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How Much Does it Cost to Light Christmas Lights?.
There seems to be a lot of concern about how much money other people are spending on electricity for their Christmas lights. I’m happy to report, it doesn’t cost much.
The price of electricity varies from place to place, and from time to time, but a typical price is 12¢ per kilowatt hour. That means that if you burn 1,000 watts for the span of one hour, you’ll pay 12¢.
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Only flaw in Rob’s analysis is that the doesn’t actually compute the total cost. How many hours on average plus how many days. At almost a dollar an hour for some of them, imagine a very very (unrealistically low) minimal 5 hour usage, at 20 days? That’s a hundred dollars right there.
Comment by cde — December 10, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
Fun survey, but I’d like to know how to get electricity in California for $0.12/kWh. My previous holiday lighting rig was about 500 watts. Since we are always bumping into tier 4 with PG&E, any additional juice tends to cost about $0.34/kWh.
That’s why I’ve gone to nearly all LED holiday lighting this year – including a big 40 pixel 36mm RGB strand from Adafruit!
Comment by Darrin — December 11, 2012 @ 3:14 pm