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by Richard Prosser
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I've just checked my power bill that came in last week. 2650units for
the month or 88units (kWhr) per day.
We are now heading into winter, have had a few cold days and have the
heat pump heating most nights. Not much in the way of solar input and
cool (~8C ?) input water temperature.
>From what I've been able to gather, this is a bit higher usage than
most of the guys I work with and higher than average for NZ, but not
significantly so.
RP
2008/5/10 Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@...>:
> 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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the month or 88units (kWhr) per day.
We are now heading into winter, have had a few cold days and have the
heat pump heating most nights. Not much in the way of solar input and
cool (~8C ?) input water temperature.
>From what I've been able to gather, this is a bit higher usage than
most of the guys I work with and higher than average for NZ, but not
significantly so.
RP
2008/5/10 Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@...>:
> 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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