ENERGY CONSERVATION

The development of any state depends on the availability of resources and electricity is a resource that its availability and usage can speed up the growth and can raise the standard of its consumer, magically. Haryana is a growing state and major input in its developmental growth is electricity. The power sector of Haryana is making efforts to increase capacity of power generation successfully, but being the pace of development faster than generation there is a gap between demand and supply of electricity.

So conservation of electricity by consumers in an easier way, involving no cost but a little effort, comes out to be the resolution to save the energy for filling the gap between demand and supply. It is not only necessary to fulfill this gap but also to reduce the pace of fast depleting resources of renewable electricity in our country. Considering the prevailing situation, it s responsibility of society to look at the problem and make attempts to ensure proper and judicious use of electricity.

When we think about reasons of electricity consumption rate, the biggest reason comes out to be the use of more energy consuming electric gadgets and equipments which may be cheaper to purchase but are very expensive to operate and out of these most commonly used equipment is “Incandescent lamp” or “the Electric bulb”. India lives in its villages as the major population density is there at the villages and small towns. Such energy consuming equipments are more popular in our rural areas as they are economical to purchase but ignorance of the fact that they are most expensive to operate, rural population end up paying 3 to 5 times more than its closest alternative equipment CFL.

Below mentioned chart is explaining how we end up paying more by use of electric bulb.

	Monthly electricity consumption (Kwh)				One unit will be consumed in:
	Wattage	One hour/day	Six hour/day	12 hours /day
Electric Bulb	25	.75	4.5	90	40 hrs.
	40	1.2	7.2	14.4	25 hrs
	60	1.8	10.8	21.6	16 hrs 40 min
	100	3	18	36	10 hrs
CFL	7	.21	1.26	2.52	143 hrs
	11	.33	1.98	3.96	90hrs 55 min
	15	.39	2.34	4.68	77 hrs
	25	.81	4.5	9	37 hrs

Source: Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam.

In Haryana 18 % of its Total power production is used for lighting only. And most of the rural population is using incandescent bulbs of inferior quality. But 95% of total consumption by a bulb is actually gets converted into heat energy and rest of the 5% is used to covert light. On the contrary a 20 watt florescent lamp can produce light equal to 100 watt bulb with only 5% heat conversion as compared to the bulb.
We are going to save energy of worth 33.5 Lakhs in coming 25 months for kharindwa by cfl distribution under the programme of energy conversation.