Energy Efficiency Alberta

[benyl]

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Where do you guys reckon the majority of your usage comes from?

Homeserver on 24/7
Two furnace fans running 24/7
HRV running every 20 minutes
Water pumps to heat the bathroom floors and garage as well as DHW.
dehumifier running in the garage in the winter
oh, wife and kids at home! haha

[16hypen3sp]

I remember reading a post (maybe on Reddit) that said the provincial government would never put a rebate on EV's because all it would do was subsidize expensive vehicle purchases by wealthy people... and the provincial government hates wealthy people (except for all the juicy taxes they pay).

[Seth1968]

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You didn't pay.

Please explain who does than.

[gmc72]

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A rebate for sure. After all, it's the gubment that pays, not the people

EDIT. Rage kind of beat me to it.

What? You mean the government doesn't have their own money tree out back?? Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Gestalt]

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Please explain who does than.

Are you saying if Alberta had a rebate and you or he dieed tomorro, the rebate would suffer? Hubris? Is that the right word to people of large self importance. Any one of us is insignificat.

[Gestalt]

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What? You mean the government doesn't have their own money tree out back?? Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Obviously they do. Consumption taxes, investment returns, royalties, leases, tranfers from the federal government...

[rage2]

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Where do you guys reckon the majority of your usage comes from?

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Rage2 seems to have alot of tech goodies in his household so I'd imagine his electricity draw is coming from alot of gadgets and not from leaving lights on 24/7.

I have 7 large UPS's throughout the house. IIRC that really added a shit ton of usage even if the connected devices were all off drawing nothing. No clue why they're so inefficient.

My reductions from 10 yrs ago came from 2 changes, upgrading my A/C so it doesn't run 24/7, and adding blinds to my 24 windows in the living room. Where my house sits, the sun literally bakes the house from sunrise to sunset across 3 sides.

My average usage has also gone up by around 200kWh from running my furnace fan 12 hours a day to equalize temperatures through the house during the day. I figure that should be fixed when I upgrade to an ECM motor in the furnace.

On the other end of the spectrum, I also have an empty condo that's drawing 30kWh a month.

[dirtsniffer]

Just like any one rebate is insignificant. The individuals form a population and populations can affect the amount paid in subsidies and also the governments ability to spend money.

To be clear. People fund governments. The more you make the more you influence what our government can spend

[Gestalt]

Interesting the wide range. I am jealous if you 300kwh guys becasue I would be totally zero balance with my current solar system.

for every 300kwh monthly in calgary you would need x (solar panels)-
Jan 9.25 panels, south facing between vertical and latitude plus 15 degrees tilt
April 5.8 panels,south facing, latitude tilt
July 5.2 panels,south facing and flat
october 7.6 panels, south facing latitude plus 15 degrees.

In longer the summer you can imprive that by a lot with a simple 2 axis tracker.

as an averag 6 panels would be close. get 6 300 watt pannels, 3 double micro inverters and you are very clsoe to neutral. if you are lazy to change tilt on the panels aim for about latitude tilt.

[Seth1968]

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Are you saying if Alberta had a rebate and you or he dieed tomorro, the rebate would suffer?

I'm not sure in what orifice I should fuck you, as you present so many.

[rage2]

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Interesting the wide range. I am jealous if you 300kwh guys becasue I would be totally zero balance with my current solar system.

for every 300kwh monthly in calgary you would need x (solar panels)-
Jan 9.25 panels, south facing between vertical and latitude plus 15 degrees tilt
April 5.8 panels,south facing, latitude tilt
July 5.2 panels,south facing and flat
october 7.6 panels, south facing latitude plus 15 degrees.

In longer the summer you can imprive that by a lot with a simple 2 axis tracker.

as an averag 6 panels would be close. get 6 300 watt pannels, 3 double micro inverters and you are very clsoe to neutral. if you are lazy to change tilt on the panels aim for about latitude tilt.

Which is impossible in a condo. So basically, high density living is bad, we need more sprawl? haha

[Swank]

WTF happened last month?!?

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Aw I'm betting it's the baseboard heater, I guess it's a lot cheaper to heat the whole house with gas instead of one room with electricity.

[Gestalt]

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Which is impossible in a condo. So basically, high density living is bad, we need more sprawl? haha

theres roofs, yard, poles, balcony, balcony roof, walls, soon to be windows.

but frankly i am not yet a fan of shoebox living.
a thousand acres outside of calgary and do a solar farm that woudl be good too.

[J-hop]

Yea good luck getting everyone to buy in on that. Your utopia sounds great but has very little understanding of practical application

[Gestalt]

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Yea good luck getting everyone to buy in on that. Your utopia sounds great but has very little understanding of practical application

Our house doeant qualify as practical?

[J-hop]

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Our house doeant qualify as practical?

No I’m referring to you saying that as a condo unit owner that you can simply slap solar panels on “roofs, yard, poles, balcony, balcony roof, walls, soon to be windows” when in reality this isn’t a practical suggestion. Since you don’t own the structure you can’t go doing that unless you have the buy in from the rest of the residents. There are restrictive convenents that prevent modifications like this. No condo board is going to agree to that unless you have heavy buy in.

Then you say you think 1000 acres for you is preferable to shoebox living which is not at all practical and extremely damaging environmentally if everyone in Alberta or even just Calgary tried to do that.....

[BerserkerCatSplat]

We hover pretty tightly around the 600kWh mark.

[ExtraSlow]

[dirtsniffer]

stupid electric water heater.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

687 last month.
Probably my UPS, PC running 24/7, NAS running, garage barrel heater from when I was in there, and my wife's hair dryer/straightener in the morning. House is mostly LED at this point otherwise.