I don't get it either. Maybe they are training LLMs. We're a family of 4 and we use ~90kWh per month.
No difference winter/summer because we have gas heating. Maybe that's where the difference goes.
No difference winter/summer because we have gas heating. Maybe that's where the difference goes.
I'm really curious what people's base load is though. Mine is about 300W which seems very high and I can't figure out what would be using all that power. I guess we have 3 routers, an American style fridge and a Quooker tap, but even so... feels like it should be half that.
Guess I need to go around with a power meter.
One provided by Virgin that contains the cable modem and I have to use. I put it in modem mode though because its WiFi is crap.
One main WiFi router.
One extra one we have in our garden room (main WiFi doesn't reach that far).
> American style fridge-freezers are notoriously inefficient.
Yeah, though the specs for it claim 70 W average. I guess that may be optimistic so call it 100 W. That is quite a bit tbf.
I don't know why getting two separate appliances would be more efficient?
Two separate appliances really was more efficient. The European models were vastly more efficient than the American ones (European ones were like A+ rating; American were like F with not much in between). I think the American style ones are a bit better now, though (they're probably European specific models).
They also say they consume 177kWh in a summer month which amounts to more than 50kWh per day.