Preliminary Estimate of Watts of Electricity Consumed by AHS

Post by **Lightning** » Fri. Feb. 27, 2015 8:42 pm

Here try it this way. I go to the store and buy a 6 pack of beer for $6 bucks.. it's 8 miles each way in my Jeep that gets 16 miles per gallon. Gas is expensive right now at $3.00 a gallon. I split the 6 pack with my neighbor while we talk about coal who insists on giving me $4.50 for the cost of the beer and the gas to go get it.

fuccillo111 · Post by **fuccillo111** » Sat. Feb. 28, 2015 7:49 am

Dang, $33 to run the koker seems like a lot. 1/3 of my bill to one appliance, but gota have it

. Furthermore, not to hijack the thread like I have, but I've replaced every bulb with a LED bulb. Maybe that'll offset some of that expense.

McGiever · Post by **McGiever** » Sat. Feb. 28, 2015 7:52 am

Lightning wrote:$.06 per KW? That don't seem right.. To get your actual cost per KW, divide your total bill amount by the total KWs used. Mine is around $.15 per KW. Sometimes more.

This is how one finds the kWHr. Rate for delivered to the house total cost of electric to any appliance.

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Sat. Feb. 28, 2015 8:45 am

I simply divide the dollars owed to the utility for the month by the KWH's that I have used.

Say I use 500 KWH for the month, and my monthly electric bill for that month is $75.

Them my bottom line cost for the electricity (the only cost that concerns me) is:

75$/500 KWH= $0.15/KWH

fuccillo111 · Post by **fuccillo111** » Sat. Feb. 28, 2015 9:02 am

The delivery seems like it would throw off the actual price to the particular appliance. The delivery cost is being spread out amongst the entire house. So the total is "$.15" but the electric co. charges ".05" per kWh. therefore the other $.10 is delivery cost amongst every other light, TV, DVD, etc., including the koker(in my case). Since there's no way to exclude delivery price for each appliance, I would say exclude that price altogether and use what the elec. co. prints on the bill what they charge you per kWh. Is any one frustrated with me yet?

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Sat. Feb. 28, 2015 9:26 am

A KWH is a KWH, no matter how or where it is being used, or how many are being used. My electric bill currently comes to $0.145/KWH delivered if I use 300 KWH per month or if I use 900 KWH per month (or anything between) . Regardless of how you cut it, or where it goes, or why, my cost is $0.145 per KWH. Why should I have any concern that the electricity portion itself is only $0.07?

McGiever · Post by **McGiever** » Sat. Feb. 28, 2015 3:06 pm

fuccillo111 wrote:The delivery seems like it would throw off the actual price to the particular appliance. The delivery cost is being spread out amongst the entire house. So the total is "$.15" but the electric co. charges ".05" per kWh. therefore the other $.10 is delivery cost amongst every other light, TV, DVD, etc., including the koker(in my case). Since there's no way to exclude delivery price for each appliance, I would say exclude that price altogether and use what the elec. co. prints on the bill what they charge you per kWh. Is any one frustrated with me yet?

If I sell you 22 tons of coal for $22.00 ($1.00/ton)

And charge you $6666.00 dollars to deliver it.

How much did the coal cost you?

And if you sold 2 tons of your coal to your neighbor, Would you charge him just $2.00?

fuccillo111 · Post by **fuccillo111** » Sat. Feb. 28, 2015 4:35 pm

Thanks for clearing things up guys. I do understand that the power company charges you a total of kW used and delivery fee. I just felt like $13 made more sense than $33. $33 just seems so excesive that I figured I was calculating things wrong as I did use the $.16 at first and figured that was wrong, again because that seems like a lot to me. On a positive note I was underestimating the savings on the LED's as I was using a lesser kWh amount...so that's cool.