Electricity Challenge Wrap UP
With all the Christmas festivity, I never did get around to doing an electricity challenge wrap up. I’m going to run another challenge at some point in 2008.
Here’s how we went for the 2007 challenge:
Our bill came in at less than HALF of what it did last quarter!!!! HOORAY! Admittedly last quarter was an unusually high bill for us for some reason. Still, I’m really happy not to have a repeat of that shock!
My goal is to get our average daily electricity usage down to 16kWh’s per day (not including hot water). So far we’re down to 19.2kWh’s which DOES include hot water. So I think we’re getting pretty close. This will be higher in the summer and winter months due to cooling and heating. Given we use around 3kWh’s per day for hot water during spring, we are indeed VERY close.
Doing a direct comparison between average daily usage at the same time last year, we’ve reduced our usage from 21.5kWh’s per day to 19.2kWh’s per day. So we’re heading in the right direction. 
I do intend to do another electricity challenge in 2008. I’m not sure when yet. But I do have some new toys to play with next time so stay tuned!
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That’s good stuff! I think I’m going to run an electricity challenge for myself early on in the new year - we’re pretty good about switching everything off when we’re not using it but there’s always room for improvement and it’ll be interesting to see some hard data.
Look forward to your challenge Cat. Are you going to blog about it? Yes, there is always room for improvement which is why I like to do various challenges and take an in depth look at what we’re do and how we can improve it.