@fourtytwo42
I admire your efforts!
We use approx. 5300kWh / year, or a bit less than 15 kWh / day. We run a house, an office with a couple of computers and a server and my workshop on it. So all in all not too bad taking into account that all the living and the making of money is done here and no office buildings elsewhere need to be kept warm and lighted for us. My other excuse is that the solar panels on the roof generate 5400+ kWh / year so in principle all electricity we use is home-made, green and already paid-for and we do not have to be frugal with it.
But (and this is a big but) this only works because of the so-called 'salderingsregeling' in my country, which means that generated (and grid-delivered) kWh's cancel out kWh's we take from the grid 1:1. Which is quite unreasonable as in the summer during the day we generate a lot of energy that maybe nobody uses, while at night and in the winter a big, probably coal fired power station somewhere is making the energy we use then. For that luxury we do not pay a cent.
Good thing that this salderingsregeling will be moderated in a couple of years. This will be an incentive to save power. I only hope they'll invest the money I then give them in storage. Although more tarmac is more likely
@metrologist
Early 2016 I replaced the desktop (120W) with an Intel NUC. As long as you do not try to render Avatar on it it works perfectly. It runs webbrowsers, LibreOffice, Lightroom, Kicad, Eagle, Gimp etc. with 'twee vingers in z'n neus', as we say. And that while using <15W. Also replacing the 10 year old CCFL based monitor with an LED unit saved nearly 50 watts.
And I would trade you our gas bill anytime. We use approx. 2500m
3/year, at €0.57/m
3. For heating the house, the office and the workshop (85%) and hot water for showers etc (15%).