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Friendly Economic Reporter Kwon Ae-ri is out. Kwon, the weather has gotten very hot now (16th), but there are air conditioners and other appliances. Yesterday, I told my viewers how to save electricity, how to save money, and I came prepared right away.

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I told you that I would tell you soon, and you said a lot of things like when you are going to do it soon, you have to do it right away, so I prepared it right away.

Which of the cookers, refrigerators, dishwashers, and air conditioners you see here is actually going to consume the most power in your home?

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of course isn't it air conditioning?

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If you say you use air conditioning all year round, you probably do. But it doesn't work that way.

In fact, the product that consumes the most power in your home all year round is the smallest cooker here.

The refrigerator also consumes only about half the power of a rice cooker.

When we examined the actual power consumption and the appliances that people in Korea actually have in their homes, we found that the rice cooker consumes about 791 kWh of electricity per year, using about 9 hours a day on average.

You usually keep the cooker warm.

Including all of those hours, this amount of power is more than twice as much power as a refrigerator that runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Air conditioners use a lot of instantaneous power, but they use about 8,500 minutes a year, and 141 or 142 hours a year.

When we did this, it was about 333 kWh per year. However, air conditioning is concentrated in the summer months for at least two to three months.

That's why it's scary to start charging three times the basic tariff that starts to be charged if you use more than 450kWh of electricity for a month in the summer, which is to concentrate on 100~150kWh per month, and then you start to be charged a progressive electricity tariff.

I will tell you again how to use the air conditioner thriftily and coolly when the summer arrives in earnest.

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Now that the cost of electricity has gone up, let's start with some easy savings tips that you can apply in real life.

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I'm going to start by talking about the appliances that I still use, but first of all, it's good to remember this one.

No matter what kind of home appliances they are, you can see that heating appliances and heat-generating appliances consume the most electricity.

That's why a rice cooker is such a typical appliance.

It's hard to worry all day about saving money on electricity, and it should be easy to save.

In fact, there are quite a few people who use this method not only because of the cost of electricity, but also because of the taste of rice, especially among households of 1~2 people.

What's more, as soon as you cook the rice, you freeze it in portions, and you don't use the cooker warming function.

When you wake up in the morning, you can take it out beforehand, let it thaw, and then microwave it briefly to taste, and it may be different according to your personal preference, but in fact, the rice tastes better.

This is the principle of ready-to-eat rice. As soon as you cook it, freeze it.

If we run the cooker for an average of 9 hours a day, and we spend 1 hour cooking, and we don't use 8 hours of heat keeping, we save about 1 kWh per day. That's 30 kWh in a month.

The government estimates that a family of four consumes about 332 kWh per month as of this year, based on the average monthly electricity consumption of a four-person household, which is the average of the months that use more and less electricity per year.

So 30 kWh a month is about one-eleventh less.

It's never a small wattage.

In the summer, it may be the difference between avoiding the progressive top-tier rates or not.

The second thing is that you don't care about the appliances that you can reduce the power consumption, there are a lot of homes that use this these days, bidets.

It seems that the bidet consumes less power, but it includes a lot of functions to heat water, so if you don't press the power saving function once, the electricity bill will be leaked here.

At home, you can turn off the heating sheet function and lower the water temperature once, and it won't be too inconvenient. You can use it without using much power.

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Reporter Kwon, many people are wondering about the system of getting cash back if you save the electricity that we introduced yesterday. They also tell you how to apply.

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You have to apply for this to get your cash back, but only about 50,000 households have applied for it right now.

If you type 'KEPCO Energy Marketplace' or 'Agar Energy Cashback' in the search bar, the related homepage will appear. We are not accepting additional applications at this time.

With the increase in electricity prices yesterday, interest in this has grown, and KEPCO is preparing to accept additional applications from mid-June.

I'm applying for this after June. If you use electricity sparingly than you did in the past or your family in the past, you can get up to 100 won per kWh back in cash by the end of this year.

We'll talk more about this in more detail once the additional application date is confirmed.