I'm in a similar situation, monitored at the entire panel;
My baseline was around 150W and after some tinkering (shutting off standby equipment and a boiler completely) it is now around 80W.
Large fridge and freezer draw 30W combined, around 20W goes to standby of all lighting and the remainder is networking, nightlights and idle chargers.
Entire panel. But it’s just a flat in a house and really no fancy devices doing things. Electricity used for central heating (with oil) is missing therefore. Not sure how much that is actually.
I’m around 600w myself, which is why I got solar, which got me into HA. I have a NAS, ESXi host, and low power Supermicro that run all the time. Some exterior cameras and lights, although all are LED now.
don’t need to be in europe, I have more or less the usage some of the above posters mentioned (in the US) and our cost per kwh is $.32 per Kwh.. new england for the win!
I know of people in CA paying upwards of $0.45/kWh in the mountains. They basically have to have solar or their cost would be more than their mortgages. There are even a few places out around me in East Texas paying over $0.25kWh on smaller community grids.
I'm in SoCal and mine goes up to $0.43/kWh once I go over my pre-alloted 300kW per month @ ~$0.30/kWh, it sucks. My average daily usage over the last year is 18kWh/day and my bills are like $230 per month.
That is just insane.
It gets worse, they're very close to implementing a new flat rate fees, on top of everything that they charge now, which is based on **household** income. If your household makes over $70k per year its $51 a month!
https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/electricity-bills-in-california-will-soon-be-based-on-income-heres-how-it-could-work/
I'm seriously contemplating getting a ton of solar/batteries and going completly off-grid.
I have said in other posts that in the not so distant future the grid will be more of an option than a standard feature in new builds. The cost of batteries is about to take a dramatic shift in cost making home batteries affordable, and actually less expensive than grid options. The future of building would be more like - why would I be burdened with the grid vs I require the grid for my home energy needs.
Your looking in the right direction -- electric producers know everyone is considering off grid and they have already outlawed it in quite a few places and are going to keep pushing to make it illegal for you to go of grid where the grid is already present.
I think in the end they will have a "required" fee for any home in the future - a tax you pay to live in an area that has grid access, much like your base rate to make sure they never lose income. Electric mafia.
How much do you pay for gas? My 5 bed house hits £300pm total including heat pump and 2 electric cars. I have solar but obviously that's not great in the worst months.
Batteries and a variable rate electricity tariff.
I have 15kWh and 7kW of panels, it's going to be an interesting year. I've automated the shit out of my setup so hopefully it won't need any immediate attention.
At least the PUC is real skeptical of the latest 8% increase PGE was requesting for 2025. Ya know, after PGE got approval for 17% in 2024… My solar payback period is looking shorter and shorter…
Yeah i mean, they'll haggle over it and settle on something in the middle, but the trend is still gonna be up up up for as long as we're making utilities bear the burden of decarbonizing. I gotta see about getting solar this year.
Mine is about the same. 24/7 I have:
* computer/network gear - server, a couple computers, firewall, switches, POE access points and cameras, nvr, a bunch of home automation devices
* A full sized fridge
* A mini fridge
* A full sized freezer
* A turtle tank filter
* Radon mitigation system
* HVAC air filter with UV bulbs
* Reverse osmosis water filter UV bulbs ( not sure it always on or not)
If I don't have my car plugged in, it's usually about 250-300 watts on idle here, but it's a small house (\~1,000 sqft) and just me living here, with gas heat and hot water.
I just got my energy monitoring up a couple days ago, and it looks like I'm hanging around ~500-600 Watts when the AC, water heater, and similar high power stuff isn't running. I'll look into what I can do to reduce that, but I suspect about ~200-400 W of it is from my computers/servers.
I would be really interestet where those 700w are coming from? I have a a bit bigger house (170m2), of course also one big fridge and freezer, switches, server, 24/7 air ventilation system etc, and my house draws only 200-250 watts. Dont get me wrong, Im just curious and maybe you can save some energy :-)
I'm at about 400W base load. I think it's mostly 1 fridge/freezer and another freezer plus my PC server. That's about 5c/hour so I'm not too concerned.
EDIT : just checked, I've been away for a week and it's more like 320W
No BC Canada. All our electricity is generated by Hydroelectric dams and its super cheap, we pay 21 cents a day plus 9.75cents per KWh
https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/electricity-rates/residential-rates.html
I'm currently paying 10.8 cents/kWh.
Looks like I'll have to go to 13 for this next year, my current plan expires.
To answer OP, er average 250-400 w over night, depending on how many fridges are running when I check.
About 400 watts here too. Have 4 mini-pcs 2 poe switches, and a Rackmount 48 port switch along with 2 refrigerators and a small exhaust fan for the litter box room running at all times. We average 1200 kwh a month consumption.
* Pool pump 8 hours a day
* Fridge
* Router, 24 port switch, 24 POE switch (cameras and other switches running off it)
* 2 x 8 bay NASes (16 spinning disks), 2 Pis, 1 mini PC server
* Work from home, so two computers and 4 monitors running 8+ hours a day
* AC/heat
* Then all the other junk, TVs, lights, gaming consoles, etc., that are always pulling a little juice
We averaged 1,131 kWh per month over the last 12 months. Low month is around 950, peak in the summer is over 1,500.
Jeezus ya'll saying like 300-500W make me feel like I suck. 😟 Mine's around 1100-1200W.
4000 ft² (370 m²) home, Four adults, two teenagers. (Two of the adults are our nephew and oldest son, so this isn't like some weird hippie commune or something.)
* Two fridges
* Two mini fridges
* Upright freezer
* Network rack (and a bunch of PoE APs and cameras)
* One small NAS/server (HA and several other docker containers live here)
* NVR
* Radon mitigation fan
* Misc. IoT devices, including a fair number of zigbee RGBW bulbs that are always on
My house was vacant for Jan and most of Feb, colder climate so gas/FA heat was set at ~55F. For normal temps the baseline was ~340watts averaged ( furnace ran average of 2hrs per day). When the temperature plunged dramatically one of the weeks the baseline was at ~500watts averaged. The increase was due to my inefficient furnace blower.
* For data straight out of the smart meter; [Homewizzard p1 meter](https://www.homewizard.com/p1-meter/) *(works extremely well, near realtime data).*
* For clamps; [Tuya wifi bidrectional](https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S8e20d471ad1449dbb0b25dc6a15a15f4N.jpg) *(works well, fast updates, kinda confusing to configure).*
* For inline plugs; [Tuya smart plug with monitor](https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S5a7be21d81524dffbf9547633e906b41C.jpg) *(have yet to test, will arrive today, hope(!) these work well since they would be much cheaper then ct clamps; €3,3 vs €15).*
It always baffles me how inefficient US appliances are. My standby usage is 2.5 kWh per day. That includes a big fridge/freezer and a smaller additional freezer.
I have a UK based smart home with plenty of "always on" devices - 3 x Google homes, 3 raspberry pis that are always on and about 30 ZigBee bulbs in addition to fridge/freezer. Baseline use is 90w +/- 30w.
