Bernie - indeed I had the kWh price wrong, just typing off memory:
Last yearly bill showed it at 5.86 BEF per kWh + 21 % VAT = 7.09 BEF
or 0.15 US$. (I had it as "43" in mind but that was 4.3 and some years
ago...) Though the price relatons remain, my friends in Frankfurt/
Germany pay about half, and I remember Sweden having always lowest
electricity (and telco!) fees in EUrope. These are "household" prices,
commercial rates in Belgium are at a (socially) scandalous difference
lower.
Nuke el production rate *in* Belgium is slightly over 70 % (though
they're sitting in the middle of the Western European grid and there's
lots of trading and throughput and a slightly negative balance of home
production to consumption; France is known to dump current from its
massive socket of nuke plants - these have to go at a steady output,
or not at all - while German and Dutch producers invested heavily in
quick starting gas turbine plants for extra capacity at peak hours,
and the Germans by now have an overcapacity of almost 30 %, which would
be enough to cover the whole consumption of Italy.)
However, even if this would correct the erroneous price indication, a
sleep/standby condition with standing ON always, for the one machine
named, of 100 kWh per year would mean almost 2.5 % of my total
houshold el consumption of slightly over 4 MWh, in standby mode, and
still almost 1 % with ATX-type OFF mode. Regardless of the el prices,
this is still quite a lot of waste, in terms of power consumption.
// Heimo Claasen // < hammer at inti dot be > // Brussels 2000-10-24
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