ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Electrical energy consumption is the use of power or energy of a system by

making use of supply.
To calculate the consumption of an electrical appliance in kWh, you have to
take into account three factors:
1. the capacity of your electrical appliance, expressed in watt.
2. the number of hours that the appliance is in use in one day.
3. the number of days per year when the appliance is in use.

The calculation is as follows:

[number of hours used] x [number of days used] x ([capacity of appliance ex-
pressed in watt] / 1,000) = number of kWh

*The capacity should be divided by 1,000 to convert the number of watts into
the number of kilowatts. This finally gives us the number of kWh (kilowatt hours).

Example:
Calculation for the energy consumption of a radio alarm
A radio alarm is on all the time and therefore uses energy continuously.

Hours/day 24 hours
Days/year 365
Capacity of radio alarm 10 watts

Annual energy consumption of radio alarm: 24 x 365 x (10 watts / 1,000) = 87.6 kWh
 Exercises:
1. Compute the weekly energy consumption in a system that consumes 190 Watts
of power and works for 3 hrs a day.
2. A toy car consumes energy of 500 Watts of power if it works for 2 hrs a day using
it. Calculate the energy consumption a day.

HOW TO COMPUTE THE ELECTRICITY COST/BILL?

Electrical cost = energy/power consumption x energy rate/price

*Energy rate differs in region.
Example:
Monthly energy consumption of some devices is 250 kWh. Compute its electri-
cal cost if the region charges P11.25/kWh.
250 kwH x P11.25 = P 2,812.5 is the energy cost