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jeepinmatt

jeepinmatt

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I have the option to get my house Energy Star certified, but unless I'm missing something, it looks like the energy star rate is HiGHER than the standard residential electric rate:
Standard
https://www.duke-energy.com/_/media/pdfs/for-your-home/rates/electric-nc/ncschedulere.pdf?la=en
8.58¢->7.64¢/KWh
Vs
Energy Star
https://www.duke-energy.com/_/media/pdfs/for-your-home/rates/electric-nc/ncschedulees.pdf?la=en
9.18¢->8.70¢/KWh

Average usage so far is ~35KWh/day, so 1000KWh/month.

Is there some rebate I'm missing hiding somewhere?
 
Go SOLAR! Get off the grid!
 
a_kelley said:
You missed that the all electric rate for energy star is 6.89c/kwh after 350 in the winter.
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There we go! I apparently didn't have the patience to read that far.
 
So crunching some quick numbers I might save up to $32/year, or spend an additional $5/year.

Straight 1000KWh/month ES saves $5/year
Straight 800KWh/month ES adds $5/year
Straight 1500KWh/month ES saves $31/year
Heat/Cool needs estimate ES saves $7/year
Factoring in woodstove ES adds $1/year

Boring spreadsheet screenshot below. These numbers are completely speculative based on 1 warm September that averaged 34KWh per day and my own BS-timate of what the monthly KWh needs will be throughout the year. I'm sure there are better calculators, but I think it will still work out about the same. Considering the ~$500 cost of getting the house Energy Star certified (and that's assuming it actually is...), it would take anywhere from never to 15 years to pay off.
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jeepinmatt said:
So crunching some quick numbers I might save up to $32/year, or spend an additional $5/year.

Straight 1000KWh/month ES saves $5/year
Straight 800KWh/month ES adds $5/year
Straight 1500KWh/month ES saves $31/year
Heat/Cool needs estimate ES saves $7/year
Factoring in woodstove ES adds $1/year

Boring spreadsheet screenshot below. These numbers are completely speculative based on 1 warm September that averaged 34KWh per day and my own BS-timate of what the monthly KWh needs will be throughout the year. I'm sure there are better calculators, but I think it will still work out about the same. Considering the ~$500 cost of getting the house Energy Star certified (and that's assuming it actually is...), it would take anywhere from never to 15 years to pay off.
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But... it's the right thing for the environment....
 
Lankford said:
Just wait til @CasterTroy sees a monitor contest. His office looks like hes in a flight simulator.
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My dream is to have a wall of monitors, clicking off real time production rates. My last gig I had a 'stock ticker' type set up, but just gave me hour by hour units/hr by line. I want analytics and graphs and cameras damn near by person.
 
jeepinmatt said:
I used to think multiple monitors was neat until I got this 36" curved monitor. Switching and moving stuff is much more fluid.

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For whatever reason, I can't cross that threshold. When I am on a 70" monitor, I feel like I'm computering for the first time and get pissed off trying to toggle between files. Probably from a life time of compartmentalizing and being anal (not the good kind) on screen formatting/placement.
 
Amateurs....

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42" TV FTW
 
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yall some neat desk mofos yall know that
 
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