too much :)

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

. . . another 'understatement' eh Sir Ulli . . . ;) same 'ere :>

$220 on a budget plan (spreads payments out to equalize them)..

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This is a very sad thread. :(

My bill is $0 per year. :)

I get free electricity but I'm still very careful how I use it. High efficiency bulbs, no A/C, turn off anything that's not being used etc. All the green stuff. :P

Guess this is all a bit unusual.

I just love a good gloat. :D

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Qunpu' lo'taHmo' jIH yItamQo'

I'll be vague...

Mine was less than $2k for the last month.

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Dublin, California
Team: SETI.USA

I am running a 400 MHz PII 24/7. My electricity consumption is 4 kWh/day, no air conditioning, only efficient lightbulbs, freezer, radio, TV, washing machine and an occasional lawnmower. My last electricity bill was 32 euro for two months.
Tullio

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My electric bill is about US$250 to US$300 a month. The house is all electric (don't even have a gas meter, though my neighbor does), so that increases my electric bill. I take all sorts of steps to reduce my kiloWatt hours used, thereby reducing my bill: CFL bulbs, good wall and ceiling insulation, double glazed windows WITH storm windows, replaced older appliances with newer, more efficient ones, etc., etc. However, my bill is bumped back up with my choice of electric company. Electricity from 'green' sources costs more...

Ya pays yer money, and ya takes yer choice.

This is a very sad thread. :(

My bill is $0 per year. :)

I get free electricity but I'm still very careful how I use it. High efficiency bulbs, no A/C, turn off anything that's not being used etc. All the green stuff. :P

Guess this is all a bit unusual.

I just love a good gloat. :D

What you have a PV system installed on the roof?
Yeah I'm thinking about installing a 1225w PV system on My houses roof soon, I just have to get a loan, And I have other things to do to save electricity, Like Dual Pane windows(I have Single Pane windows and their a real pain);), Silver Window film, Window awnings, etc.

No PV but that would be nice. The situation is complicated but has to do with my son renting a house he owns to some of his friends. In return for lower rent for them I get free electricty from them. I am connected to their house and where I live is on the rental property.

Hope that makes sense, it is an unusual situation but I'm not complaining. :D

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Qunpu' lo'taHmo' jIH yItamQo'

In Moscow 25$ a month. 600kwh.

In Moscow 25$ a month. 600kwh.

Very cheap. I pay 19 eurocent/kWh.
Tullio

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Branching off from another thread,
Just paid my last electric bill for $329.00 and pence. What are some of me fellow crunchers paying to keep up the good fight?

roughly $400.00Au for this period.(enjoys the abuse.)

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My last bill was around $190 running 11 computers, AC, the fridge, and the other usual stuff.

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$65!

This is the low-usage point for the year (in Seattle, WA, USA, there is little need for A/C in the summer). In the winter, we hit a high of $150 in December or January.

This is for an all-electric home with an efficient air-exchange heat pump which both heats and cools.

I have only one machine which runs 24/7 - a dual-core Pentium D. I figure it uses about $5.00 a month. Well worth the price.

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You forgot landscaping. I planted some fast growing trees along the south side of my house. They shade the house in the summer and after dropping thier leaves, they let the sun shine on it in the winter. They have other benifits too. Amazing how working with nature can make a big diffrence.

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My electric bill this month was $279. That is for my house my Mothers house and our store. I combined them with our own meters when I put the utilities underground. Just the charges and taxes from 3 bills to 1 saved me a grip. For air conditioning I put big exhaust fans in the Attic and shut all doors except attic and basement and it sucks cool air throughout all day. Of course my computer room doesn't seem to get the circulation....but the rest of the place stays comfortable.

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

It doesn't help that I have to charge 2 electric wheelchairs nightly either...

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Now this is a useful thread on how to reduce consumption...
Yes, I'd love my own personal carbon free solar power station one day, there's plenty of sun in Budapest but I live in a ground floor flat with an enclosed courtyard so don't see much of it.

When I lived in England, I made a "fusion powered kettle" from a 1.2m satellite dish and some aluminised foil spread over the dish, sealed and partially evacuated the air inside. The power of this thing was phenomenal... Result: free hot water.
It also made a nice "cold collector"... put the dish covered in al foil in a big styrofoam box to radiate heat to space, well away from buildings and the temperature can plummet below freezing, even in summer. Result, free A/C!

Mark, I have to question the wisdom of a 540W phase change cooler to squeeze an extra 10% or so out of the quad!
In addition to the extra cost of the cooler, that's $840 a year in CO2!

Better perhaps to ease off the clocking and get another machine then run both for 12 hours on the cheap elec and keep the RAC humming along...

But knowing you, that'd never happen! :-)

The time finally came to switch the machines off. It was costing about £1600 quid a year (uk money) to run 24 machines. I have 2 left running. When they run out thats it. I forget how much elecy has gone up in the UK in the last year, but when I got my last bill the time had come to stop.

Tiz a shame...

Nairb

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My most recent bill is $246.52. I run 5 computers all the time (though I just recently added two more crunchers to the mix, will show up on next month's bill), plus Central AC which has been acting up (not keeping up with the thermostat on hot days; have already paid over $300 to have it looked at but no one has fixed it even though it worked great the first three years I had it [and yes, I've done all the typical maintenance and cleaning on it]). I imagine it would be $50-$80 cheaper if I could get my AC working right.

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The time finally came to switch the machines off. It was costing about £1600 quid a year (uk money) to run 24 machines. I have 2 left running. When they run out thats it. I forget how much electricity has gone up in the UK in the last year, but when I got my last bill the time had come to stop.

Tiz a shame...

Nairb

Your Electricity is sure expensive over there, If I'm reading the Pound vs the Dollar exchange rate It's near $266 a month over there. My relatives are right France was less expensive than the UK, It used to be the other way around at one time from what My Dad wrote once.

France uses higher % Nuke power than any other country, and it is indeed pretty cheap. I remember when working at Bull near Paris the people would open the windows to their offices to let cold air in during the winter rather than turn down the steam heat.

In Phoenix, I pay about $170 per month year round. That keeps my home at about 74F in summer and 68 in winter. It also heats and runs the Jacuzzi 3 or 4 PC systems TV, cooking etc.

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When we finally figure it all out, all the rules will change and we can start all over again.

Well, if your PF gets way out of whack your electric company can charge you for it. You see, a poor PF is wasted power. Think of bouncing energy back and forth between you and the generator. There is a certain line loss due to the pure resistance of the wire. There is also as you mentioned the pure VA capacity of the wire. If your bouncing the power back to the generator your using up part of the ampacity of the wire.
:)

I'll have to check on our $ for electricity.
My rack is in the garage. The temp in the garage today was 91 oF. In the rack it was 101.7 oF
-s

Well.........
Just took some measurements with my Kill-A-Watt, and found out that......

The OC'd quaddy draws about 299 watts, 300va from the mains, with an almost perfect power factor of .99 under full Seti crunching load.

When you are sizing equipment (wire gauge, UPS or generator capacity) it's all about VA.

When you pay the power company, you pay for watts.

So, unless you're the power company, a good power factor generally isn't that important.

For the discussion, about $130/month. The first 10 KWH each day costs about $0.10, the last 5 KWH each day costs $0.29.

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