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Both should be statistical means, right? I'm not sure how they arrived at 200 kWh/month instead of 305. Maybe they used numbers from ~a decade ago? Mistakenly

• silisili 4y ago
  I assumed from the few articles that I read, maybe incorrectly, that per capita was taking entire country energy usage and dividing. Which would count stuff like the giant air conditioned shopping malls all over that people hang out in to cool off. The Metrobank article was from 2022, and I feel they are using average household bill. But even that kind of mean is misleading. A single household with central AC would exceed typical US usage, meaning it's negating like what 8 houses? My wife's family lives in the Visayas and pays like 8 to 12 USD a month in electricity. That's a house averaging 5 or 6 people. Even still, they are used to dealing with load shedding and blackouts. And they are one of the few families with a small TV, even. In bigger cities like Manila and Cebu, usage is probably a ton more.
  • schiffern 4y ago
    Ahh, I see what you mean now. Per-household residential electricity consumption, vs per-household total electricity consumption. Correct, I've been using the latter. I can see arguments for both numbers, depending on your goal. Total electricity gives you a "household size slice" of the total economy, which may be more relevant. On the other hand, conceptually the residential number gives you the actual consumption of an actual average single-family house (with the hitch that they're mixed in with 'units' in multi-unit dwellings).
  • lawgimenez 4y ago
    I'm from Cebu and our monthly electric bill is in the average of 160-200 USD. Are you living in the province?
    • silisili 4y ago
      Yep, Antique.