My electricity mission

[lokii_37]

I'm going to be updating this as I reduce my usage. It getting to hard to try to remember all the things I do.

The first thing I did was drop my lighting down about 90 minutes. So the new light schedule is 30min actinic, 8 1/2hr full LED, then 30min actinic. I also reduced the FW lights 2hrs. This saves me 2.495kwh/day.

The next thing was to reduce the temp setting by 1.5F. It had been set to 80 to help with the night time swings from being in the garage. I did the same in the FW tank. According to Kens Killawatt the reef was using about 4.5kwh/day after I reduced the temp. I didn't measure before BOOOO!!! Me.

So far just by monitoring my meter over the last week I have reduced my usage by about 10kwh/day. That's 300kwh a month at tier 4 rates that's almost $90 buck a month.

 

[lokii_37]

In the next week or so I will put some rigid foam insulation in the garage door to help retain the heat.

Maybe by April or May I can be out of tier 4.

 

[lokii_37]

On a side not I just found out my coffee maker is costing me close to $20/month ouch. I could buy one of those fancy single cup brewers with the reusable filter and it would pay for it self in less then a year.

 

[ReeferItIs2]

My mother embedded this in me when i was a kid...if I'm not using it unplug it...you will see a difference in your bill bro