My house daily electricty is around 40KWH per day = $10 per day.
Is it possible that neighbour is stealing electricity?
Fyi.
- I turn on split system 12 hrs per day during winter.
- Family of 4.
High Electricty Usage. Is It Excessive?
hentabara on 29/07/2022 - 20:01
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Sounds like my kinda retirement!
Enjoy!
It's very high but about right. You can buy a power adapter that has reading of energy use.
Our house uses around 8kw per day on average during winter and in summer it goes down to around 2kw. We have 5kw solar panels. Family of 3 and 2 of them stay at home most of weekdays.
What temperature is your split system set to? Ours is set to 22c in winter and 24c in summer. We all have Oodies for winter to minimise the heating.
Use 8kwh per day or import 8kwh per day? I could guess that a 5kw system could make around 20kwh per day, combined that’s more normal household usage.
Around 25-30kwh in summer but in winter I'm lucky to get 10kwh
OP put on a jumper
Our power is 30 to 32 per day. Family of 4, gas hot water, heating and cooktop.
I am a single person, hardly use the heater or air con but my energy company tells me i am using the equivalent of 7 people, only thing i can think of is my computers and nas drives and AV devices.
Or your neighbours are stealing your electricity (way more likely than the op, unless you're crypto mining, computers/NAS/home theatre gear will not be consuming ~40+kWh/day)
I will check how much it is in kWh, but it really surprises me that they reckon i am the same as 7 people.
8-9kwh per day. Single, work from home, computer on all day, tv and gaming in the evening, electric heater under desk and gas blown air heating, lots of tech…nas, cameras, av etc, but that uses very little, 3 fridges!
Single with 3 fridges…..I'm afraid to ask….
😉
That's where he keeps all the body parts he harvestes
OP, if you live in Victoria, get yourself a free PowerPal smart energy monitor and you will be able to check what appliances are using the most electricity via an app on your phone. I've had mine for over a year now and love it.
OP's 40kwh a day is alot, my last bill is around 21kwh/day, 3 adults 2 kids, 16kw central aircon and we have it on during cold night over night, 2 fridges, dish washer, cloth front loader and 1 cloth drier which is on pretty much daily because of the frequent wet weather. Only difference is my house has solar which feed back to the grid (8 panels don't know how many kw).
Just to point out a very important info apart from some good suggestions, it will depend on how well insulated the home is along with how energy efficient your aircons are. Lots of variable factors here.
For myself, the rental properties have been horrible in terms of insulation so the aircon keeps working harder to maintain the relevant temperature. The newer homes are comparatively energy efficient.
Definitely your neighbours are stealing your electricity. Probably a grow house drug den, or some cypto miner.
You should accuse them of one or both of those things, waving the bill in their face.Come on man ;).
If you have or can get a smart meter installed this can help in terms of seeing how much power you use in a more granular way. Isolation helps, if you do have a smart meter, turn off the aircon for a day or two when the weather isn't going to be too cold and determine a baseline without it, likewise with it on and that way you get an idea of what the AC is costing. If you can't install a smart meter, compare recent bills during times where you know heating/cooling were minimal versus a period of high use.
If heating/cooling costs are high, you can start to look at drafts, open windows etc to determine where you're wasting energy.
You can also get relatively cheap energy monitors that you install between the socket and the device to see how much a device uses in real-time, I have a cheap Belkin Insight that I think cost me $30-40 around 5-6 years ago. I wouldn't rely on it for accuracy but it's a great little tool to quickly test power draw for household items while operational, in standby etc. Has helped me track down many vampire drain items and correct via home automation. I used to average around 16KWH/day but in the past few years I've gotten this down to 14.5KWH/day and this is while working from home by simply being aware of vampire drain, closing doors/windows/using door snakes while aircon is in use and via automation of devices that don't need to be supplied power in standby.
I guess it goes back to asking yourself the Five Ws in relation to your bill.
2022-08-07 15:30:00 2022-08-07 15:59:59 Consumption 0.056
2022-08-07 15:00:00 2022-08-07 15:29:59 Consumption 0.05
2022-08-07 14:30:00 2022-08-07 14:59:59 Consumption 0.65
2022-08-07 14:00:00 2022-08-07 14:29:59 Consumption 0.037
2022-08-07 13:30:00 2022-08-07 13:59:59 Consumption 0.069
2022-08-07 13:00:00 2022-08-07 13:29:59 Consumption 0.044
2022-08-07 12:30:00 2022-08-07 12:59:59 Consumption 0.069
2022-08-07 12:00:00 2022-08-07 12:29:59 Consumption 0.044
2022-08-07 11:30:00 2022-08-07 11:59:59 Consumption 0.069
There is a jump of usage when I was away and turned off everything
2022-08-07 14:30:00 2022-08-07 14:59:59 Consumption 0.65
Definitely someone is stealing.
Fridge kicked in.
0.65kwh is nothing though. You're talking like 10c of power.Definitely someone is stealing.
If you're going to steal power you don't bother for only 0.65kwh
I am retired, so I get to live out my childhood dream of gaming and watching movies/series as much as I want :) The main takeaway should be how low our power consumption is, considering we are home most of the time, most of which we attribute to using only what we need and making our home as energy efficient as possible. We have solar too, which covers about half of that consumption.