To reduce electricity bills you need to focus on all your electric appliances including refrigerators. Refrigerators consume a lot of electricity. Here we will discuss some tips of reducing energy consumption while using refrigerators.

Ensure that your refrigerator is located in a place where it gets a free flow of air all around it and it should be placed at some distance from walls and cabinets as mentioned in manual. Choose a refrigerator of a size based on the needs of your family.

Set up your refrigerator at a place that is away from direct sun rays or heat as heating around fridge degrades its efficiency and forces it to consumes more units for cooling purpose.

Try to keep cooling temperature between 41 degrees to 50 degrees and freezing temperature between 23 degrees to 28 degrees. This temperature is sufficient to solve our purpose.

Condenser coils at the back or bottom of the refrigerator should be cleaned at least twice a year to maximize its efficiency. Cleaning is not very complicated you can use a brush to do so. Ensure that you have unplugged the refrigerator before starting cleaning.

Automatic defrost refrigerators are more convenient to use but for defrosting they need a lot of electricity. A manual defrost refrigerator uses about two-thirds of the energy used by a frost free refrigerator and will save money and energy. Also a thick frost on chilling panels reduces cooling ability so defrost your refrigerator when frost is 0.6 to 1.3 cm thick.

The cool air that is generated inside the refrigerator goes out whenever you opens the door or when the door is leaking. So to conserve electricity try to open the door to required extent and ensure that your door is not leaking. Place a paper half inside and half outside the door while closing it and then try to pull it, if you are able to do so easily means the door is leaking and requires urgent attention.

You need to keep the fridge compartment full in order to save electricity because a refrigerator’s effectiveness increases to a great extent when it is full. There should be space for air to go around all the items kept in the fridge, so try to keep little distance between them. Avoid opening refrigerator’s door frequently in order to save the cool air inside it.

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