POWER SAVING
Sir, —If all refrigerators in private homes were cut off for the next few critical months, surely it would help considerably in relieving the shortage of electricity. There is no need for such things in the winter, except, perhaps, in institutions where a great quantity of food has to be kept. I should like to be informed if much electricity is used to keep all the hundreds of refrigerators going all day. Do they use more than electric lights?—Yours, etc., SUGGESTOR.
July 2, 1951. [“As all domestic consumers are required to reduce their consumption by 15 per cent, according to the quota given on their accounts, it is left to them to decide how they will do it.” said the acting engineer-manager of the Municipal Electricity Department (Mr G. H. Battersby), when this letter was referred to him. “A fair estimate for a domestic refrigerator during the present season of the year is half a unit a day.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26465, 5 July 1951, Page 5
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