Home Energy Audit
I am married and my wife and I currently live an apartment. The energy consumed by most of our items we can change to more energy-efficient product. What I found out about the energy consumption of everything in our home is that our appliances cost the most. This was a surprise to me as I never would have guessed that most of what I pay for is in the kitchen, but it makes sense as the fridge is running 24/7. Also, we are fortunate to not have a washer and dryer which I think would increase our energy bill quite a bit. My total was about $113 a month, which is not correct. I may have overestimated on the amount of hours that we use some devices and maybe I fibbed on some of the data collected, but I felt that I had fairly accurate data representation. The electric bill averages about $75 during the summer and $90 during the winter. Looking at my data on phantom loads, I was able to find just about everything by looking at if they still consume power while they are "off"...