Higher electricity consumption these winter month...
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:16 pm
I received today my electricity bill for the month December and January and was a little bit surprised that my consumption of electricity was so much more than last year. (11.12.24-11.02.25)
Obviously, due to the very cold night temperatures since more than one week at my place I had to run the air-cons all day AND night in order to keep me warm enough. (my place is 440 m sea level and very exposed to wind and the house is very poor thermally insulated.)
Last year, the same two winter month, I had the air-cons for heating only on during the day, while at night I switched them off when I went to bed.
So the result was that my consumption of electricity went up from 380 kW/h to 700 kW/h also due to the fact that air-cons which are a type of heat pump, working less efficient in colder temperatures and consume more electricity.
However, thanks to my photo-voltaic modules on the roof together with the net-metering system my bill was only 12 Euros higher than last year.
So I am very glad that my PV system, installed by Green Air Paphos, years ago, produces still perfect electricity, I exported even more kW/h this period to the grid than last year with all these sunny days we had in January.
Max
Obviously, due to the very cold night temperatures since more than one week at my place I had to run the air-cons all day AND night in order to keep me warm enough. (my place is 440 m sea level and very exposed to wind and the house is very poor thermally insulated.)
Last year, the same two winter month, I had the air-cons for heating only on during the day, while at night I switched them off when I went to bed.
So the result was that my consumption of electricity went up from 380 kW/h to 700 kW/h also due to the fact that air-cons which are a type of heat pump, working less efficient in colder temperatures and consume more electricity.
However, thanks to my photo-voltaic modules on the roof together with the net-metering system my bill was only 12 Euros higher than last year.
So I am very glad that my PV system, installed by Green Air Paphos, years ago, produces still perfect electricity, I exported even more kW/h this period to the grid than last year with all these sunny days we had in January.
Max
