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Originally Posted by Exfso
In todays Adelaide Advertiser, we are being told that the cost of Electricity is rising in Adelaide on average $360 next year, that is bloody outrageous. We are the highest taxed state in Australia. Where will it end. People are defaulting on their power bills now, this should send a lot over the edge I reckon. It is all greed on the part of both retailers and governments alike in my opinion. Marc, sorry I am slightly off track here, but it makes my blood boil....  |
Hey Peter, I was on the phone with Origin yesterday and had a chat with a very helpful lady who worked previously for Integral Energy, Energy Australia and a few others. She told me that the rates should be fixed by the governement and not vary from one supplier to the other but when I checked on iselect or switchwise I saw some big differences.
I'm in the process of going through every appliances in the house. I got a power meter from Jaycar and measured a few thing in the house and did a bit of reading online as well.
So far I figured that the ducted aircon although off still drew 200W. Apparently there's a built-in heater that kicks in now and then to keep the compressor warm in case of restart. So switched that off at the box. They say to put the power back on at least 12h before starting the unit to avoid cold start damages. Will do that next summer.
Going around inside the house I have also figured out that a lot of my daily consumption was chewed up by devices on standby, especially TVs, bluray, DVD players etc... I estimated approx. 2.61kW per day out on the whole lot.
Freezer and Fridge are the biggest culprit also as they run 24/7 and are both 15yrs old so I might save in buying new ones if they're more energy efficient. My fridge is averaging 250W and Freezer 138W. That's instantaneous reading. I'll need to get more points over the week-end to have an accurate kWh figure.
I haven't got around the lights yet and I'm still monitoring so I'll have a clearer pictures in a week or two. But the lights are not on all the time.
Gas heaters chew bugger all. 23W running and 3.6W on stand by. We're really lucky to have gas, especially for hot water but I reckon eventually gas rates will rise up to electricity. It's like that overseas.