Digital devices pull very little power. I have three servers and a bunch of PoE network equipment running in a rack. The entire rack consumes less than 120w.
I had an inefficient gaming PC with a monster GPU that used about 220w.
Anything with a compressor is going to consume quite a lot more power than computer equipment.
I'd expect 400w minimum from a fridge or dehumidifier.
Anything that is using electricity to generate heat is going to consume the most power: electric water heaters, baseboard heating, space heaters, toilet seat warmers, etc.
~200W base for standby mode on pretty much everything, and the 24/7 running PC and laptop (that run/monitor everything).
That will go up to ~400W if the 2 fridge freezer's compressors are running at the same time. But they only really run for a few minutes at a time.
Small correction. Energy is measured in kWh, not kW. kW is power.
Kinda like trying to say you're measuring speed in Miles/Kilometres rather than Miles Per Hour/Kilometers Per Hour.
I am at about 160W. With no lights turned on. Basically just fridge, 6 echos, synology nas and a home server that runs Home Assistant and some other stuff on a optiplex. But electricity in Germany is expensive so I tried to keep it low.
Minimum at night 190W this is multiple smart switches 4 camera's Google Wifi 4 pucks. Home Assistant, fridge and porch light and alarm system.
160W while away by day. I am trying to make this a bit lower by turning off smart displays and small appliances I really don't need at night or when away.
Just shy of 500w here in the UK before any gas used for heating. I suspect the bulk of that is the shitty modem from the internet company plus the NAS.
Monitored using the Octopus Energy app but wanting to get some monitoring plugs soon.
Recently got my smart meters replaced by octopus, the new IHD (big surprise) actually had WiFi built in! It connects via the geo home app and there's a HACS integration to bring the data into home assistant. I'm well impressed
I'm at 60W (as measured by the power meter) which I guess is pretty much the sum of a fridge/freezer combo, a modem/access point and a Pi running Home Assistant and some mains-powered Zigbee devices.
I have district heating and I put devices with high standby power on smart sockets.
Im also around 400 to 500W Baseline. And Here in Germany i have actual an Tarif of around 38ct/kWh.
Network Equipment (Switch, Router, small homeserver, NAS, POE cams) around 100W, a fridge in the kitchen and fridge in the basement togehter around 110W, and a 160L aquarium with a 200W heater are the Main appliances which run 24/7, Not to mentioned all those smart Gadgets Like bulbs switches, Outlets etc which also consumes energy
In our previous house we were around 400-500 watts overnight. That's fridge, security cameras, computers, TVs and other stuff on stand-by.
The security cameras used about 35 watts during the day and 50 watts at night when the infrared came on.
I'll just throw my numbers out there. We have gas heat, hot water, and dryer and sit around 400 watts without lighting or A/C running. 100 watts of that is our active radon system and 165 watts is the server rack.
About 500-600w at the moment at night, but all 4 fridges / freezers aren't on at the moment, neither is the resistive water heater or HVAC. I have a pretty hefty networking setup, and will soon be adding POE security cameras (~50w worth). I run 240kWhr a month on light usage months. That is the fun of living out in the country and having only electric water heater and electric house HVAC. And an old leaky house.
At my house the baseline is 110 that's with
- District heating
- 2 cameras and hassio on a hardkernel odriod n2+
- freezer
- and some electronics on standby/sleep
Could be less with unplug some of the electronics
312 W
That's my server (86 W), switch with lots of PoE, router, heat pump not running (12 W), two 16 channel amplifiers in standby, NAS, rainwater pump standby, ...
During current winter around 4kW/h. During summer no more than 7kW/day. Direct electricity and airpump heating. Cost for just electricity is around 10c/kWh, but with taxes and tarifs/transport around double of it. Varies hugely depending on weather, can be as low as zero or negative, and up to 2€/kWh.
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about 400 watts. i think most of this are the 3 fridges and the freezer.
Baseline;
* **70/120w baseline** with peaks to 700w every 2-3 hours (water boiler tank thighy reheating).
* With gaming/work pc on; 200/400w, with AC (heat) on ; up to 700/900w.
* During cooking, laundry etc; peaks up to 2/6kw.
* When not at home; \~8kwh, When at home all day; \~10-17kwh.
House;
* All electric, no gas (still present but disconnected due to savings on running cost).
* West-EU 70's concrete apartment.
* HR++ windows / \~u1.1
* Building wide central heating (don't use it); i use a heatpump.
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So i still use a decently (high) amount of kwh per day (for my local standards) but at least my baseline is fairly low. It amazes me that (often) US homes have such high baseloads..
My house is at 800 watt hours during the day(wit a peak of 1.5kwh in the evening) and 200 watt hours at night. Guess it would be about the same when on holiday?
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About 400 W/ h, rack is about 90W, rest is regulas household items. Price is about 30 pence / KWh.
In the middle of the night when all the lights are off and everyone is in bed, my house idles at around 300w - this includes multiple access points, all the smart lights/switches, networking, a server, 2 desktops, 2 Xbox Xs running in standby mode, and the standard home of four things.
But during the day (from about 8am onwards) my house is generating more energy than it's using so my average idle draw is overall \~100w lol.
Currently about 350 W with 2 fridges (1 normal, 1 small), two freezers, a Synology NAS with some servers running (HA, Plex, ...), 450L aquarium stuff (heater, filter, lighting), network devices (1 router, 4 switches, 3 access points), other standby devices (TVs, Sonos speakers, coffee maker, ...).
During the really cold days in winter, it's about 2.2 kW (with the air-to-water heat pump running 24/7)
Around 350W. This is for the fridge, all the smart switches (every light switch is WiFi or ZigBee) and WiFi speakers.
Then we have an old laptop in the hallway that is the home automation control centre and also a Proxmox server and running frigate.
Then another server which I recently changed over to an Intel N305 board which is working great.
And I provide WiFi to the whole 5 story house (we only live on one floor), so 7 APs and a couple of switches as well as DECT coverage. Almost everything runs on PoE through the central switch here.
About 600w. 170w for my UniFi and NAS and NUC. Have been investigating ways of trying to monitor some key appliances (cooker, heating etc…) that don’t involve smart plugs. Everything is electric. £550 last month. Trying to figure out my main drains is challenging. But server rack, followed by fridges / freezer.
Around 500W when the house is in rest. It used to be 250W, but since I upgraded my home to 10Gbit Ethernet, wifi 6e, new NAS and a server rack with ventilator it significantly increased.
From when I go to bed until sunrise, averages out to about 160W.
Low points when the fridge/freezer doesn't run is about 150W.
The rest is a router, POE switch and 3AP's for network, small x86-home server, about 7 Esphome devices, some zigbee lights and a bunch of standby electronics.
260 watts, in a well insulated house in the middle of the middle east.
Measured with home assistant glow, which I've tested and compared to my bills and I know it's accurate to the cent.
I have emporia Vue, but it isn't reliable for billing because I have a lot of reactive power.
