Energy consumption of small household appliances can not be ignored: power consumption is no less than large appliances

With the advancement of home appliance energy-saving policies, many consumers will pay attention to their energy consumption levels and purchase more energy-efficient home appliances when purchasing large appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, and washing machines. However, when purchasing small home appliances, consumers are more concerned about functions and prices and are less concerned about power saving. In fact, the consumption of small household appliances is no less than large appliances. If you compare the power consumption per unit of time, many small household appliances consume even more power than home appliances.

Small appliances are "electric tigers"

Ms. Chen must turn off the power and save power when she finishes watching TV. However, she has some carelessness about the power consumption of small household appliances. “So what's the energy consumption of small-sized products?”

How large is the power consumption of small home appliances? In refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, and color TVs, these large-sized home appliances are powered by refrigerators, and a 200-liter, two-door refrigerator that consumes only one level of energy. It consumes half a full day. According to the instructions for use of household appliances, an air-conditioner can only use 1 hour of electricity for an hour. Ordinary households do not use air-conditioning for more than 6 hours per day.

Since there are many types of small household appliances, we use common categories to see how much they consume.

Suning Appliance introduced a home appliance expert, rice cookers generally have a few hundred watts of power, and induction cookers, electric kettles can reach one or two kilowatts, or even higher. A rice cooker with a power of 2000 watts takes one hour to make a meal, and one day it takes 6 kWh. Eating a hot pot on an induction cooker can make an ordinary refrigerator work for more than four days.

“Induction cookers must increase temperature in a very short period of time. The power is definitely greater than that of the refrigerator. The refrigerator starts all day and it is just doing insulation.” explained the person in charge of a small home appliance manufacturing company.

“The average daily power consumption of a water dispenser with heating and cooling functions exceeds 1 degree, while the average daily power consumption of a energy-efficient refrigerator marked as an energy efficiency class is only 0.4 degrees. The power consumption of home appliances is indeed amazing. It can be seen that small home appliances are home electric tigers, said the experts.

Only a few small appliances have energy efficiency labels

Although the energy consumption of small household appliances is large, the national energy efficiency index for this category is not supported. According to Wang Ruohong, director of the Institute of Resources and Environmental Standards of the National Standards Institute, there are many types of small household appliances, but there are no more than 10 types of small home appliances with energy efficiency indicators. There are no specific energy efficiency labeling provisions for other household appliances including drinking fountains, water heaters, electric heaters, soya-bean milk makers, and electric kettles.

Wang Ruohong said, “There are too many kinds of small household appliances, and it is impossible to cover all categories. At present, we are mainly setting standards for household essential basic appliances. For example, the energy efficiency rating of fans and rice cookers is divided into 3 and 5 levels. It means that those who are below this threshold will be eliminated."

"Small household appliances energy efficiency standards based on the same as large appliances, the goal is to eliminate 15% of high energy-consuming products, ensure that 20% of the products are energy-saving products." Wang Ruohong said that the core of small household appliances is not the current environmental protection and energy conservation, or price As the main body.