sportpix

According to my bill, the electricity used cost 17.7, the service charge was 6.42 and the VAT was 7.6. Sounds like that fridge is working overtime ...

wellinever

my side by side fridge/freezer is 18 months old, and according to the details uses 1Kw in 24 hours. Leave on Holiday mode when away and uses virtually nowt, as it turns off the fridge part, leaving freezer only (but assumes that no one opens the door).

1Steve

What make and model is that? My Samsung uses about 0.050 kW/h so therefore about 1.2kW/day, it's only about 12 years old so not planning to change it and I cannot see any models that would run at the efficiency you are quoting? How do you measure the power consumption of yours? I get my figures from the solar control system which measures all of my production/consumption.


"If you will get different information from EDP later, please let me know."
I got a standard reply from EDP when I queried the cost of my kW/h from 1st January and it just said all tariffs were correctly applied without giving any details. So pretty much a waste of time querying EDP. I am happy it has not increased for now. Lets see what comes in April

Leo1

First thanks for the Info about EDP

Fridge:

Make Bosch, Model KIA18A75. Not shure about the model anymore. It is the only info i found now on a sticker inside.

I got the fridge second hand, but i informed myself before bying about the consumption. Bosch said: 0,3kwh in 24 Hours. So i bought it. Important to me was as well the fact, that the fridge is ready for a hot climate, as we have it here, down in Portugal. So check the climate classification of your fridge. Maybe it is not good for hot temperaturs and this might be a reason for overconsumption.

I have measured the consumption over a perid of several month with a meter, only connectet to the fridge, and in fact, the fridge needs a little bit more. But 0,35kwh in 24 hours is o.k.

1Steve

Well that seems to be quite a remarkable fridge you have there. The best Bosch I can find online for a 326L fridge quotes a consumption of 238 kW/year, I am not sure if that is for normal use accounting for opening and closing doors and loading fresh produce into the fridge. Pretty sure they are stating perfect running conditions so I would add about 100kW on to that to be more realistic. My fridge was bought in Spain so it is up to the job and my kitchen is cool all year round as it does not get any sun. So a 1.2kW/day is an acceptable power consumption and buying a 700 euro fridge to save approximately 20 euros on electricity a year does not make sense to me. If it ever fails to keep the beer cold it will get thrown on the skip though

Leo1

Yes, i agree. You are perfectly right.
So let me add, that my fridge is much smaller. (But still a bit oversized for a single household.) I got it for 20,-€. Came in from Germany, where it seems to be common that you have to buy something new all the time and then have a problem getting rid of the old stuff that is still good and perfectly fine.