Quote:
Originally Posted by pinballlooking
How do you only use 218kw in a month?
I used 90kw just today.
|
Hi,
The key to energy is how much you don't use. We have clothes lines for example. I take people to the back of my house and show them my 'Solar Clothes Dryer'! In the winter we use those clothes drying stands. I've used the electric clothes dryer here maybe once in the last year.
The 218KWH is a little misleading though because my off grid/intertie system runs my critical loads and then send excess to the grid.
Unfortunately right now I'm running two freezers to store our organic garden produce for the winter. I'm trying to cut that down but I don't like canning and we're vegetarians so that means we have to freeze the kale, peas, collards, tomatoes and other veggies.
What we get is a good veggies during the winter. We also stock bulk foods, by the way, so we only go to the grocery chain stores every couple of months or so.
I have a root cellar and year round green house on the 'to do' list so we can grow our veggies all winter long but for right now the freezers will have to do.
Before all the PV went in I used about 300 to 400 KWH a month.
Rob