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| Thread ID: 127463 | 2012-10-23 23:00:00 | Genesis HomeIQ trial | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 1308374 | 2012-10-24 11:09:00 | It ain't - about 25c to 35c a load even at the power price I pay as a low user (but i don't put the clothes in straight from the washing machine). I measure everything with the Power Usage Meters I sell. My advice: use the clothes dryer if you need to. But try to hang the clothes outside to air a bit beforehand - any air-drying is better than none from power usage point of view (leaving aside other benefits). So you aren't doing what a lot do as I have been at places where you could almost ring water out of the clothes by hand and they have put them straight in the dryer. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1308375 | 2012-10-24 18:14:00 | The HomeIQ trial is part of a whole home energy management strategy the front end of which is called Tomorrow Street - where the aim is to get a very sophisticated [remote] control of power use and shift your usage patterns around when the time-of-use tariffs are offered into homes with smart meters (meters with 2-way communication basically). If you look at the list of power usage I posted, it would be interesting to see what appliances are actually able to be controlled effectively. | ellpow (16400) | ||
| 1308376 | 2012-10-24 18:40:00 | I already have a time-of-use tariff - I think that maybe was what prompted the invitation to the HomeIQ trial. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308377 | 2012-10-24 20:46:00 | I use my dryer once a week when I do my washing - the effect on my bill is basically nothing. If you use it for several hours a day then sure, but otherwise it's not really an issue. The problem with power managing a lot of devices is with those that lose their settings when powered off or need to be in standby to function properly. When I try to think of all the things that could be completely powered down to save money I mostly think of devices that use no power when off anyway (washing machine, Dryer, heatpump, stove, etc) pretty much everything else either needs power to function properly or is inconvenient when not powered. If someone shut off my microwave or TiVo or alarm clock etc I'd be pretty annoyed. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1308378 | 2012-10-24 21:03:00 | The problem with power managing a lot of devices is with those that lose their settings when powered off or need to be in standby to function properly. When I try to think of all the things that could be completely powered down to save money I mostly think of devices that use no power when off anyway (washing machine, Dryer, heatpump, stove, etc) pretty much everything else either needs power to function properly or is inconvenient when not powered. If someone shut off my microwave or TiVo or alarm clock etc I'd be pretty annoyed.I agree. I have doubts about the effectiveness of the system in actually reducing power costs for exactly that reason. You can identify particular devices and set them never to be turned off, but of course that reduces any efficiency gains. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308379 | 2012-10-24 21:40:00 | All the sites I have looked at the electric clothes dryer comes out near the top of the bunch basically matching the electric hot water heater. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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