• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Whoa $500 per month! Our consumption here in Denmark has been stable around $150 per month for 20 years in 3 different houses. Excluding heating. Prices have gone up, but constantly more energy efficient equipment has curbed that, so we use less electricity now than we did 20 years ago.
    I’m guessing you live somewhere that needs air condition?

    After we bought solar panels I calculated it for 2024 and we paid $8 when deducting sales from our purchases. But we have 4 Winter months where we can’t cover our consumption with the panels alone, because the sun is too low on the sky to give much energy.
    Our system is 11 kWh panels, and 7 kWh battery, I am curious how big your system is?

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      10 days ago

      We have about 40kwh panels and 40kwh battery. We use roughly 1mwh per month, with our biggest consumption between our EV, kitchen appliances, and clothes dryer.

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        10 days ago

        That’s a very nice (big) installation. 😀☀️
        But not as much consumption as I expected from the cost you stated. We use about 500 kWh without the EV, and 650 kWh since we bought the EV, we don̈́t drive so much, our battery can generally last a week on a charge.
        Electricity must be pretty expensive where you live. Seems like you paid 3 times as much for twice the consumption as we do.