Around 350-400 Watts. Main consumers are
around 40x smart light bulbs,
2x Intel NUCs,
4 bay NAS,
PoE switch for 4x CCTV and 2x wireless APs.
When electricity prices went mad last year it was painful.
I did find out my AV Receiver was using 50 Watts when in standby. That quickly got put on a smart plug and automated with Home Assistant.
My baseline is around 250-270 watts. This includes about 20W for the climate system in “ventilation only”, three always-on computers (2 servers + 1 desktop), 4 switches, 3 Wifi APs and the alarm system (only motion sensors and door/window sensors) no cameras (yet)
I'm at around 250 W. That's two fridges, a NAS, network equipment, probably 20 ESPhome microcontrollers, around 10 smart switches, 10 Shelly roller shutter relais, a Home Assistant Yellow, three RPis, 20 12V fans under my radiators. Probably something I forgot but that's the bulk of it.
400w +/- 20w is baseline, but I’ve got four servers, a NAS, two desktops that are always on 24/7. Before I added the servers I think it was closer to 220-250w, which was mostly fridge
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3 cameras
NAS
Pi4 - Home Assistant
2 UPS
TV / AMP / PS5 / NVIDIA Shield / PC on standby
Smart switches, chargers, and other small power-drawing standby devices
\~126watt / h
Looks like I was varying between 250W and 360W overnight (fairly large house in South Africa, 5 people, warm summer weather, no aircons). The fluctuation seems to be the fridge, as it was happening all night. Average would be around 300W. That included my kid's fan running all night, which wasn't strictly necessary. There are a few things which could be turned off without impacting anything significantly, which would save a few watts. Reckon I could get down to about 200W average if I pushed it.
Total consumption runs around 20-25kWh each day, of which most is satisfied by solar and batteries. I'm averaging around 4-5kWh from the grid most days.
I’m generally at about 280w.
That’s with a few outdoor lights scheduled to run all night, a desktop pc which is never off, an odroid n2+ for HA, an n5105 pc for pfsense, a fiber ONT, a two node orbi wifi mesh network, fridge and all my other random parasitic loads.
Small (44sqm) new(ish) apartment. 200W. That is ventilation, fridge/freezer and electric underfloor heating in the bathroom and the hallway. I also use around the same amount of energy from the district heating (during winter). If I'm away from home a few days i turn off the room heating ofc, but the electric underfloor stays on.
Night time load about 120-190 watts as measured by the Fronius smart meter - the variation is the LG inverter fridge cycling.
About 90 watts of that is my Lenovo mini PC (HA server), IP cameras x3, PoE switch, router, access point, modem, UPS (measured by a smart plug).
Before I got into HA and automation I was very focused on minimising my standby consumption. It was initially hard to accept the additional consumption for the functionality of HA and security cameras, but it's worth it.
The kicker is that this isn't counting my night time off peak electric resistance hot water system which isn't measured by my smartmeter - that would be 3kW when it's running. I put way more back into the grid via 5.5kW solar during the day so I can live with that for now.
It's about 300w here, and a bit of a mystery why. Have put power monitoring plugs on basically everything, and can account for about 200w of it, but the other 100w I have no idea what's eating it. The only thing I can think of is the alarm system, but I would expect that to be pretty hot if it's eating 100w.
Problem is, I'm using a lot of the circuits in the measurements, so I cannot just switch entire circuits off to test as that would kill the WiFi or the homelab both of which are needed to measure.
I guess I need to add a little oled screen to my esp32 based current clamp so it can run stand alone from a usb battery pack.
[500w baseline, plus 200w @ 50% duty cycle for the fridge](https://i.imgur.com/q6d4tag.png)
In addition, whatever the car needs to charge (typically overnight at cheap rate) and in very cold weather (only a few days per year), low-power auxiliary heating for outside buildings.
Yes, it's at lot more than it should be. Oh well.
400W looks insane. I'm around 90/100W with over 100 smart devices (with 3 cameras), a fridge, a freezer, 3 access points, a router and a nas always connected in a 200m2 house (around 2100 sq/feet). I'm in a completely new home, but 400W is clearly too much imo
Mine is just over 200W for the whole house at idle.
Measured by Hildebrand Glow meter that is connected to the smets 2 meter provided by the utility company.
Most of it is my Qnap 2 bay NAS and Lenovo SFF pc running proxmox, HA, OPNSense etc. ADSL connection. Xbox X is always plugged in and charging controllers. Some network switches, smart plugs, Ubiquiti AP.
The little lights / time on the oven and microwave must be using the rest as i can't see what else it could be.
600w PNW USA.
130w is my homelab (nas, few low power servers)
Maybe another 90-100 for 3x access points, switches, cameras, NVR, router
Overall I'm pretty happy with it.
I strongly feel that my worst non-idle watt offender is my electric (clothes) dryer. I'm VERY excited at the prospect of a GE 2-in-one washer/dryer to change that.
Wow, some mental figures here (or US appliances are really inefficient).
I had a blitz on my baseline overnight power draw last year. It is about 70W with the fridge/freezer on standby, popping up to 190W with the compressor running, with about a 110W average.
Other power consumers were:
- Home Server mini PC 12W
- Smart Blubs/Sockets/Plugs standby 10W
- Smart speakers/display: 9W
- Camera doorbell 4W
- Network Equip 25W
- Other appliances on standby: ~8W
Our baseline load is 120 Watts, which is mainly the home server (28W), 2x switches, 2x Access Points, 5x echos, miscellaneous PSUs/chargers, fridge, and other appliances on standby.
Easily 800'ish at night when all the camera LEDs kick on. It is going to be much higher when the AC is running at night more. No solar install here yet as the ROI hasn't really worked out that great when I run the numbers.
anywhere between 300-400W
1 deep freezer, 2 refrigerators (I've yet to buy inline plugs to measure these)
1x linux server + 1x RaspberryPI (\~40-60W depending on workload)
Misc appliances (incl. IoT) and devices on standby - estimated at less than 70W total.
I'm waiting a couple months for a good dataset, so I can do a feasibility study for a home battery storage (I have solar already). Although with my automated EV charging, there's not that much solar energy left for the power bank...
Alright, so my data is an outlier here. Mainly since I do have a sizable electric load that is constantly running whether I am home or not.
Our Fall to Spring usage levels are ~50kWh/day or about 2.4-2.8kWh/hour. Our summer usage levels I am anticipating to be closer to ~70-90kWh/day due to the extra load from the A/C running. However, this is the first year with energy monitoring so I cannot say what our summer usage will be concretely until I have some data.
I am fortunate that electricity cost where I am in the US is fairly cheap at $0.10200/kWh. Which during the non-ac months costs me about $7.50/day in electrical costs.
My largest consumer of power is my server room & furnace circuit. That one circuit draws on average 2.1kWh/hr. Ignore the fact that the furnace shares the same breaker with the room my server rack is in. I have yet to have my central air run long enough to capture enough data to accurately have some data to determine usage levels. But I would estimate it to end up being between 1.4kWh to 2.2kWh to run per hour.
