ᐅ House electricity consumption – what is your usage?

Created on: 6 Oct 2020 06:29
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chewbacca123
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
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Zaba12
16 Dec 2020 11:53
halmi schrieb:

Yeah, on the fairly nice days I had 10-15cm (4-6 inches) of snow on the modules...

You can’t see the compressors there, but there was no impulse yesterday. The heating ran continuously until yesterday noon for over two weeks and then switched off for the first time at 7 degrees Celsius (45°F) outside temperature.
Why can’t you see the grid feed-in? Do you have a day where you can see the compressor impulses over 24 hours including the grid feed-in?
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halmi
16 Dec 2020 11:57
I’m not entirely sure what you want to know from me.

In the screenshot, you can see the total values. I can’t say how much electricity the dishwasher used. Or what do you mean?
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Zaba12
16 Dec 2020 12:05
Then we are talking past each other. Your screenshot shows only the electricity generation. I have that as well. Additionally, I also have a graph showing the household consumption. You can see when the heat pump starts there. Do you have a house consumption graph like that?
debaser16 Dec 2020 12:09
Zaba12 schrieb:

The system no longer lags by 8 hours like it did 4 months ago, but only by 30-45 minutes now. So that’s already an improvement 😎. Basically, when I’m at home, I always check the data through the inverter interface.
Well, at least that’s something 😎 I mostly just use the e3dc app now. The storage system receives all the data, and the app actually delivers it almost in real time.
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halmi
16 Dec 2020 12:10
What you see here shows the total energy consumption of the house; it is not directly related to the heat pump. I have a separate meter for that.

Blauer Eltako-Drehstromzähler DSZ15D-3x80A in einer Wandverkleidung.
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Zaba12
16 Dec 2020 12:20
halmi schrieb:

What you see there shows the total consumption of the house; it is not directly related to the heat pump. I have a separate meter for that.

That's a pity. I assumed that the grid consumption would be shown as well, like it is in my case. Because I suspect I need to optimize my heat pump. The compressor pulses seem to me to occur too frequently per hour. Nearly 10,000 kWh (10,000 kWh) over 1.5 years seems too much without being an expert.

Blue display of a machine control panel with operating hours (VD1, ZWE1, heating) and runtime information.

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