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<\/p>\nFrom 13000 kWh to 1400 kWh, saving\u00a0\u20ac\u00a02320 per year….<\/p>\n
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After my enthousiasm about my first solar panel<\/a>, I started to investigate my power consumption in my house<\/p>\n Soon, I learned that my electricity consumption in recent years has increased slowly, until an extremely high consumption (for Dutch standards) of 13000 kWh per year. That means an electricity bill of more than \u20ac 2600 per year! This triggered my action plan to started to be energy neutral.\u00a0<\/p>\n As a comparison, the electricity consumption of an average household (2.4 people) in the Netherlands in 2004 was 3346 kWh \/ year. A larger family uses more electricity in general, see the table below.<\/p>\n The yearly power consumption for different household sizes in the Netherlands:<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0milieu centraal<\/a><\/p>\n This triggered me to investigate what caused my high power consumption…..<\/p>\n On the website of\u00a0milieu centraal<\/a>\u00a0have found good overview of the major power\u00a0consumers\u00a0in a house. I used this as an guide to find my major power consumers.<\/p>\n Using this list I made an overview of my largest power consumers and an action plan how I could save energy with the same type of\u00a0comfort. This resulted in the following actions to save energy:<\/p>\n * Assumption: Average use of lights 4 hours per day.<\/p>\n My action plan resulted in reducing my yearly power consumption from 13000 kWh to 3718 kWh. This saves me \u20ac 1856, – per year on my\u00a0electricity\u00a0bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n The other reduction is achieved by my new solar panels, which provide 2280 kWh per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 13000 kWh to 1400 kWh, saving\u00a0\u20ac\u00a02320 per year….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n Device<\/th>\n Average annual power usage in kWh<\/th>\n Average costs per year
\n\u20ac 0,20 per kWh (single-tariff\u00a0price of 2006).<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n\n Waterbed<\/td>\n 200-1000<\/td>\n \u20ac 40,- til \u20ac 200,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dryer<\/td>\n 599<\/td>\n \u20ac 120,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lights<\/td>\n 540<\/td>\n \u20ac 108,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cooking equipment<\/td>\n 55 – 530<\/td>\n \u20ac 11,- – \u20ac 106,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Elektrical boiler (80 -100 liter)<\/td>\n 1900<\/td>\n \u20ac 380,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n R<\/span>efrigerator \/ freezer 2-doors<\/td>\n 462<\/td>\n \u20ac 92,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Large freezer<\/td>\n 380<\/td>\n \u20ac 76,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n R<\/span>efrigerator with small freeze compartment<\/td>\n 286<\/td>\n \u20ac 57,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Washing machine<\/td>\n 231<\/td>\n \u20ac 46,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dishwasher<\/td>\n 305<\/td>\n \u20ac 61,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Central heating pump<\/td>\n 270<\/td>\n \u20ac 54,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Computer<\/td>\n 146<\/td>\n \u20ac 29,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n TV<\/td>\n 138<\/td>\n \u20ac 28,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Video-recorder<\/td>\n 108<\/td>\n \u20ac 22,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Coffee machine<\/td>\n 80<\/td>\n \u20ac 16,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Vacuum<\/td>\n 54<\/td>\n \u20ac 11,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Audio equipment (midiset)<\/td>\n 52<\/td>\n \u20ac 10,-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n
\n Device<\/th>\n Before<\/th>\n Now<\/th>\n Reduction<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dryer<\/td>\n 2 x week dryer (1.8 kWh \/ run) the whole year<\/td>\n dry in the sun (outside) 50% of the year, dryer other 50% of the time<\/td>\n 0.26 kWh \/ day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lights<\/td>\n 2 x dimmed halogen lights (160W), 5 x halogen spot lights (100W)<\/td>\n 3 CFL lights (25W), 3 CFL reflector spots (21W), 2 led spot (2W)<\/td>\n 0.85 kWh \/ day *<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n R<\/span>efrigerator<\/td>\n Refrigerator, freezer and a combi (3.3kWh \/ day)<\/td>\n New refrigerator \/ freeze combi energy efficient (A+ label) \u00a0(0.6 kWh \/ day)<\/td>\n 2.7 kWh \/ day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Computers<\/td>\n multimedia pc (100W), gateway pc (60W), server (250W), desktop pc (180W) all continuous on<\/td>\n multimedia pc (60W), laptop (30W), server (100W) only the server stays on<\/td>\n 11.76 kWh \/ day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Airco<\/td>\n Split unit Airco (1250W), 4 months \/ year continue<\/td>\n Passive cooling by using shutters on the house (outside)<\/td>\n 9.86 kWh \/ day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Total<\/td>\n 25.43 kWh\/ day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n