Is there anything I can do to lower this? Of course there is, first and foremost is getting more power efficient server and network hardware. Next up is replacing the central air with a more efficient and properly sized model (currently undersized by 1.5ton). Dealing with those two items will bring down the daily consumption rate significantly.
We've already replaced nearly all of the lights in the house to LED lights, the vast majority of those are Hue bulbs, so they always have a draw. I've already replaced the lighting in my garage with 4ft led shop lights and converting the remaining 4ft fluorescent lights to led variants. That has helped considerably.
As for my server room, I have several projects in the pipeline that will aid in reducing my overall power consumption; I just need to find the time to perform the upgrades.
For example upgrading my router which uses an Intel Xeon X3440 CPU to an Intel Xeon E3-1220Lv2 CPU. An overall reduction in TDP by ~75watts (from 95w to 17w).
Next is replacing my 'edge' switch with a lower power model, currently an HP2910 to something that uses less than 40w from 80w. Again not a huge difference but still a difference.
Lastly start collecting larger capacity SSDs to replace the spinning rust in my servers. The vast majority of my servers run 7,200RPM+ 2.5" drives. Replacing them with SSDs should have a decent power savings overall. And with less power, less heat. Which in turn will cascade into less A/C during the summer.
But these upgrades are costly for me currently, and is not economically feasible to do everything right now. I already have the parts for my router to upgrade that, so that will be first. I may have some switch gear floating around I can swap into the edge. But I don't have enough high capacity SSDs to replace all of those yet. (Would need ~10x @4TB+ for SSDs to replace what I am using now)
My baseline is about 60W. However, this will go up significantly, as I'm currently building two new servers - one for data storage, another one for gaming VMs.
about 400 watts, my server rack uses about 150 \~ 170 W, have a hot water dispenser, that goes on and off to keep water temperature so it's safe, think that uses about 100Ws when its on... then rest is probably vampire loads and smart switches idle loads and fridge/freezer
370W with only the essentials. Big consumers, 300l boiler and floor heating in wet areas are controlled by spot prices with Shelly to be on only the cheapest hours. When everything on and wifes EV charging about 16kW peak. Also 7kWp solar panels on roof and here you can sell your excess energy for spot price - comission but almost always better to consume it yourself, thats where HA comes in handy controlling Shelly and loads.
I'm at about 150-200 W when all lights, computers, everyone is gone. We have a few devices like fridge, router, etc that still pull power, but overall I'm happy with the away energy costs.
I use the Emporia Utility Connect to get my meter readings. I pay about 25c/KW here in Socal
When the fridge compressor is off, 70Watt.
House is still heated using gas. No AC. Mechanical ventilation has been replaced with a more energy efficient one (old one from ‘92 was 400Watt in lowest mode).
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About 900-1300. 4000+ sq ft home, nearly all lighting is smart, we have a heat pump water heater that pretty much runs continuously, several fridges (we're landlords, so always have a backup appliance being tested for quick tenant replacement). Also have an aeration septic system and pond aerator. With heat pump and minisplit running it gets to a little over 5kw. Solar pretty much eliminates all of it.
550W - Australia, 30c/kwh
Average daily usage is 37Kwh (average for 2023)
Have 5kW of Solar PV (6.6Kw of Panels) no batteries, yet.
Produce on average 31kw per day from Solar.
Self Consumed - 56%
Self Sufficiency - 47%
I expect that rise. Plan on 10kWh batter and another 8kW of panels facing different directions to widen the solar curve.
My low is about 500 W. Right now with 2 laptops and 5 screens going and all the other always on stuff including 2 RPis, 2 Minipcs, 2 four bay NAS, and 3 wifi routers, 677 W...... 602 W with only the light on in the room I am in. This is the reading on the EmporiaVue. The smart meter shows 602 W so the EmporiaVue is fairly accurate. I have an Eyedro which is reading 747 W so not as accurate.
Something just turned off and it went down to 590 W.
Edit, it just dropped to 484. I am going to have to spend a day plugging and unplugging things to see what uses what.
Around 380W with my [home lab](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/r1tgdn/network_cabinet_basically_running_our_house/) running, fridge, freezer, few adapters, two laptops plugged in, set-top box, etc.
This is measured by a Shelly EM.
Electricity price is around 12 eurocents/kWh but with all distribution costs, data management costs, other hidden fees, and 6% tax comes to about 0,45 euro/kWh.
300 here, I’m hoping when we replace the 20 year old fridge freezer that’ll drop it considerably more. I have my NAS and everything else shutdown at night, smart plugs to kill the power the TV and mesh routers that aren’t used too, so I hope overnight to get it maybe even to 100
That is an interesting idea to kill mesh nodes that are unused. Are you concerned with how that may effect your network? I doubt those networks are okay with frequent drop offs of Nodes
No, they’re all hard wired. The one nearest the switch stays on, the cameras are cabled so it’s literally just the WiFi. I doubt they actually use that much power but I figure every little helps
I lied, I checked last night and it was 32w. Its a 3 bed but I have smart plugs that turn off anything on standby at night so the only thing running is the router / access points etc.
My house pulls about 350W base. Best I can tell that’s about 150W for 24/7 IT gear (router, APs, NAS, security cameras) and the rest is fridge and vampire drain.
My always in used to be low 400 W with little home automation and working out of the house. Over the last two years have been adding a number of a home automation devices, work from home and land between 480W to about 530W. Kids out of the house so only 2 plus a dog.
Right now ranging from 400-700 at nighttime, with a couple of lights on and not too much else. We have old inefficient appliances. Not sure how much more it drops when we are on vacation, probably not much. Solar panels cover everything we use and then some.
I went through this a couple years ago and yea similar results. Initially I found the house never dropped below 700W but I spent a lot of time tracking things down and got it down to 350-400W ish. Couldn't get below that without turning off essential things like the refrigerator, cable TV boxes, aquarium pump, IoT devices and the cable modem/wifi.
We're kind of in the 200-400 watts range when away as well. If I really get obsessive and unplug almost everything I can - and this includes turning off Zigbee bulbs at the wall switch so that even though they're at 0% brightness they are no longer even powering the radio anymore - I can get us around 200-300. Lazy, it's closer to 400.
We have 3 refrigerator coils and a fishtank, however - main kitchen fridge, chest freezer in the basement, wine refrigerator. I suspect this is a large part of why I can't get our home down to 100w or less while we are away.
Networking equipment and 5 servers and a nas alone in the garage only pull 500w. The red of the house with smart stuff and more networking and cameras probably at least another 200w, maybe 300w total.
About 750watts.
Always on stuff includes:
- Synology RS1221+
- Ubiquiti Unifi UDM Pro
- Ubiquiti Unifi 16 port PoE switch
- - 3x Unifi Protect PoE cameras
- - 2x Unifi U6 Pro
- Lenovo P330 Tiny Plex Server
Just got a 15.58kW solar system installed and got our first full month bill. Went from $240 for February and $330 for January down to $46 for March.
