How much would twelve 30-watt CFL lights cost?
Estimate $8 each, or $96 total. Have I saved the quoted $50 per month on my electric bill? No. I’ve saved $15.60 per month at a cost of $96. The investment will start paying for itself in about 7 months, assuming you replace 12 bulbs that you run 12 hours per day. How much electricity do household appliances use? Not as much as you think. Or, put another way, even those high-wattage devices (in my case the toaster oven, microwave, kitchen lights and humidifier) only use electricity when turned on. And when they’re turned on, the cost to me is still just pennies per hour. Even when I use my most electrically expensive device – the toaster oven – the electric cost is just $0.13 per hour. How much money does my appliance cost to operate? In order to find this answer, you need to know the following: 1) What does your electric company charge you per kilowatt hour? This information will be on your latest electric bill. The easiest way is to take your total bill amount and divide by the numbe
