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Conserving Energy One
Home at a Time
Rich McCue – January 2015
rmccue@uvic.ca
Linux
How Much do we
Spend on Electricity?
$85 /
monthHeating
Hot Water
Cooking
Dryer$12 /
person
88 watts
129 watts
175 watts
How do we
Measure
Electrical
Usage?
Kilowatt hour
1000 watts
per hour
X 10 hours = 1 kWh
100
Watt
X 10 hours = $0.10
What does a Kilowatt Hour of
Electricity Cost in 2014?
How much electricity does
your Home use?
88 watts
$39 / year
Dell Optiplex 780
22 watts
$10 / year
Dell Latitude E5400
4 watts
$1.75 / year
iPad
4500 watts,
2hrs / day
$360 / year
60 Gallon Hot Water
Tank
6000 watts,
1/2 hr / day
$120 / year
Cloths Dryer
Relative Consumption
per Hour
Relative Consumption
per Hour
How Do We Measure Electrical
Draw at Home?
Per Plug: Kill A Watt
BCHydro.com
BC Hydro “Home Energy
Monitoring Program”
$35
bchydro.com/energymonitor
60 watts 9.5 watts
4500 watts 9.5 watts
10 Hours
=
15 Min
What Has Rich Done at
Home?
Heat Recovery…
$1500
Windows &
Sealing &
Insulation
$4000
What Has Rich Done at
Home?
Solar Hot Water
$4000
Power
Pipe
$800
What Has Rich Done at
Home?
Heat Pump
w/ programmable
thermostat
$6000
What Has Rich Done at
Home?
$35
What Did It Cost Rich?
● Windows & Insulation: $4000
● Heat Pump & Thermostat: $6000
● Solar Hot Water: $4000
● Heat Recovery Ventilation: $1500
Where to Start?
2 No Brainers:
● Home Energy Assessment:
http://www.solarcolwood.ca/
● BC HydroHome Energy Monitor
Next Steps:
● Work on low cost items:
● Insulation
● Seal up a Leaky House
● clothesline
http://http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/
Returns on Investment?
● Programmable Thermostat. 1yr.
● Air Leaks. 2yrs.
● Water Heater Insulation. 2yrs.
● Shower Head. 2yrs.
http://www.think-energy.net/ecm_payback.htm
Look for
Energy Star
equipment ...
Next
Computer or
appliance?
Suggestion, Comments,
Stories?
Rich McCue
UVic Libraries
rmccue@uvic.ca
http://richmccue.com

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Conserving Energy One Home at a Time