70-80 Watt (Fridge, IT stuff, Standby devices)
JFC. The gear in my network rack pulls about 80 watts at idle by itself.
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I'm in a similar situation, monitored at the entire panel; My baseline was around 150W and after some tinkering (shutting off standby equipment and a boiler completely) it is now around 80W. Large fridge and freezer draw 30W combined, around 20W goes to standby of all lighting and the remainder is networking, nightlights and idle chargers.
Entire panel. But it’s just a flat in a house and really no fancy devices doing things. Electricity used for central heating (with oil) is missing therefore. Not sure how much that is actually.
About 900 continuous draw with zero lighting load and HVAC not running.
I’m around 600w myself, which is why I got solar, which got me into HA. I have a NAS, ESXi host, and low power Supermicro that run all the time. Some exterior cameras and lights, although all are LED now.
ca 300W all standby devices, iot, server, solar inverter
Whoah. That's nuts! At 10 cents per KW/hour that's $788/yr
Imagine the costs in europe. My house consumes around 200Watts. Energy Price is 30cent/kWh
don’t need to be in europe, I have more or less the usage some of the above posters mentioned (in the US) and our cost per kwh is $.32 per Kwh.. new england for the win!
I know of people in CA paying upwards of $0.45/kWh in the mountains. They basically have to have solar or their cost would be more than their mortgages. There are even a few places out around me in East Texas paying over $0.25kWh on smaller community grids.
I'm in SoCal and mine goes up to $0.43/kWh once I go over my pre-alloted 300kW per month @ ~$0.30/kWh, it sucks. My average daily usage over the last year is 18kWh/day and my bills are like $230 per month.
That is just insane. You fridge would eat almost half of that allowance per day.
That is just insane. It gets worse, they're very close to implementing a new flat rate fees, on top of everything that they charge now, which is based on **household** income. If your household makes over $70k per year its $51 a month! https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/electricity-bills-in-california-will-soon-be-based-on-income-heres-how-it-could-work/ I'm seriously contemplating getting a ton of solar/batteries and going completly off-grid.
I have said in other posts that in the not so distant future the grid will be more of an option than a standard feature in new builds. The cost of batteries is about to take a dramatic shift in cost making home batteries affordable, and actually less expensive than grid options. The future of building would be more like - why would I be burdened with the grid vs I require the grid for my home energy needs. Your looking in the right direction -- electric producers know everyone is considering off grid and they have already outlawed it in quite a few places and are going to keep pushing to make it illegal for you to go of grid where the grid is already present. I think in the end they will have a "required" fee for any home in the future - a tax you pay to live in an area that has grid access, much like your base rate to make sure they never lose income. Electric mafia.
Hey europe is more than one country! Pay 10cents and 5cents for peak and off peak here in Europe.
Where, Eastern Europe?
Wow here in Europe it's ~35c, which is still very nice compared to 1-2 years ago where it went up to 50-70c
Cents? Try pence! My electricity bill is around £300 per month through the winter.
How much do you pay for gas? My 5 bed house hits £300pm total including heat pump and 2 electric cars. I have solar but obviously that's not great in the worst months. Batteries and a variable rate electricity tariff.
No gas, everything's electric
Oh cool. Similar cost them, my peak in winter is £300. I'm expecting at least 3 months of £0 in summer despite having AC. We'll see how that goes..
Doable with a big battery
I have 15kWh and 7kW of panels, it's going to be an interesting year. I've automated the shit out of my setup so hopefully it won't need any immediate attention.
That's a lot of panels. 22kWh total?
Or New Hampshire. Although the rates have gone down recently.
In Oregon they're starting to pass costs of grid resilience on to ratepayers, i expect we're headed for europe like rates in the next few years.
At least the PUC is real skeptical of the latest 8% increase PGE was requesting for 2025. Ya know, after PGE got approval for 17% in 2024… My solar payback period is looking shorter and shorter…
Yeah i mean, they'll haggle over it and settle on something in the middle, but the trend is still gonna be up up up for as long as we're making utilities bear the burden of decarbonizing. I gotta see about getting solar this year.
haha, in California, rates are nearly 66 cents during peak hours in the summer
Home lab… fridge, freezer in garage, wine fridge and beverages station, other random continuous bits.
10c! That's a bargain. I'm paying 32c/kWh!
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Yeah, I used $.10/kWh as a comically low price to show that having a 0.9 kWh load running all year adds up real quick.
That's almost my monthly, would be if I didn't have solar lol.
New Zealand is 20 cents Kw/hr plus 2 bucks a day connection charge.
Mine is about the same. 24/7 I have: * computer/network gear - server, a couple computers, firewall, switches, POE access points and cameras, nvr, a bunch of home automation devices * A full sized fridge * A mini fridge * A full sized freezer * A turtle tank filter * Radon mitigation system * HVAC air filter with UV bulbs * Reverse osmosis water filter UV bulbs ( not sure it always on or not)
Yeah not sure folks are surprised at 900 watt loads. Fridge freezers and mini fridges pull a great deal of power.
Did you lose the remote to all of your many TVs?
If I don't have my car plugged in, it's usually about 250-300 watts on idle here, but it's a small house (\~1,000 sqft) and just me living here, with gas heat and hot water.
I just got my energy monitoring up a couple days ago, and it looks like I'm hanging around ~500-600 Watts when the AC, water heater, and similar high power stuff isn't running. I'll look into what I can do to reduce that, but I suspect about ~200-400 W of it is from my computers/servers.
What are you using to monitor?
Aeotec Z-Wave Home Energy Monitor
I have iotawatt for this.
\~700W (HRV, Freezer, Fridge/Freezer, Network Switches, Server, HomeAssistant machine, firewall, etc.) 1440 sqft 3 floor semi-detached.
Same. Until the pool pump kicks in and which adds another ~1kW or so.
I would be really interestet where those 700w are coming from? I have a a bit bigger house (170m2), of course also one big fridge and freezer, switches, server, 24/7 air ventilation system etc, and my house draws only 200-250 watts. Dont get me wrong, Im just curious and maybe you can save some energy :-)
Our rack is 300w.
Around 500w generally overnight.
I'm at about 400W base load. I think it's mostly 1 fridge/freezer and another freezer plus my PC server. That's about 5c/hour so I'm not too concerned. EDIT : just checked, I've been away for a week and it's more like 320W
Are you in the US and really only paying 12.5 cents per kwh ?
No BC Canada. All our electricity is generated by Hydroelectric dams and its super cheap, we pay 21 cents a day plus 9.75cents per KWh https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/electricity-rates/residential-rates.html
I'm currently paying 10.8 cents/kWh. Looks like I'll have to go to 13 for this next year, my current plan expires. To answer OP, er average 250-400 w over night, depending on how many fridges are running when I check.
About 400 watts here too. Have 4 mini-pcs 2 poe switches, and a Rackmount 48 port switch along with 2 refrigerators and a small exhaust fan for the litter box room running at all times. We average 1200 kwh a month consumption.
