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It's about 27kWh/day, and according to the stats in the link fv6 provided elsewhere in this threadset, that's average for a northeast US house. Houses in the so
by wcarss 6y ago
It's about 27kWh/day, and according to the stats in the link fv6 provided elsewhere in this threadset, that's average for a northeast US house. Houses in the south tend to use more like 15-16k kWh/year, due to air conditioning mostly, leaving the 2015ish national average for single detached homes closer to 13k kWh.
This post has been an interesting eye-opener for me. Somehow I've never really thought about the numbers deeply, but, having a 100-watt lightbulb on for 8 hours is almost 1kWh. My and my partners' computers + home server, at a mix of wattages and uses but mostly left on a lot, are probably using 15-20kWh daily. That's... a lot of power.
- ghaff 6y agoMost computing devices are more efficient that they used to be, although there are more of them. I'm reminded of this because I keep my house pretty cool in the winter and used to be my office was relatively cozy even so because of all the heat being thrown off by big CRTs and tower systems under the desk. It's much less so today.