Kilowatt Accounting: Breaking Down Energy for Everything Behind the Meter in Your Home

This text is a complete and thorough guide to reducing your home electricity consumption by half! As a mechanical engineer with over 15 years of experience in the power generation industry, I am looking to share my knowledge with you in hopes that, together, we can tackle the existing climate crisis as well as have a little more money to spend. In the United States, residential power consumption accounts for approximately 20 percent of the total power generation of the country. If this can be cut in half, sizable impacts can be made to the average homeowner’s bills as well as to the blanket of green house gases that continues to thicken around our planet.
Would you like to save over 1000 dollars a year on electricity bills? Obviously that answer is yes. The problem is you likely don’t know where to start. This book will go far deeper than a home energy audit. It will cover how to calculate the energy usage for every item in your home with out using any expensive or special equipment. When you have this understanding, you’ll acquire a sixth sense of WHERE and HOW the energy is flowing, which will enable you to focus your habits and your home improvements on the areas which provide you the most bang for your buck. In addition to simply looking at KILOWATT hours, you will be equipped with the equivalent financial and environmental impacts for the power you’re consuming. For every KILOWATT hour you use, coal and natural gas had to be burned. I will provide you the amounts of coal and natural gas that were required to make your power. On top of that, I will also provide you the amounts of C02 generated from the burning of those fuels. You’ll likely be surprised to find out that the amount of C02 your home is accountable for, is comparable in weight to the amount of trash you put in your trashcan. Most of my readers recycle and take action to reduce their waste because they are educated about recycling and also well intentioned. With this text, your environmental intentions can continue to be pushed forward, with a side effect of saving money instead of spending it!
The backbone of this book is an audit of every single KILOWATT hour I consumed for one year. I took one years’ worth of electricity bills and determined the total number of KILOWATT hours I used. Then, I performed a blind study, where I calculated and summed the electricity usage for every device in my home and compared this with the actual usage. Again, this was done completely blind, meaning, I only used logic and reason when calculating the usage for each device. When I compared the calculated and actual metered values, they were within 8 percent. This is proof that the concepts I will explain to you, are accurate. Once you understand the concepts and simple math, you’ll be able to creatively apply solutions based on your specific situation, which I find far more impactful than simply recommending that everyone get a heat pump water heater. We will review habits, existing technologies, maintenance and so much more!
Join me, as we walk through every room in my home, looking at every outlet, every appliance, and in every cabinet at the devices that use the amazing luxury we call electricity.