At the beginning of this autumn I faced one problem – the lights started to go out in my city. Regularly, for several hours. 

Our region was one of the first to be bombed by the damned russians. Long before the massive strikes in November, we suffered severe damage, which led to stabilizing power outages.

Since that time, I began to look at the light, at the energy in the outlet, in a slightly different way. I saw this great human achievement as something more than a means to power our electrical devices.

power lines in sunset colors orange background Silhouette Of Power Lines And Substation Against Sunset, Energy Crisis

First, I started saving. I completely stopped using powerful electrical appliances, which I can easily live without. This is a boiler and an electric kettle. Both consume 3 kilowatts. I think it is too much.

I heat the water with gas now. A little longer, less convenient, but it is also much cheaper and, in addition, relieves the electricity network.

Secondly, I began to enjoy energy, light, everything that works on electricity. I rediscovered the world of these important things for us.

Unlike many, I have a rather limited set of electricity consumption. For a comfortable life, I only need a refrigerator and a computer, they take 90%, the remaining 10% are lamps and recharging gadgets. I don’t count the washing machine, because I used it only twice in a month. And I can live without it too.

Consumption monitor

About a month ago, when the massive attacks on our energy facilities began, when the lights went off all over the country, I decided to monitor the consumption of electricity and this is what I got in 30 days:

electricity usage schedule for the month

A little analysis of the schedule and my observations:

  1. Every day I use an average of 1.84 kW, which is 77 watts per hour.
  2. When I am not at home from morning to evening (working out of home), the consumption is 0.8 kW per day.
  3. When I was washing (and this is 2-3 hours of washing machine operation), the consumption reached 3 kW per day, as you can see on the graph, this happened twice in the last month.
  4. In a month, I used 58.7 kW. I will pay UAH 84.5 for them. (~$2).

Those who monitor their energy consumption will understand how little this is, because even I (as I consider myself a frugal consumer) use 150-200 kW per month as usual.

Economy in Ukrainian

Or it would be more correct to say in Zagnybida’s style. Because I know that for many, all these restrictions and guidelines on reducing consumption come to one place. People see no reason to change anything, although there are already too many irritants and reasons.

I am doing everything possible for my country to win as soon as possible.

I kill the muscovite in me every day.

I write as much as possible every day. About Ukraine. About myself. About the fact that the truth will win, no matter what.

My economy is a drop in the sea, but the ocean is made of such drops.

I am this ocean.

And this ocean is me.

I am Ukraine.