How much electricity do you use a day, on average?

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SKORPI0

Lifer
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Loads.

We got lumps of it round the back.

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DrPizza

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No, I meant watts are a measurement for energy. Ex: watts of light, watts of heat and so on. So if electricity is not energy, but some kind of unicorn magic, why is it measurable in watts?

When a motor is being powered by electricity it is creating mechanical motion energy, but if electricity is not energy, then are we actually breaking newton's laws and creating energy using something that's not energy?

It just has me baffled. It's the first time I hear people say electricity is not a form of energy. It goes against everything I learned in school and on my own. Now if you really wanted to get technical there's only potential and kinetic energy and electricity would be kinetic because the electrons are moving but never heard of someone actually referring to it this way.
So, you're saying that electricity is energy, and then you say electricity is electrons moving. Electrons moving might be referred to as current. So, now you're saying that current is energy?! However, in the case of alternating current, the electrons just wiggle back and forth a little bit. They don't really go anywhere. So now what???

And again, watts are a unit of power. Power is not the same thing as energy. A 40 watt light bulb uses converts electrical energy into heat and visible light at a rate of 40 joules per second, provided that 40 watt light bulb is connected to the potential difference it was designed for. If you connect it to a higher or lower voltage, it will no longer be a 40 watt light bulb, though that's still what will be stamped on the glass. So now, how much energy does a 40 watt light bulb use? Or is that not enough information?
 

Chaotic42

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My maximum usage is about 1500KWh/month (50KWh/day) in August.
My minimum usage is about 700KWh/month (25KWh/day) in February.

I have to run the air conditioner most days of the year, so what I pay in cooling costs is made up for my lack of a heating bill.
 

Dr. Zaus

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Turns out, turns out...

Smurf's don't go as fast to the smurf berries when gargamel is in the way.

Just sayn'
 
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Dr. Zaus

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When you add heating oil or whatever you use, how does it average out?

Right. I'm in a place where I use a few cords of wood to heat; but that's about it.

In exchange there are only a few months a year when some sort of air-conditioning doesn't need to run.
 

Scouzer

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When you add heating oil or whatever you use, how does it average out?

Natural gas... but I don't really know how to compare that in a meaningful way. It's still a lot less in terms of dollars than many people in this thread. Gas costs me about $30/mo in the summer and $75/mo in the winter.
 

Chaotic42

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Natural gas... but I don't really know how to compare that in a meaningful way. It's still a lot less in terms of dollars than many people in this thread. Gas costs me about $30/mo in the summer and $75/mo in the winter.

I'd say cubic feet to KWh of energy.
 

Red Squirrel

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Natural gas... but I don't really know how to compare that in a meaningful way. It's still a lot less in terms of dollars than many people in this thread. Gas costs me about $30/mo in the summer and $75/mo in the winter.

You could look at the amount of cubic feet, convert that to therms, than to kw/h.

So for example:

100 cubic feet = 1 therm of energy = 30kw/h

1 therm is also 100,000BTU, so if your furnace is rated at 100,000 BTU and you run it for an hour, that would be equivalent to running a 30kw furnace for one hour.

Those numbers are probably wrong, it's just an example.
 

grohl

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Here in Texas, about 2000 kw/month in winter and 5000 kw/month in summer. And I am pretty cheap on the thermostat too.

FYI just signed contract for 8.4 cents kw/hr for two years. We buy "electricity" on an open market.
 

waggy

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I average about 960 kwh a month. most i have had was last july 1559 kwh. least was October of last year at 588
 

Scouzer

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Here in Texas, about 2000 kw/month in winter and 5000 kw/month in summer. And I am pretty cheap on the thermostat too.

FYI just signed contract for 8.4 cents kw/hr for two years. We buy "electricity" on an open market.

JESUS!!! What do you do, cool an 250' by 250' aircraft hangar?
 

Dr. Zaus

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Here in Texas, about 2000 kw/month in winter and 5000 kw/month in summer. And I am pretty cheap on the thermostat too.

FYI just signed contract for 8.4 cents kw/hr for two years. We buy "electricity" on an open market.

I miss that.

Big house in Houston/Sananton ?
 

DrPizza

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One of these days, I'm going to go into the admin panel here and set the censor to replace text. "sent from my <whatever> using <tapatalk, board express, etc.>" shall be replaced with something amusing to all and ridiculing to the poster.
 

Rubycon

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~310 MWhr alongside.
At FSA ~1250 MWhr is possible.

My actual use, dunno probably not much.
 

jupiter57

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According to my Electric bills, it seems I must be using a couple of Jigawatts a day!
LOL!
Darned bills are high, though, my lowest bill in the past year was >$240.00, during the winter, between heating the house and barn, lights, etc., it got over $500.00 a couple of times.
 

Sluggo

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For the year to date. Ever since we got the smart meters installed, our electric company will supplies you all kinds of data on their website. I can even break it down hour by hour, with all the tabs shown

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Bignate603

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You don't use electricity, you use energy. So, how much electricity do I use? None.

In fact, I teach physics, and don't really know what "electricity" is. Define it.

You may want to look up the definition of the word "pedantic".

We use around 27 kWh a day during the summer.
 

Red Squirrel

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Interesting, I was looking at Hydro's site and never realized they had "per hour" usage history. This is kinda neat.



The 3 peaks in the graph are when my furnace blower is scheduled to go on to circulate the air.

As for per day usage, this is the graph:




The 50+ kwh days are probably the days I'm home and have the air conditioner on. Takes up 15 amps on it's own, but it's worth it.