basically... get the amount of kilo-watt-hours (kwh) your home uses in one year, and divide it by 8760.
this gives the yearly average amount of electricity your home uses at any one time.
how much electricity does your home use?
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No idea. And I'd be too depressed to work it out too! Electricity is 17 cents per KW/h, and 9 cents off-peak: 9pm to 7am.
Thankfully, we have gas hot water (califont), gas cooking, and gas fire to heat with - so our power bill only goes up by 10% or so in winter. PHEW.
I despise electricity supply companies.
Recently, the Consumer's Institute released a report saying that the elctricity supply companies are the very worst companies to deal with: rude, unhelpful, never answer their phones, disconnect people whenever they feel like it, fail to transfer power to other providers correctly, never bill on time, bill incorrect amounts and basically ★■◆● over people the best they can.
Thankfully, we have gas hot water (califont), gas cooking, and gas fire to heat with - so our power bill only goes up by 10% or so in winter. PHEW.
I despise electricity supply companies.
Recently, the Consumer's Institute released a report saying that the elctricity supply companies are the very worst companies to deal with: rude, unhelpful, never answer their phones, disconnect people whenever they feel like it, fail to transfer power to other providers correctly, never bill on time, bill incorrect amounts and basically ★■◆● over people the best they can.
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Interesting question, one I was about to ask as well.
We're flying out to Colorado really soon to take a look at some property in the mountains. The land has power to the edge and it's going to cost us about 10k to run the power to the center of the 160 acre property. We're considering going with a full solar-system instead of grid power. We're aware that we'd have to be careful not to waste, but wasn't sure how many KW/H we need to cover for.
We're flying out to Colorado really soon to take a look at some property in the mountains. The land has power to the edge and it's going to cost us about 10k to run the power to the center of the 160 acre property. We're considering going with a full solar-system instead of grid power. We're aware that we'd have to be careful not to waste, but wasn't sure how many KW/H we need to cover for.