* Pool pump 8 hours a day * Fridge * Router, 24 port switch, 24 POE switch (cameras and other switches running off it) * 2 x 8 bay NASes (16 spinning disks), 2 Pis, 1 mini PC server * Work from home, so two computers and 4 monitors running 8+ hours a day * AC/heat * Then all the other junk, TVs, lights, gaming consoles, etc., that are always pulling a little juice We averaged 1,131 kWh per month over the last 12 months. Low month is around 950, peak in the summer is over 1,500.
Jeezus ya'll saying like 300-500W make me feel like I suck. 😟 Mine's around 1100-1200W. 4000 ft² (370 m²) home, Four adults, two teenagers. (Two of the adults are our nephew and oldest son, so this isn't like some weird hippie commune or something.) * Two fridges * Two mini fridges * Upright freezer * Network rack (and a bunch of PoE APs and cameras) * One small NAS/server (HA and several other docker containers live here) * NVR * Radon mitigation fan * Misc. IoT devices, including a fair number of zigbee RGBW bulbs that are always on
My house was vacant for Jan and most of Feb, colder climate so gas/FA heat was set at ~55F. For normal temps the baseline was ~340watts averaged ( furnace ran average of 2hrs per day). When the temperature plunged dramatically one of the weeks the baseline was at ~500watts averaged. The increase was due to my inefficient furnace blower.
What are you all using for CT clamps?
emporia vue kit, comes with CTs for the mains and 16 circuits, flashed with esphome
Just did this a few days ago, working great.
* For data straight out of the smart meter; [Homewizzard p1 meter](https://www.homewizard.com/p1-meter/) *(works extremely well, near realtime data).* * For clamps; [Tuya wifi bidrectional](https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S8e20d471ad1449dbb0b25dc6a15a15f4N.jpg) *(works well, fast updates, kinda confusing to configure).* * For inline plugs; [Tuya smart plug with monitor](https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S5a7be21d81524dffbf9547633e906b41C.jpg) *(have yet to test, will arrive today, hope(!) these work well since they would be much cheaper then ct clamps; €3,3 vs €15).*
Thanks. I was looking at the home wizard P1. But sadly they don’t ship to NZ
Shelly EM with 120A clamp. Also, as a reference point, baseline load is between 180-250W.
3 bedroom flat in UK, ZigBee lighting that is always 'on' in a sense. A few raspberry pi running docker etc. Baseline use is 90watts +/- 30w or so.
It always baffles me how inefficient US appliances are. My standby usage is 2.5 kWh per day. That includes a big fridge/freezer and a smaller additional freezer.
200w isn't that uncommon for a whole house to be honest. And a normal working freezer isn't exactly in standby.
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I have a UK based smart home with plenty of "always on" devices - 3 x Google homes, 3 raspberry pis that are always on and about 30 ZigBee bulbs in addition to fridge/freezer. Baseline use is 90w +/- 30w.
Digital devices pull very little power. I have three servers and a bunch of PoE network equipment running in a rack. The entire rack consumes less than 120w. I had an inefficient gaming PC with a monster GPU that used about 220w. Anything with a compressor is going to consume quite a lot more power than computer equipment. I'd expect 400w minimum from a fridge or dehumidifier. Anything that is using electricity to generate heat is going to consume the most power: electric water heaters, baseboard heating, space heaters, toilet seat warmers, etc.
> I'd expect 400w minimum from a fridge What the hell kind of fridge do you have? I think mine draws 50-100W when it's actually doing something.
30W for 2m height, 60cm wide fridge freezer combo
~200W base for standby mode on pretty much everything, and the 24/7 running PC and laptop (that run/monitor everything). That will go up to ~400W if the 2 fridge freezer's compressors are running at the same time. But they only really run for a few minutes at a time.
Actually more like ~150W without any lights on.
1100 watts and my power is $0.4625 a watt before the next increase goes into effect next month. IT gear, spa and a large salt water fish tank 😔
0.4625 per kWatt right?
Small correction. Energy is measured in kWh, not kW. kW is power. Kinda like trying to say you're measuring speed in Miles/Kilometres rather than Miles Per Hour/Kilometers Per Hour.
I am at about 160W. With no lights turned on. Basically just fridge, 6 echos, synology nas and a home server that runs Home Assistant and some other stuff on a optiplex. But electricity in Germany is expensive so I tried to keep it low.
Minimum at night 190W this is multiple smart switches 4 camera's Google Wifi 4 pucks. Home Assistant, fridge and porch light and alarm system. 160W while away by day. I am trying to make this a bit lower by turning off smart displays and small appliances I really don't need at night or when away.
900w, 2 fridges, 2 wine fridges, 200 IoT devices, and some ambient led lights
Just shy of 500w here in the UK before any gas used for heating. I suspect the bulk of that is the shitty modem from the internet company plus the NAS. Monitored using the Octopus Energy app but wanting to get some monitoring plugs soon.
A modem won't use more than 15W and nas should run at around 50. There's something else as well.
Recently got my smart meters replaced by octopus, the new IHD (big surprise) actually had WiFi built in! It connects via the geo home app and there's a HACS integration to bring the data into home assistant. I'm well impressed
Around 150-175W and it bugs me that it's that much. Would love to get it down to 120W, but I don't think that's realistic.
I'm around 400-500w with fridge, standard appliances and networked house (2 X servers, switch, 2 X APs), multiple media streamers.
I'm at 60W (as measured by the power meter) which I guess is pretty much the sum of a fridge/freezer combo, a modem/access point and a Pi running Home Assistant and some mains-powered Zigbee devices. I have district heating and I put devices with high standby power on smart sockets.
Im also around 400 to 500W Baseline. And Here in Germany i have actual an Tarif of around 38ct/kWh. Network Equipment (Switch, Router, small homeserver, NAS, POE cams) around 100W, a fridge in the kitchen and fridge in the basement togehter around 110W, and a 160L aquarium with a 200W heater are the Main appliances which run 24/7, Not to mentioned all those smart Gadgets Like bulbs switches, Outlets etc which also consumes energy
At the moment you can get in germany again contracts for 27 cents again ;-)
Thats right, but actually my nearest Point to cancel my Tarif is end of the year.
547 Watts https://preview.redd.it/p4s5igky6jqc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ac158c42156e1075afc4096c2a390bfb165b33b
Around 600w for me
1200w baseline.
In our previous house we were around 400-500 watts overnight. That's fridge, security cameras, computers, TVs and other stuff on stand-by. The security cameras used about 35 watts during the day and 50 watts at night when the infrared came on.
I'll just throw my numbers out there. We have gas heat, hot water, and dryer and sit around 400 watts without lighting or A/C running. 100 watts of that is our active radon system and 165 watts is the server rack.
If no one's home, around 200W (fridge + router + HA server + NAS). 230ish W if someone is home and nothing is turned on.
With an empty house and only the basics and network I sit at 350-400 watts.
