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 : > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alex Harford wrote: >> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Jake Anderson 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 > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist