Air conditioners save electricity

40 energy-efficient air conditioners (air conditioners) have been installed for households in the city. HCM. All of these machines are implemented by Ho Chi Minh City Energy Saving Center (ECC) in cooperation with Japanese air conditioner companies such as Panasonics, Sharp and Toshiba.

Electrical meter mounted in air conditioner to provide energy saving indicator (Photo: San Thai)

ECC will monitor the power consumption of these air conditioners through the power meter placed in the machine. Since then, power consumption will be recorded on the computer.

During the trial of this type, households will be supported 50% of installation costs, 500,000 VND of electricity per month. The study will be carried out within 6 months, after obtaining specific results, ECC will continue to deploy additional 1,500 energy-saving air conditioners.

According to statistics in 2011, all kinds of air conditioners can save 70% of electricity consumption (in Hanoi), 40% of electricity consumption in the city. HCM. Explaining the different power consumption in cities is due to different electricity and temperature use culture between regions .