Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I had the good fortune to have bought a fridge-freezer from Resales in the early 80s. It was a Danish item and it had the feature of being two separate items in the same cabinet, a small fridge and a large freezer, but each cooled by separate compressors. This meant that the temperature in each compartment could be properly controlled, independent of what was going on in the other. It also meant that I could, when my shopping strategy changed, turn off the freezer and yet leave the fridge running. This dropped the household total usage quite a bit. The freezer became a wine cellar.My fridge is the killer, big american thing, often hits 2kWh in a day.
Another big change around the same time was the introduction of the early CFL light bulbs. Cutting lighting and cooling consumption at that point cut the total electricity usage by around half.
Initial data from this morning's coffee boil suggests that I will get around twelve mugs per kWh.
Measured weekly, the average total consumption for the house and shed is around 4.5kWh/day, so there's probably not much fat left to trim off, but it's useful to know what is really going on, as with the unnecessary washing machine standby consumption above.