Home energy efficiency audit
Most energy-saving advice is a list of twenty things of wildly different value, presented as though they were equivalent. This asks twelve questions and returns only what applies to your house, ordered by units saved — so the geyser switch appears above the phone chargers, which is where the arithmetic actually puts it. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is submitted or stored.
Twelve questions about your house
Nothing is sent anywhere — this runs entirely in your browser. Answer what you know and skip what you do not; the result is ordered by what each change is actually worth.
What to do, in order of value
Answer a few questions above and the priority list appears here.
Ordered by value, not by ease
Each finding carries an estimated monthly unit saving drawn from the appliance data elsewhere on this site. A geyser left switched on is worth roughly 400 units a month in winter; unplugging idle phone chargers is worth under one unit a year.
Presenting both as 'energy saving tips' is how households end up doing the second and not the first. This list refuses to do that.
Two questions that are diagnostics rather than habits
Whether your meter stops when every circuit is switched off is not a habit question. If it does not stop, you are paying for current flowing somewhere you do not control — earth leakage through damp wiring, a circuit connected upstream of your distribution board, or somebody else's connection.
Whether you read your own meter is the other. It is not itself a saving, but it is what makes every other measure targetable, because it tells you which week of the cycle to act in.
Why savings are worth more than the unit count suggests
Slab pricing is progressive, so the units you remove come off the top of your consumption at the highest rate you reached. A hundred units cut from a 600-unit month is worth substantially more than a hundred units cut from a 200-unit one.
And for a household near the 200-unit line, a reduction that keeps the account inside protected status changes the rate applied to every unit for the following six months — a consequence far larger than the immediate saving.
The seasonal caveat, stated plainly
The geyser and room heater figures apply in winter; the air conditioning ones apply in summer. They do not stack in the same month, which is why the headline total is an upper bound across the year rather than a figure to expect every cycle.
Refrigeration, lighting, pumping and standing leakage do apply in every month, and they are the ones worth fixing permanently rather than seasonally.
Frequently asked questions
What is the single biggest saving available in a Pakistani home?
In winter, switching off an electric geyser rather than leaving it on — the difference between roughly 120 units a month and 540. In summer, raising the air conditioner thermostat to 26 °C and running a ceiling fan alongside it. No other single change comes close to either.
Is my data sent anywhere?
No. The audit runs entirely in your browser, nothing is transmitted, and nothing is stored. Closing the page discards the answers.
How accurate are the saving estimates?
They are indicative figures for a typical household, calculated from the wattages and duty cycles on this site's appliance pages. Your own saving depends on your equipment, your hours and your house. Use them to rank the actions, not to predict a bill.
My meter keeps running with everything switched off. What now?
That is the most important finding the audit can produce. Reconnect circuits one at a time to isolate which one causes it — a failing water heater element and damp bathroom wiring are the two most common culprits in Pakistani homes. Both are billed to you until they are fixed.
Related
Indicative figures for a typical household. Savings depend on your equipment, your usage and your building, and several are seasonal rather than year-round. Nothing here replaces a professional survey for structural measures, or an electrician for anything the meter test uncovers. For the amount you actually owe, use your official duplicate bill.