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Wow, how is 100 kWh/day even possible? We consume about 3 kWh/day (excl. heating) in our standard-sized 2-person Dutch household, living pretty normal life.

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Its going to be 39C at about 60% humidity today here with a bright sun beating down. My home has some decent insulation, double paned low-E windows without metal framing, thick attic blown insulation, etc. AC is set for about 26C. I'll probably still use about 70kWh of power today with the majority of that being the AC. A pool pump uses a good bit of power too though, pumping about 60,000 gallons of water through the filters uses a good bit of power.

You can do 3kWh maybe if you are not cooking using electricity or running a cleaning machine for dishes or clothes.

I've installed an electricity meter 2 weeks ago, and the lowest it got was 4,8 kWh/day in a 2-person Croatian household, although I do have a small Synology NAS running 24/7 and we have a TV on for a couple of hours.

We do 3kWh/d including a dishwasher and washing machine, electric oven, kettle etc. We use gas stove and we don't have air conditioning.

2 Adults, 2 kids, also close to 10 kWh per day (cooking on electricity (induction) but showering on natural gas, 0.6-0.8 m3/day). When we are not home, it's about 4 kWh per day (2 freezers, 1 fridge, home server, router etc). Big sources are Laundry, dishwasher, hot water in the kitchen (5L boiler).

But we heat the house on gas, and last december we burned about 180 m3 of it. Now, during summer, (in the Netherlands) we don't need heating or air-conditioning.

2 adults, 1 kid, belgium. One adult is always WFH (we alternate). Average of 13KWh per day. There is a server rack running in the basement though 24/7 but its optimized (nucs and rpis and no costly energy burning servers) and this rack alone accounts for 3-4 KWh per day (out of the 13)

We heat and cook using natural gas.

The biggest consumer are the same here. Dishwasher and laundry.

Also Home Assistant [0] with SlimmeLezer [1, or is this a Dutch thing?] and Shelly Plug S [2]? :)

All that stuff gives one great insights into what a kWh is (how much energy), where you use the most energy etc. I love it.

[0]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/08/04/home-energy-ma...

[1]: https://www.zuidwijk.com/product/slimmelezer/

[2]: https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-plug-s-smart-home-autom...

Not sure how you are managing this, are you sure your numbers are correct? When I turn my kettle on it consumes more then 2kW, yes it is running for a few minutes at a time but it all adds up, not to mention the electric oven.

With all major appliances off (except the fridge/freezer) I consume ~0,13 kW/h, that adds up to 3,36 kWh in 24 hours.

24kWh a day here. Fairly large house near Cape Town, South Africa. This is excluding heating in winter, for which we mainly use a slow combustion fireplace and also natural gas. Stove is also natural gas. Rarely use AC for cooling.

> how is 100 kWh/day even possible

Easy, live in a house 4x the size of a 2-person Dutch household and in a climate that averages 10 degrees C warmer, like would be common in the southeast US.

80 here

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