I live alone in a small apartment. My electric bill is usually a lot $20/month. After I got AC installed it doubled and even tripled in some summer months. I’m trying to preserve it by turning it off when I’m not home.
Why is a small window unit so big on energy use?
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Air conditioning, in general, is very expensive. They’re inefficient due to thermodynamics and there’s no way around it. The best you can do is seal up your apartment tight to minimize air loss, and block out sources of heat from getting in.
Turn off your AC when you’re going to be out of the house and open your windows instead of running the AC at night if it’s cool outside. Running it all day while you’re gone is never the right choice. The other people in this thread are wrong. Even if you want to try and turn it to an efficiency argument, the AC unit will run better when it doesn’t start/stop every 15 minutes.
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