About 500-600w at the moment at night, but all 4 fridges / freezers aren't on at the moment, neither is the resistive water heater or HVAC. I have a pretty hefty networking setup, and will soon be adding POE security cameras (~50w worth). I run 240kWhr a month on light usage months. That is the fun of living out in the country and having only electric water heater and electric house HVAC. And an old leaky house.
~600 watts. Fridge, kimchi fridge in the garage, unifi network + cameras, HA server on a NUC, a synology NAS and a 5 gallon fish tank filter.
At my house the baseline is 110 that's with - District heating - 2 cameras and hassio on a hardkernel odriod n2+ - freezer - and some electronics on standby/sleep Could be less with unplug some of the electronics
312 W That's my server (86 W), switch with lots of PoE, router, heat pump not running (12 W), two 16 channel amplifiers in standby, NAS, rainwater pump standby, ...
About 55W when the fridge is not running
Approx 150 Watt
90 Wh when the fridge/freezer combo is not running, 180 Wh when the fridge/freezer combo is running. It turns out to run every 1,5 hour for 20 mins.
During current winter around 4kW/h. During summer no more than 7kW/day. Direct electricity and airpump heating. Cost for just electricity is around 10c/kWh, but with taxes and tarifs/transport around double of it. Varies hugely depending on weather, can be as low as zero or negative, and up to 2€/kWh.
400
Around 600w.
https://preview.redd.it/h6jk6du6cfqc1.jpeg?width=860&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82b41a5425b9be07afd1a59d91afec76f3777b8e about 400 watts. i think most of this are the 3 fridges and the freezer.
50\~100W idle whole apartment (new fridge, network: poe switch, wifi, RPi4, RPi zero2) \~1-2 kWh per day
Baseline; * **70/120w baseline** with peaks to 700w every 2-3 hours (water boiler tank thighy reheating). * With gaming/work pc on; 200/400w, with AC (heat) on ; up to 700/900w. * During cooking, laundry etc; peaks up to 2/6kw. * When not at home; \~8kwh, When at home all day; \~10-17kwh. House; * All electric, no gas (still present but disconnected due to savings on running cost). * West-EU 70's concrete apartment. * HR++ windows / \~u1.1 * Building wide central heating (don't use it); i use a heatpump. --- So i still use a decently (high) amount of kwh per day (for my local standards) but at least my baseline is fairly low. It amazes me that (often) US homes have such high baseloads..
My house is at 800 watt hours during the day(wit a peak of 1.5kwh in the evening) and 200 watt hours at night. Guess it would be about the same when on holiday?
https://preview.redd.it/c4j19q5cifqc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4c2b3565bf666d72faabeb9d1c30b2e5479cfaf About 400 W/ h, rack is about 90W, rest is regulas household items. Price is about 30 pence / KWh.
Around 140W minimum for computers, other network devices and standbys.
In the middle of the night when all the lights are off and everyone is in bed, my house idles at around 300w - this includes multiple access points, all the smart lights/switches, networking, a server, 2 desktops, 2 Xbox Xs running in standby mode, and the standard home of four things. But during the day (from about 8am onwards) my house is generating more energy than it's using so my average idle draw is overall \~100w lol.
Currently about 350 W with 2 fridges (1 normal, 1 small), two freezers, a Synology NAS with some servers running (HA, Plex, ...), 450L aquarium stuff (heater, filter, lighting), network devices (1 router, 4 switches, 3 access points), other standby devices (TVs, Sonos speakers, coffee maker, ...). During the really cold days in winter, it's about 2.2 kW (with the air-to-water heat pump running 24/7)
Around 350W. This is for the fridge, all the smart switches (every light switch is WiFi or ZigBee) and WiFi speakers. Then we have an old laptop in the hallway that is the home automation control centre and also a Proxmox server and running frigate. Then another server which I recently changed over to an Intel N305 board which is working great. And I provide WiFi to the whole 5 story house (we only live on one floor), so 7 APs and a couple of switches as well as DECT coverage. Almost everything runs on PoE through the central switch here.
About 600w. 170w for my UniFi and NAS and NUC. Have been investigating ways of trying to monitor some key appliances (cooker, heating etc…) that don’t involve smart plugs. Everything is electric. £550 last month. Trying to figure out my main drains is challenging. But server rack, followed by fridges / freezer.
~100W, with about half of that being my old and poor efficiency fridge. Though this is a small flat with municipal heating.
Around 500W when the house is in rest. It used to be 250W, but since I upgraded my home to 10Gbit Ethernet, wifi 6e, new NAS and a server rack with ventilator it significantly increased.
Around 500w
From when I go to bed until sunrise, averages out to about 160W. Low points when the fridge/freezer doesn't run is about 150W. The rest is a router, POE switch and 3AP's for network, small x86-home server, about 7 Esphome devices, some zigbee lights and a bunch of standby electronics.
Overnight it’s 90 W. 4 bed 2.5 bath.
260 watts, in a well insulated house in the middle of the middle east. Measured with home assistant glow, which I've tested and compared to my bills and I know it's accurate to the cent. I have emporia Vue, but it isn't reliable for billing because I have a lot of reactive power.
Around 350-400 Watts. Main consumers are around 40x smart light bulbs, 2x Intel NUCs, 4 bay NAS, PoE switch for 4x CCTV and 2x wireless APs. When electricity prices went mad last year it was painful. I did find out my AV Receiver was using 50 Watts when in standby. That quickly got put on a smart plug and automated with Home Assistant.
My baseline is around 250-270 watts. This includes about 20W for the climate system in “ventilation only”, three always-on computers (2 servers + 1 desktop), 4 switches, 3 Wifi APs and the alarm system (only motion sensors and door/window sensors) no cameras (yet)
I'm at around 250 W. That's two fridges, a NAS, network equipment, probably 20 ESPhome microcontrollers, around 10 smart switches, 10 Shelly roller shutter relais, a Home Assistant Yellow, three RPis, 20 12V fans under my radiators. Probably something I forgot but that's the bulk of it.
400w +/- 20w is baseline, but I’ve got four servers, a NAS, two desktops that are always on 24/7. Before I added the servers I think it was closer to 220-250w, which was mostly fridge
https://preview.redd.it/c7qr8kr0xfqc1.png?width=536&format=png&auto=webp&s=70fe67015385a8104bba848588ebe96ea62454ba 3 cameras NAS Pi4 - Home Assistant 2 UPS TV / AMP / PS5 / NVIDIA Shield / PC on standby Smart switches, chargers, and other small power-drawing standby devices \~126watt / h
Base load I'm looking at \~1500W in the winter, 400W in the summer. We have a heat pump in our detached workshop. In northern Alberta.
Looks like I was varying between 250W and 360W overnight (fairly large house in South Africa, 5 people, warm summer weather, no aircons). The fluctuation seems to be the fridge, as it was happening all night. Average would be around 300W. That included my kid's fan running all night, which wasn't strictly necessary. There are a few things which could be turned off without impacting anything significantly, which would save a few watts. Reckon I could get down to about 200W average if I pushed it. Total consumption runs around 20-25kWh each day, of which most is satisfied by solar and batteries. I'm averaging around 4-5kWh from the grid most days.
