Good morning everyone,
I wanted to ask what your house’s electricity consumption is at night when everything is quiet and sleeping, so what is running continuously?
We have a newly built house, moved in summer 2019. Our building services include underfloor heating (air-to-water heat pump), controlled mechanical ventilation (runs at full power 3 times a day for 2 hours each, then reduced), a photovoltaic system, and otherwise the usual nighttime appliances (phone charger plugged into USB outlet, e-bikes charging occasionally, 2 TVs on standby, Alexas on standby, etc.).
At night, we have a continuous consumption of about 232W (with ventilation running at reduced power and when the heat pump is not producing). I can see this in the app for the photovoltaic system. From 0:00 to 6:30 a.m. we consume about 2.8 kWh.
How about you?
Best regards
I wanted to ask what your house’s electricity consumption is at night when everything is quiet and sleeping, so what is running continuously?
We have a newly built house, moved in summer 2019. Our building services include underfloor heating (air-to-water heat pump), controlled mechanical ventilation (runs at full power 3 times a day for 2 hours each, then reduced), a photovoltaic system, and otherwise the usual nighttime appliances (phone charger plugged into USB outlet, e-bikes charging occasionally, 2 TVs on standby, Alexas on standby, etc.).
At night, we have a continuous consumption of about 232W (with ventilation running at reduced power and when the heat pump is not producing). I can see this in the app for the photovoltaic system. From 0:00 to 6:30 a.m. we consume about 2.8 kWh.
How about you?
Best regards
I believe the greatest potential lies in household appliances. We don't have a freezer, but a large refrigerator with two freezer drawers. We don't cook much or very elaborately. We rarely use the dryer, preferring to hang laundry outside on a line. We do not use electric garden tools.
I vacuum the house quite often... both the robot vacuum and the cordless Dyson... I didn’t care as much about it when I lived in an apartment... that really makes a difference... then you have more stuff, like the mentioned electric garden equipment such as the robotic lawn mower and the automatic irrigation system, possibly a second refrigerator, an electric garage door, and with more time spent at home due to working from home... altogether, that adds up compared to the previous apartment...
tomtom79 schrieb:
Don’t be mistaken—charging three phones and a tablet every day isn’t just a few cents a year anymore; it adds up to euros.
People also overlooked the standby LED on TVs for a long time.
The same goes for actuator errors—we have 32 of them, each consuming 1 watt.
Or the digital clock on the wall.
The PC in standby mode.
It all adds up. Just google it—there are plenty of articles on this. Charging phones daily, even two or three, doesn’t cost more than about 5€ per year.
tomtom79 schrieb:
According to a study by EON, the cost is 60 cents for 100 charges. That’s the average; I charge daily, so it amounts to about 3.5 euros per year, but the point here was more about the claim of “a few cents here, a few cents there,” which eventually adds up to 100 euros.That’s why a photovoltaic system > controlled residential ventilation. The only investment in a house that pays for itself over time
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