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Abstract ENERGY
This paper describes and analyzes the behavior of the households in Albay Province, Philippines
on the energy use, practices and their contexts, and the appropriate efficiency use strategies. The
study employed secondary analysis of data from 616 participants. It employed both qualitative
and quantitative techniques in analyzing the data, namely insight, intuition, reasoning,
imagination and discernment and comparisons with discourses of experts, peer-accepted
references, data from related literature and centrality measures, gauges of dispersion and other
related quantitative tools and standardized regression modeling.
The research findings showed that the households in the province already observed electrical
energy conservation measures primarily to lessen electrical bill/cut down on expenses. There are,
however, considerable potentials for more efficient electrical energy utilization practices among
such households based on the proportion of the households which do not yet practice
conservation measures, namely scheduling of appliance use (100%), not overheating/overcooling
rooms (84.9%), scheduling home energy audit (84.7%), selecting energy efficient appliances
(84.4%), scheduling computer games only on weekends (76.9%), air dying of clothes instead of
electrical drying (66.2%), using electric fans only when people are around (63.8%) and using
fluorescent lamps instead of incandescent lamps (55.8%).
It was further found out that the electricity utilization-conserving practices in the households
behaved or manifested a distinguishable trend with respect to family energy consumption,
educational qualification of the household heads, and number of children.
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Future efficient electric energy utilization strategies comprise the continued observance of the
now existing measures but to include the proportion of households that does not practice them
yet by addressing the detected quantitative behavior between conservation practices and
household contexts, and some creative behavioral (human) and technological approaches.
The researchers recommend the training of and dissemination of information to the households
regarding the findings of this study on electrical energy conservation measures.
Introduction
Energy, the capacity to do work, comes in different forms- chemical, mechanical,
thermal, solar and electrical. Its sources include wind, water, the sun, fossil fuels, and
thermal gradients. This technical term is interesting even to the layman because it
provides lighting and runs most of the appliances inside the households. The increased
flow of material goods to the households such as electric washing machines and dryers,
computers, digital video disk players, and television sets, has shifted household
maintenance and recreation from human energy to electric energy. Electricity, according
to Buesing (1980, p.194) will go on to be the dominant energy source among
households for three reasons- it is the highest grade and most versatile energy source
available, it is the most universally available energy source already in the homes, and it
can be generated from any number of future energy sources.
OECD/IEA (1994) reported that with increasing disposable income and changes in
lifestyles, households tend to move from the cheapest and least convenient fuels
(biomass) to more convenient and normally more expensive ones (charcoal, kerosene)
and eventually to the most convenient and usually most expensive types of energy
(LPG, natural gas, electricity). Furthermore, the report highlighted that there is a
correlation between choice of cooking fuels and the value of womens time. Women
who enter the formal workforce demand more convenience in their use of household
fuels.
Among the different forms of energy, the alternating-current kind of electricity,
supplied by power distributors from the generating stations through the transmission
lines up to the service drop wires leading to household circuits, has become the most
prevalent because it is the most convenient and the designed driver of many work,
convenience and leisure machines and devices in the homes. It has the best prospects to
increase energy utilization efficiency through the development of appliances and
systems that optimize usage. It also delivers excellent environmental performance, as it
emits little CO2, SOx and NOx, and brings safety and comfort to our lives, among other
diverse benefits. (Raivanshi, 2003). The facets of alternating current electricity-
prevalence among households and best potentials for efficient usage and therefore
contributing less to global warming and climate change- are the main reasons why it is
the subject of this study, and it was the object of many previous investigations
especially conducted during periods of energy crises. As Purchase (1980) has suggested,
many reasons are apparent for wanting to reduce the amount of energy used and the
money spent for energy. These include the desire to conserve natural resources, the wish
to be independent of foreign suppliers, and the need to save money.
Eddie Seva See, Liwayway R. Ables, Melinda D. De Guzman, Joseph L. Bartolata and Mary
Ann M. See
September 2010
Academic paper: Electric Energy Utilization in the Households of Albay Province, Philippines:
Contexts, Conservation Practices, and Future Efficiency Strategies. Available from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259219501_Electric_Energy_Utilization_in_the_Hous
eholds_of_Albay_Province_Philippines_Contexts_Conservation_Practices_and_Future_Efficien
cy_Strategies [accessed Apr 18, 2017].