How Can My Electric Bill Be so High

How Can My Electric Bill Be so High

You will receive an electricity bill every month. You are surprised why so much electricity is used up this month. There are several reasons for this. One is that the electricity bill you pay is when you use floating price billing, and the price just increased this month. Another reason is the number of household appliances you use and the power of the appliances. Even in the case of a drop in electricity prices, if you turn on all the household appliances in your home for a long period of time within a month, you will have to pay more.

Your bill will constantly change based on your electricity usage and frequency of use. Kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a common unit used by power grid companies to charge electricity to each household, and power grids usually charge customers at a price per kilowatt hour/cent.

In order to know how much electricity you need to spend, you need to know how much electricity your home appliances consume. Here is a group of ordinary household appliances and their electricity consumption per hour:

Home Appliance	Electricity Consumption Per Hour (Watts)	Cost / H
LED Bulb light	9	0.1 cents
Fluorescent bulb light	60	0.6 cents
Desktop computer	400	4 cents
Refrigerator	1000	10 cents
Range burner	1000	10 cents
Hair dryer	1200	12 cents
Space heater	1500	15 cents
Water pump	3000	30 cents
Clothes dryer	4000	40 cents
Central air conditioner	15000	1.50 dollars

Central air conditioning refrigeration and heating

If your house is heated or cooled by central air-conditioning, your electricity bills will rise sharply in winter (November to April) and summer (June to August), because you will use a lot during these two time periods. Electrical energy. For families with heat pumps, and often use. If it runs for 8 to 12 hours a day, and the hourly electricity bill is 10 cents, it may cost 16 to 23 dollars a day on average.

In order to save electricity bills, we recommend using an automatic control thermostat to set its temperature at 22°C and work for eight hours a day. During these eight hours, if the temperature in the room drops, the constant interrogator will automatically start to work. The temperature inside rose. If the ambient temperature in the room is too high, the thermostat will automatically cool down. Doing so can save you 25% of your electricity bills every year.

Hot shower

You will take a hot shower every day when you get home from get off work. After that, you have to wash and dry your clothes. The cost of heating water each time is actually very high. Especially for high-power electric water heaters, heating the water in the water tank needs to run for at least one hour, and the electricity bill generated is $1. Moreover, the cost of washing and drying your clothes is between $2 and $3 each time.

In order to reduce electricity consumption, shortening the shower time and washing clothes with cold water will be a good choice. Another way is to set the temperature of the water heater to a maximum of 40°C, because from a scientific point of view, this temperature is the most suitable. Too high temperature is bad for human health. In addition, this measure will greatly reduce power consumption and save you money.

refrigerator

Refrigerators work almost 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so the electrical energy consumed is quite objective. The electricity bill generated every day is about US$2, so that the electricity bill consumed by a refrigerator in a year is more than US$700.

Therefore, for the refrigerator, the best measure is to set the temperature of the refrigerator compartment to 4°C, which is the best preservation temperature. Set the temperature of the freezer to 0°C, because most bacteria in general household food can no longer survive at this temperature. More importantly, at this temperature setting, the refrigerator’s compressor does not need to work at full capacity, thereby reducing energy consumption.

Lights

Generally speaking, there will not be many lamps in a family, and the power of a single bulb will not be too large. But in the long run, if you take a total of 10 lights and each light works for 8 hours a day, then the electricity bill for a day is about 50 cents, the monthly electricity bill is $15, and the electricity bill for a year reaches 180. US dollars. This may not sound like too much, but if we switch to more energy-efficient LED lights, we can save about 80% of electricity bills in one year. Why not?

Grid companies have full control over electricity prices, and we cannot change this. But what we can be sure of is that we choose to reduce electricity consumption, thereby reducing electricity costs.

How to Cut Down My Electricity Bill

Unplug electrical appliances

Some electrical appliances commonly used in the home, such as hair dryers, computers, washing machines, dishwashers, and water heaters, will continue to consume electricity even if you do not use them. Therefore, when you are done using the blender, toaster, food processor or even the TV, please unplug it. Of course, some special equipment-such as security surveillance cameras that need to operate 24 hours a day-are exceptions.

 

Turn off the computer or TV

Computers and televisions are the most commonly used electronic products at home, which consume a lot of power and are used frequently. So one of the easiest ways to save electricity is to turn off your computer or TV when you are not using it. In order to simplify the operation, please use the integrated control power board, which will turn off the power of the device according to the usage of the device. When you turn off the computer, the power strip will also automatically cut off the power to the scanner, printer and monitor.

Isolated socket

Some hot air (or cold air) will be lost through the power socket. We put some fireproof foam insulation material under the switchboard and socket cover, which can save a few dollars in water and electricity bills every month.

House insulation treatment

If the house’s insulation measures are not well done, the cold air in the house will leak out in summer, and the cold outdoor air will infiltrate in winter, and this will cause the air conditioner in the home to be overloaded. Intangible increase in electricity consumption.

Therefore, a good method is to lay a high-quality insulation layer on the inner walls of the house, and the gaps between the windows and the walls are also filled with insulation materials. These measures will greatly improve the thermal insulation effect of the entire house, thereby reducing electricity consumption and helping you save electricity bills.