Re: Alternate power roundup

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alex Harford <harford@...> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Jake Anderson <jake@...> wrote:
>> 70kwh/day holy carp.
>
> I believe this is due to a significant percentage of population here
> using electricity for all of their power requirements, ie including
> heating.  We don't have any natural gas hookup in our townhouse, and
> many other people don't either.  I know that our power requirements
> went up significantly after our baby arrived, wow, those things
> generate a lot of laundry!  Our average now is 43kWh.

Is this per household? 70kWh/Day is still quite significant for a
3-personal or even 4-person household.

I've my utility bill in front of me and it says that National monthly average
in Singapore is 370kWh of electricity and 90kWh of gas So that is about
12.3 kWh of electricity and 3kWh of nature gas. I think in Singapore,
average household will have about 4 person.

This is a tropical country and a lot of us use air conditioner almost
every day. We have 3 person in the house and we are always below
national average. When my parents-in-law were here, we would be
above national average.

But I think the major difference is that here people live in flats in
high rise building whereas in US most family would own a house.
Heating in US (in the Winter) can increase the electricity bill
significantly. It is very very cold in part of US in the Winter...

Xiaofan
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