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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 a computer + monitor use during a day, and how much less does it use with the monitor off? I'm curious because sometimes I leave my PC on at night...

3852 kWh/y = .439

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.

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.

About 1.1 megawatts per month during summer with the ACs on some of the time and computers always on. Too lazy to do the math.

hardly anything for me. i live in a 1 bedroom apartment by myself and am rarely home other than to sleep.

I just have gerbils on a generator treadmill
When I give 'em speed, I can even sell some power back . .

Krom wrote:About 1.1 megawatts per month during summer with the ACs on some of the time and computers always on. Too lazy to do the math.

that's 1.51 kilowatts at any one time.

Cant really tell but all i do know is that we have 3 computers running 24/7 2 air conditioners and the lights stay on alot of the time