[mikester]

So, I am in Socal and Socal Edison (SCE) has a pretty nifty website that shows you fairly detailed statistics of your electrical consumption. It gets down to hourly usage and they store a pretty good amount of back data. Having been an ISP capacity planner in the past I can appreciate what they are doing.

Our consumption seems way high though so I have started measuring. I purchased a 'kill-a-watt' a while back because I was concerned about how much electricity I needed for my lab. So I had the thing and I started with my forced air heating unit yesterday. I measured for 24 hours and it use 2.53 kW hours. The total for yesterday's usage based on SCE's site was about 30 kW hours (which seems astronomical to me). I expected the air unit to be a larger percentage than it was, especially since it needs the air filter replaced badly (had to order it on line cause it is an odd size). Once I replace the filter I'm going to measure again just to see what the difference is in those states.

Today I put the meter on my entertainment devices - mainly the TIVO which I suspect will have a pretty decent consumption. It has spinning disks and everything and doesn't really 'sleep' even when the TV is off. It's always going - it'll be sad if it is the one of the worst offenders because I do love that thing. I expect that it will be...

I have a small freezer, a large refrigerator/freezer, a washer/dryer combo and the dish washer from a large appliance perspective. I have a few computers around the house but they are lower consumption types and not on 100% of the time.

The Tivo I suspect I could upgrade to an SSD internal drive pretty easily enough but it'll cost a bunch to do that and maintain the capacity I like.

Anyone else do this sort of thing? My new year's resolution was to make the house more energy efficient. Now I have to hunt vampires.