Editor's Notes

  1. My name is Rich McCue, and I work for the Library at the University of Victoria.
  2. I am a Linux, Mac and a MS Windows systems administrator.
  3. I am also an Educational Technologist
  4. I graduated from the UVic Faculty of Business a long time ago… More recently I completed a Masters in Education…
  5. I’m currently helping setup a Digital Scholar Lab & MakerSpace at the Library at UVic. I’m hoping that this presentation will be useful, and even if it doesn’t make you a Super Hero...
  6. … For saving the Environment… I hope that it will help you save yourself a lot of Money...
  7. Let’s get started by finding out a bit about all of us…
  8. Go to Google Doc spreadsheet to find out how much people are spending per month.
  9. At my house with 7 people living there… [NEXT] we spend $85 per month. [NEXT] We use electricity for Heating, Hot water, Cooking and cloths drying. [NEXT] That works out to $12 per person per month.
  10. Does anyone know how much electricity an average desktop computer and monitor use? This is a trick question... [NEXT] With the monitor at 50% brightness this computer uses 88 watts of electricity. About the same as 10 LCD bulbs. [NEXT] With the monitor at 100% brightness it uses 129 watts.
  11. To produce 80 watts of electricity, you’d have to pedal quite hard on a stationary bike...
  12. I’ve thought about trying to power my kid’s XBox and 60” LCD TV with a stationary bike... guess how many adult powered stationary bikes it would take to comfortably power game setup? [NEXT] About 3. XBox = ~100 Watts, 46” TV = ~75 watts Total wattage = 175 watts
  13. How do we Measure? [NEXT] We Measure everything piece of equipment using a Kill A Watt (Only $25 on NewEgg.ca). It can measure the power consumption of all types of equipment: printers, lamps, monitors, TV’s...
  14. What unit do we measure electricity in? [NEXT] In Watt & Kilowatt hours…
  15. Which Equals…
  16. 1 thousand watts per hour…
  17. So that lightbulb running for 10 hours would cost about $0.10 to light things up.
  18. In BC it’s currently between 8 and 12 cents per kilowatt hour averaging at about 10 cents.
  19. How much electricity do our electrical devices use? To be honest, I had no idea, until I measured a few years ago...   
  20. 88 watts with the display at 50% brightness.
  21. 22 watts
  22. 4 watts
  23. This is our jumbo dryer…
  24. Electrical usage across devices varies greatly. The iPad uses very little electricity... Laptops also use electricity sparingly, but desktop computers without power saving settings enabled use quite a bit of electricity. Most people don’t know this. When my kids are playing on our XBox and the 60” TV, they use a lot of electricity: A combined 175 watts, as opposed to my 4 watts as I surf on my iPad ;-)
  25. Electrical usage across devices varies greatly. The iPad uses very little electricity... Laptops also use electricity sparingly, but desktop computers without power saving settings enabled use quite a bit of electricity. Most people don’t know this. When my kids are playing on our XBox360 and the 46” TV, they use a lot of electricity: A combined 325 watts, as opposed to my 4 watts as I surf on my iPad ;-)
  26. Let’s put some of these number into context... This is my office at work... and this next slide shows how my behaviours affect how much power my office consumes...
  27. Office occupied & in use 194 Rich just walks away 130 Turns off lights & walks away 62 Sleeps comps & turns off lights 10 Sleeps comps, turns off lights & power bar 2
  28. Next: To measure a single small appliance, I use a device called the “Kill-A-Watt”. It will both measure the draw at a point in time, or over a period of time Next: For measure the whole house, including large appliances like hot water tanks, heat pumps and stoves, your new smart meter can help you out…
  29. Everyone in BC can now track their usage through BCHydro.com
  30. With an Energy Monitor I can view my energy consumption from in real time in my kitchen, which is very helpful for figuring out what the big users of electricity are in a house or apartment.
  31. A short anecdote about why measuring power consumption of different devices and appliance is so important if we want to really make a difference. Next: Several years ago we replaced all our incandescent bulbs with... Next: compact fluorescents (and later LED bulbs) to try to reduce our electrical consumption. And it did, a little bit... we could see a small savings on our monthly bill... We also strongly encouraged our children to turn off any lights that weren’t being used...
  32. After we started measuring how much electricity we were using in real time, we discovered that... Next: Whenever our hot water tank turned on it uses 4500 watts of electricity. Compare that with the... Next: 10 Watts that a lightbulb uses. I did some quick calculations and discovered that...
  33. If I turned on the lights in our… [NEXT]: Kitchen, and our [NEXT] Living Room, and our [NEXT] Front Entry Way for 10 Hours [NEXT]: That would Equal.... [NEXT]: A 15 minute shower! So if you like taking leisurely 30 minute showers. Cutting it back to a 15 minute shower would be the equivalent of having all your living area lights turned off for 10 hours!
  34. [NEXT] $4000 for windows & insulation [NEXT] $1500 for heat recovery
  35. Solar hot water $4000 Power Pipe $800
  36. Heat pump $6000
  37. How fast your payback is depends on how much you use the system. For example 7 people using hot water in a house will pay back an investment in a solar hot water, shower head & power pipe system much more quickly than a couple would.
  38. 4. Buy Energy Star equipment... make power consumption a consideration along with price... Factor Energy cost into long term pricing.  
  39. Now back to electronics & technology... Now that you are taking shorter showers at home, how can you save electricity in your cubicle at work?
  40. 1. Turn off your computer at night.
  41. 2. Enable power saving options on your computer.
  42. 3. Turn off your lights whenever you leave your office