0.19 kWh per hour. Which for 6 hours of viewing is 0.48-1.14 kWh. If once a week six people get together to watch one television, 2.4–5.7 kWh is saved per week. If movie night is held every week, savings will already be 124.8–296.4 kWh per year.
A get together also means good food, and you can cook for everyone with just one oven instead of six. For example, using the oven for an hour consumes about 2 kWh per hour. If the same group gets together and cooks with one oven instead of six, 10 kWh is saved per dinner. In a year, it is already 520 kWh.
The amounts may seem small, but if one third of the approximately 7,000 TYS tenants have a get together for six people once a week, in just four weeks, energy equal to the annual electricity consumption of one electrically heated single-family house can be saved!