{"id":555,"date":"2007-04-10T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=555"},"modified":"2007-04-10T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:12:00","slug":"qkw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/04\/10\/qkw\/","title":{"rendered":"Q\/kWh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I feel as though our electric bill is very expensive and I’ve been meaning to ask what it costs everywhere else. Here’s how my bill breaks down:<\/p>\n

Fixed monthly fee<\/p>\n

Q10.79 = CDN$1.67 = US$1.41<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Monthly public lighting fee<\/p>\n

Q34.70 = CDN$5.38 = US$4.53<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first 100 kWh costs <\/p>\n

Q0.779\/kWh = CDN$0.121\/kWh = US$0.102\/kWh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every subsequent kWh costs <\/p>\n

Q1.662\/kWh = CDN$0.257\/kWh = US$0.217<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We use about 250kWh per month for a total of <\/p>\n

Q400 = CDN$62 = US$52<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We used to pay up to Q600-Q700 each month until we put in fluorescent bulbs in. <\/p>\n

Note also what is drawing power each month: refridgerator, microwave, toaster, showerhead*, computer and peripherals, TV\/DVD player, washing machine, 4 incandescent light bulbs, 8 fluorescent bulbs, and little stuff like phone chargers and spice grinder. More importantly, note what is not drawing power: clothes dryer (we don’t have one), stove (we use a gas stove), and house heaters (we stay cold).<\/p>\n

I guess I’m wondering if the price per kWh is high or if our usage is high or both. To give me an idea, what does it cost to power your house?<\/p>\n

*a heating element that heats the water as it passes through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel as though our electric bill is very expensive and I’ve been meaning to ask what it costs everywhere else. Here’s how my bill breaks down: Fixed monthly fee Q10.79 = CDN$1.67 = US$1.41 Monthly public lighting fee Q34.70 = CDN$5.38 = US$4.53 The first 100 kWh costs Q0.779\/kWh = CDN$0.121\/kWh = US$0.102\/kWh Every … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,16,26,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-555","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-canadiana","9":"category-finance","10":"category-guatemala","11":"category-science","12":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}