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Calculate your Home’s Electricity Usage

1. Collect your electricity bills for the past year so you can calculate your average monthly electricity usage. Calculating an average is essential because electricity use peaks in the hottest months due to the high air conditioning demand.

2. Add up the kWhs for all 12 months and divide that number by 12 to determine your average monthly energy consumption.

3. Divide the monthly figure by 30 to determine your daily kWh usage.

OPTIONAL:
To more accurately assess your home’s electricity needs, make a list of all your appliances, listing the power consumption for each in wattage and whether it is AC or DC power. Track how many hours you use each of those appliances per week, then for each appliance, multiply the watts by the hours/week to determine the number of watt-hours per week you use each appliance. Alternatively, you can figure out the energy usage for particular appliances by installing an electricity usage monitor between the appliance and outlet. Leaving the monitor in place for a week will give you the appliance’s watt-hours per week. Enter the data you have collected into a load sizing worksheet (see Resources). Work through the worksheet’s remaining calculations to determine the total number of Amp hours per day that your appliances use.

Kaushal Mishra (Pratha solutions)
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