1600 Watts Run Continuously is How Many Kwh
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Energy Use of Home Appliances
How much electricity do our appliances use? You can usually find the wattage of most appliances on the nameplate on the back or bottom of the appliance. The wattage listed is the maximum power drawn by the appliance. Wattage = current X voltage. Often you will see the letters UL on the nameplate, which means the product has been tested to safety standards. Adjusting volume or changing settings can affect the actual amount of power consumed. Many appliances draw small amounts of power even when they are turned off. These "phantom loads" occur in VCR's, televisions, stereos, computers and increase the appliance's energy consumption a few watts per hour. Below is a list of some common household items and the wattage used for each.
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APPLIANCE WATTAGE APPLIANCE WATTAGE clock radio 10 coffee maker 900-1200 - clothes washer
350-500 clothes dryer 1800-5000 dishwasher 1200-2400 ceiling fan 65-175 hair dryer 1200-1875 clothes iron 1000-1800 microwave 750-1100 refrigerator 1725 computer: CPU 120 VCR/DVD 17-21/20-25 Computer: Monitor 150 19" color television 110 stereo 400 water bed 120-380 - Now let's calculate the annual cost to run an appliance for a year.
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- Multiply this number by your local utility's rate per kWh consumed (In Denver the cost is 8.9 cents/kWh) to calculate annual cost.
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- EXAMPLE
- If John uses a window fan (200 watts) 4 hours a day for 120 days per year, how much does it cost him to run his fan per year?
- 200 X 4 X 120 = 96 kWh
- 1000
- 96 kWh X 8.9 Cents/kWh = $8.16 per year
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- PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
- After school each day, Sally uses her computer to do her homework. If she has an average of two hours of homework per night for 180 days of school per year, how many Kilowatt-hours are consumed and what is the annual cost of using her computer? A CPU and monitor use 270 Watts.
- Choose a home appliance that you use and calculate your own energy consumption.
- Appliance: _________________
- Wattage: __________________
- Hours used Per Day: ________
- You can determine wattage, voltage and current using the following formulas:
- wattage = current X voltage
- current = wattage/ voltage
- voltage = wattage/current
- Fill in the chart below. The copier has been completed as an example.
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APPLIANCE VOLTAGE CURRENT WATTAGE COST HOURS/YEAR ANNUAL COST copier 115V 11A 1265W $0.08kWh 120 $12.00 printer 120V 5.5A monitor 120V 2.0A computer 200-240V 3.0A fax machine 1.0A 45W TV 120V 75W microwave 120V 1500W scanner 100-240V 2.0A -
- Lighting Dilemma
American homes contain over 3 billion light fixtures. It takes about 138 billion kilowatt-hours of energy per year to operate these lights. 6-10% of our electricity bills are spent on lighting costs. The most common light bulbs in our homes today are incandescent or halogen bulbs. There are also Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs). Compact Fluorescent lights contain gas instead of a wire filament. The electric current makes the gas glow, which produces very little heat. CFLs last up to 10 times longer and use 70% less energy. Using energy efficient bulbs can both save money and natural resources.
How much energy/money can be saved by replacing our light bulbs with Compact Fluorescent Lights?
- 1. Search your home and count the number of lights in each room. Each halogen light uses three times the energy and must be counted three times.
- 2. Calculate the number of hours the lights are used in each room each day.
- 3. Enter the data below.
Number of lights Number of hours Lights X hours = TOTAL Living Room ______________ ______________ _____________ Dining Room ______________ _____________ ______________ Kitchen ______________ ______________ ______________ Bedrooms ______________ ______________ ______________ Bathrooms ______________ ______________ ______________ Hallways ______________ ______________ ______________ Family Room ______________ ______________ ______________ Outside Lights ______________ ______________ ______________ TOTAL ______________
Each energy efficient CFL bulb saves 50 watts, how many watt-hours could you save if you replaced all bulbs with CFLs?
Total hours of operation X 50 watts = _________Watt hours you would save each day
Divide your answer by 1,000 since there are 1,000 watt-hours in a Kilowatt-hour (which is how your utility bills you)
Watt hours / 1,000 = _______________ kilowatt-hours you would save
Take this answer and multiply it by 365 (the days in a year) to calculate the Kilowatt-hours saved in a year.
