10 Ways to Save Money on Your Electric Bill
by With electricity bills going up, what are we to do?
Don’t Dry Clothes in the House
In the summer this is bad because it forces a lot of water into the air conditioning.
Get Rid of the Second Refrigerator
For a long time I said I couldn’t but I am seriously looking at how I can. This costs 4-6 dollars a month. I ask, do I really need it that much space?
Evaluate “Always On” items
TIVO is wonderful. But I have two of them. Do I really need the second one? I haven’t looked at the name plate but let’s say it burns about 120 watts. The name plate will give that number or it will tell the number of amps. If I take amps, let’s say, 1.0 and multiply it by 120 I get 120 watts. Amps times volts equals watts. Once I have watts I take that times the number of hours, The TIVO is always on, so let’s say thirty days times 24 hours a day is 720 hours. Multiply that by 120 – 86,400 – this is a unit called Watt Hours. To convert to Kilo Watt Hours (KWH) we divide by 1000 and get 86.4. The current cost of my electricity is about 10 cents a KWH so that means each TIVO costs me 86.4 times .10 or $8.64 a month or over $100 a year. The electricity is more than the TIVO service.
If you want to work out the cost of any appliance here is a cheat sheet to help you. Start by checking the amps, watts or KVA on the plate on the appliance. One of these will be present. I have put an example in parenthesis.
If you have amps multiply it by 120. (1.0 * 120 = 120)
If you have KVA multiply it by 1000 (.12 * 1000 = 120)
If you have watts use it as is. 120 (Use 120)
Using the number from above, multiply by the number of hours being used (2) , divide by 1000, multiply by the cost per KWH ($.10) – generally this is in the 9-13 cents range.
120 * 2 / 1000 * .1 = .024 or 2.4 cents. This is for a 120 watt item (a small TV, TIVO, Small computer – not including monitor), etc. used two hours.
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Post CommentGlynis
On June 28, 2008 at 8:26 am
Thanks I am just off to show my hubby this, he is wanting a bigger tv, I say it will use more electricity which is expensive in Cyprus. Interesting piece.
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On November 25, 2008 at 10:08 am
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