Wednesday, January 2, 2008

What's Sucking Up All My Electricity?

Here's the best energy calculator EVER, courtesy of Nova Scotia Power. They also have great tips on saving on your heating bill plus quick/easy/free tips on increasing your energy efficiency.

The energy calculator is a little exhausting (Power Saws has its own section- maybe it's a Canadian thing) but it gives you a great picture of how your bill is divided among your appliances and also is great for comparisons.

For instance you can see that an old cathode ray tube monitor uses 228% more energy than an LCD monitor, but an LCD TV uses about 133% more energy than a CRT TV. Plasma TVs are the worst- they use 221% more power than CRTs. So it's also a great way to make your future appliance/electronics purchasing decisions more environmentally conscious!

2 comments:

elliott said...

Here is the electric usage in the apartment for the past year - though I'm not sure why Dec. 06 is so low.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pDhTyMJDUqJSAt2ROEKrdBw

elliott said...

and here our the current rates.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dgxscnf2_52gn6pgrhq&hl=en