How Much Electricity Per Month Does Your Household Consume?

[davidI]

Now that I'm living in an apartment / paying bills again, I'm doing my best to conserve and monitor my energy consumption.

How much electricity does your household consume each month? What factors contribute to that quantity (# of people, age of appliances, work from home, etc.) and do you think you could do better?

[speedog]

Number of people makes a difference, converting to LED lighting probably was the largest difference maker.

[davidI]

Mods - can you delete this thread so I can re-post?

I screwed up the poll options as I based it on average person's consumption rather than household.

Thanks!

[ExtraSlow]

House of four people, and we are between 750 and 1200 kWh. 1000 is a good average, so 250 I guess. I've been told that's high, but I haven't put a lot of effort into reducing it. Electricity is so cheap, why conserve?

[killramos]

It costs me way more to connect to the grid than I ever use in wattage.

Looks like around 875. Poll options are wack.

[Tik-Tok]

Typically around 1300kwh. As high as 1800 in the dead of winter because of the hottub and garage furnace.

[Buster]

I have no idea

[bjstare]

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I have no idea

[davidI]

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It costs me way more to connect to the grid than I ever use in wattage.

Looks like around 875. Poll options are wack.

I realized that after I posted. I saw Alberta averages 200 kWh but it's per person rather than per household.

Here in Spain we only use 125 kWh / month in our household, and it's winter, and I work from home, so I wasn't expecting consumption in Alberta to be THAT much higher.

I can't edit the poll options so I asked the mods to delete so I could re-post, if you read the thread.

[ExtraSlow]

Spain is a third world country. High energy use is directly correlated to awesomeness.

[Tik-Tok]

You could just use this thread for reference.

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/410...your-house-use

[J-D]

Was going to say that 281 is super low. Lol.

[killramos]

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I realized that after I posted. I saw Alberta averages 200 kWh but it's per person rather than per household.

Here in Spain we only use 125 kWh / month in our household, and it's winter, and I work from home, so I wasn't expecting consumption in Alberta to be THAT much higher.

I can't edit the poll options so I asked the mods to delete so I could re-post, if you read the thread.

But do you have a standing freezer big enough to fit a whole cow inside?

Didn’t think so.

Honestly I think most of my energy usage is my furnace fan, that and my washer dryer I suppose?

[KrisYYC]

Used 190 last bill. The majority of my bill is fees and not usage. I don't bother trying to manage my consumption too much. My last Enmax bill was about $54 and only $7 of that was actual usage charges.

[bjstare]

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Used 190 last bill. The majority of my bill is fees and not usage. I don't bother trying to manage my consumption too much. My last Enmax bill was about $54 and only $7 of that was actual usage charges.

Says that your ride is an econo box... do you live in a westfalia?

[killramos]

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Says that your ride is an econo box... do you live in a westfalia?

Would 190 even power a trickle charger. Hahah

[ExtraSlow]

280 watts for the month.

[KrisYYC]

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Says that your ride is an econo box... do you live in a westfalia?

Hahaha no. I live in a condo and slowly replaced incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs as they burnt out. I don't actively try to limit use. I have a desktop PC and a 52 inch LCD TV on most of time I'm home unless I'm sleeping. I cook a lot at home too. My usage almost doubles in the summer as I run an air conditioner in my bedroom.

I goofed on my usage charge in my previous post, it should be $13. I was only looking at the first two weeks of the billing cycle. From October 16 to November 17 I used 197 kWh.

[dirtsniffer]

Pretty consistently at 350 kwh every month. Interested to see how much the Christmas lights use

[sabad66]

800 in the winter, 1200 for the 4 months of summer because of the a/c and running both my furnace fans 24/7. Pretty consistent surprisingly.

Household of 2 adults, 2 kids (2 years + 2 months) and a dog. I don’t really think “per person” is a good indicator here but I guess that means 200-300 per person.

Curious how December will be with the Christmas lights too, but I doubt it will make a difference.

Not gonna lie, the 3 for all deal with atco really makes me not care about saving electricity. Still another 2 years to go of reckless electricity use