Kilowatt hours X 365 = __________Kilowatt-hours saved in a year
To calculate the amount of money your family could save in a year, take the Kilowatt-hours saved in a year times the cost per Kilowatt-hour ( in Denver it is $.089).
Kilowatt-hours saved X $.089 = ______________Amount saved per year!
In addition to saving money, we use less electricity! Using less electricity means producing less greenhouse gases. If we assume that every kilowatt-hour saved removes 2 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air, how much greenhouse gases could be prevented?
Kilowatt-hours saved in a year X 2 pounds = _______________pounds of greenhouse gas prevented
Reading Electric Meters
Understanding how we use energy can help us better conserve energy. Many different energy sources are used to generate electricity-but more than half of the electricity in the United States is generated by coal-fired power plants. Electricity enters a home through a distribution line that passes through a meter that measures the amount of electricity consumed in kilowatt-hours.
Reading an electric meter is easy. The face of the meter has five dials with the numbers 0-9 on each dial. The dials are not identical though. On the first dial, the numbers increase in a clockwise direction. On the next meter, the numbers increase in the opposite direction, in a counter-clockwise direction. Each dial alternates from clockwsie to counter-clockwise as shown. To read a meter, you read the dials from right to left and record the numbers. If the pointer is between two numbers, you always record the smaller number.
EXAMPLE
Monday morning the meter looked like this:
Friday morning the meter looked like this:
The meter reading Monday would be 40565 and on Friday it would be 41615
To figure out how much electricity was used, subtract Monday's reading from Friday's reading like this:
41,615 - 40,565 = 1,050 kilowatt-hours
Based on electricity costs in Denver of $.089 per kilowatt-hour, the total cost would be: 1,050 X $.089 = $93.45
PROBLEM TO SOLVE
On January 1, the meter looked like this:
On January 31, the meter looked like this:
How many kilowatt-hours of electricity were used during January?
If the cost of electricity in Denver is $.089 per kWh, how much did electricity cost for January?
What is the average cost of electricity per day during January?
Monitor home energy use by reading the electric meter each morning for a week and determine the cost per week of electricity in your own home.
Turn off the power for just one hour. Monitor electricity during a normal hour at home and then turn off as many electrical devices as possible for an hour and record the difference in electrical use.
How To Read Utility Bills
Electric companies monitor electric consumption with meters that measure the amount of electricity consumed in buildings. Electricity is measured in kilowatt-hours-kWh. The average cost of electricity in the US is approximately eight cents.
Utilities usually read meters once a month, although some utilities read meters every other month and estimate readings for teh months inbetween. Bills are sent to customers monthly, providing detailed information on the amount of energy consumed and the rate structure for billing.
Many customers can opt for a budget plan, in which they pay the same amount to the utilities each month, regardless of the actual amount of energy they use. This spreads out the seasonal fluctuations in energy use-high heating costs in winter and high cooling costs in summer.
Look at the sample electric bill below. Use the information provided to answer the questions that follow.
BUZZ LITE ENERGY COMPANY
DATE METER READING DECEMBER 1 970 DECEMBER 8 1040 DECEMBER 15 1230 DECEMBER 22 1410 DECEMBER 29 1640 JANUARY 2 2260 JANUARY 9 2370 JANUARY 16 2680 JANUARY 22 2920
1. Using the meter readings from January 9th and December 8th, what was the total kilowatt hour usage?
2. Calculate the actual cost by using the rate schedule. Show your work for each step:
UTILITY RATES:
basic charge(your cost to be connected to the Utility company) ( $7.00 ) +
kWh first 800 ( $.06 ) +
kWh over 800 ( $.08 ) = (your cost) =$ ___________
Students: Click on the button at the left to connect to the Measurement Worksheet
Created for the NTEP II Fermilab LInC program sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Education Office and Friends of Fermilab, and funded by United States Department of Energy, Illinois State Board of Education, North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium which is operated by North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), and the National Science Foundation. Authors: Sue Emmons, Powell Middle School, Littleton, CO; Kevin Lindauer, John F. Kennedy High School, Denver, CO; Linda Lung, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; John Sepich, Scott Carpenter Middle School, Westminster, CO; ; Janet Stellema, Monarch K-8, Louisville, CO. Created: September 9, 1998 - Updated: October 3, 2001. URL: /ntep/f98/projects/nrel_energy_2/measurement.html
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