On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:05:14PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > It > > pulls up to 250W so it will cost a little more to power so somewhere > > around $4000 the first year and $1600/year to operate. > > WOW!!! Your electricity is EX..PEN...SIVE! Assuming my math is right, > 250W is 1kWh every 4 hours, that that means 6kWh/day * 365 days/year == > 2190 kWh/year. To cost $1600 to operate you're paying $0.73/kWh!?! I... > don't think so. So either your math is wrong or mine is. By my math at > 15c/kWh (which is MUCH more that I pay here in Georgia over the course of > the year), this would cost $328.50/year to operate.
$0.73/kWh does sound high, but in Massachusetts $0.15/kWh only covers the supply charges (as opposed to distribution etc.). However, people paying the $0.15/kWh default rate for their supply charges should look at one of the competitive suppliers. Years ago when I looked the alternatives here mostly served commercial and industrial companies. Yet I enrolled this week with a new supplier and had a couple reasonable choices. I believe the regulation in MA requires "utility consolidated billing" meaning that you'd still only have to deal with one billing entity, so it should be relatively painless to get a better rate on the supply portion of your bill. I got a somewhat better rate even asking for renewable energy (or so it was labeled at least). Also MA has net metering and I think some loan or build incentives if you can do solar, though there's some kind of cap coming into play on the net metering. (There's a petition about that around for those interested.) What puzzles me is what people are doing at home to use up all that disk space. But that's probably not a productive direction for discussion. Like in the "bloated firefox" thread, I guess different people have different ways of using their computers. Disclosure: unlike my last two "marketing" posts, this time I do have a connection to at least one of the companies you could choose, at least for a little bit longer. The place I work writes software for these competitive supppliers and one of our customers is one of your options. But the rates do really look lower, particularly if you can commit to a long term contract. -- Mike Small [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