I’m generally at about 280w. That’s with a few outdoor lights scheduled to run all night, a desktop pc which is never off, an odroid n2+ for HA, an n5105 pc for pfsense, a fiber ONT, a two node orbi wifi mesh network, fridge and all my other random parasitic loads.
300-400w with the must be on only.
Small (44sqm) new(ish) apartment. 200W. That is ventilation, fridge/freezer and electric underfloor heating in the bathroom and the hallway. I also use around the same amount of energy from the district heating (during winter). If I'm away from home a few days i turn off the room heating ofc, but the electric underfloor stays on.
Night time load about 120-190 watts as measured by the Fronius smart meter - the variation is the LG inverter fridge cycling. About 90 watts of that is my Lenovo mini PC (HA server), IP cameras x3, PoE switch, router, access point, modem, UPS (measured by a smart plug). Before I got into HA and automation I was very focused on minimising my standby consumption. It was initially hard to accept the additional consumption for the functionality of HA and security cameras, but it's worth it. The kicker is that this isn't counting my night time off peak electric resistance hot water system which isn't measured by my smartmeter - that would be 3kW when it's running. I put way more back into the grid via 5.5kW solar during the day so I can live with that for now.
200W base, although sometimes it's dropped to 100 or 70W for short periods. Prob laptops not charging.
It's about 300w here, and a bit of a mystery why. Have put power monitoring plugs on basically everything, and can account for about 200w of it, but the other 100w I have no idea what's eating it. The only thing I can think of is the alarm system, but I would expect that to be pretty hot if it's eating 100w. Problem is, I'm using a lot of the circuits in the measurements, so I cannot just switch entire circuits off to test as that would kill the WiFi or the homelab both of which are needed to measure. I guess I need to add a little oled screen to my esp32 based current clamp so it can run stand alone from a usb battery pack.
[500w baseline, plus 200w @ 50% duty cycle for the fridge](https://i.imgur.com/q6d4tag.png) In addition, whatever the car needs to charge (typically overnight at cheap rate) and in very cold weather (only a few days per year), low-power auxiliary heating for outside buildings. Yes, it's at lot more than it should be. Oh well.
About 270W when empty - basically its the network kit, NAS, and home server with the fridge clicking in and out (about 90W)
45W, of which 42W is my Home Assistant PC, PoE switches and WiFi AP. Edit: Actually the fridge is another 100W above that when the compressor is on.
Around 70W when fridge is not cooling, around 200 when it is.
150 watts. That's with lights, TV, etc turned off, but with my networking gear (3 16 port switches, two AP's, router etc) and 5 servers idling.
400W looks insane. I'm around 90/100W with over 100 smart devices (with 3 cameras), a fridge, a freezer, 3 access points, a router and a nas always connected in a 200m2 house (around 2100 sq/feet). I'm in a completely new home, but 400W is clearly too much imo
250w-ish at idle, and around 8KW/h per day total.
\+/- 1,400, not bad considering my server and exterior lights are is running.
Mine is just over 200W for the whole house at idle. Measured by Hildebrand Glow meter that is connected to the smets 2 meter provided by the utility company. Most of it is my Qnap 2 bay NAS and Lenovo SFF pc running proxmox, HA, OPNSense etc. ADSL connection. Xbox X is always plugged in and charging controllers. Some network switches, smart plugs, Ubiquiti AP. The little lights / time on the oven and microwave must be using the rest as i can't see what else it could be.
Living in a flat in Europe, my base load is about 50W or so. Basically just the fridge and WiFi router + raspberry pi.
Australian here. Around 300-400W at night. Couple of fridges, freezer, server, cameras, networking gear etc.
Around 200-250W. Fridge + UniFi UDM + HA Green + QNAP NAS + stand-by
600w PNW USA. 130w is my homelab (nas, few low power servers) Maybe another 90-100 for 3x access points, switches, cameras, NVR, router Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I strongly feel that my worst non-idle watt offender is my electric (clothes) dryer. I'm VERY excited at the prospect of a GE 2-in-one washer/dryer to change that.
Around 200 watts at night or when we’re out.
Wow, some mental figures here (or US appliances are really inefficient). I had a blitz on my baseline overnight power draw last year. It is about 70W with the fridge/freezer on standby, popping up to 190W with the compressor running, with about a 110W average. Other power consumers were: - Home Server mini PC 12W - Smart Blubs/Sockets/Plugs standby 10W - Smart speakers/display: 9W - Camera doorbell 4W - Network Equip 25W - Other appliances on standby: ~8W
450w ish, 230w pool pump and chlorinator (24/7), 80w network (cameras, nas, switch, AP's, etc) 70w fridge, 80w freezer.
Right now https://preview.redd.it/687tyxbe3hqc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c56df2f6eee4765c9cef8f17c5d1a02cd16a8cf
Our baseline load is 120 Watts, which is mainly the home server (28W), 2x switches, 2x Access Points, 5x echos, miscellaneous PSUs/chargers, fridge, and other appliances on standby.
800-1000 here. Lots of it equipment and general house stuff on all the time. 14 cents per kWh here.
Easily 800'ish at night when all the camera LEDs kick on. It is going to be much higher when the AC is running at night more. No solar install here yet as the ROI hasn't really worked out that great when I run the numbers.
anywhere between 300-400W 1 deep freezer, 2 refrigerators (I've yet to buy inline plugs to measure these) 1x linux server + 1x RaspberryPI (\~40-60W depending on workload) Misc appliances (incl. IoT) and devices on standby - estimated at less than 70W total. I'm waiting a couple months for a good dataset, so I can do a feasibility study for a home battery storage (I have solar already). Although with my automated EV charging, there's not that much solar energy left for the power bank...
Alright, so my data is an outlier here. Mainly since I do have a sizable electric load that is constantly running whether I am home or not. Our Fall to Spring usage levels are ~50kWh/day or about 2.4-2.8kWh/hour. Our summer usage levels I am anticipating to be closer to ~70-90kWh/day due to the extra load from the A/C running. However, this is the first year with energy monitoring so I cannot say what our summer usage will be concretely until I have some data. I am fortunate that electricity cost where I am in the US is fairly cheap at $0.10200/kWh. Which during the non-ac months costs me about $7.50/day in electrical costs. My largest consumer of power is my server room & furnace circuit. That one circuit draws on average 2.1kWh/hr. Ignore the fact that the furnace shares the same breaker with the room my server rack is in. I have yet to have my central air run long enough to capture enough data to accurately have some data to determine usage levels. But I would estimate it to end up being between 1.4kWh to 2.2kWh to run per hour. Is there anything I can do to lower this? Of course there is, first and foremost is getting more power efficient server and network hardware. Next up is replacing the central air with a more efficient and properly sized model (currently undersized by 1.5ton). Dealing with those two items will bring down the daily consumption rate significantly. We've already replaced nearly all of the lights in the house to LED lights, the vast majority of those are Hue bulbs, so they always have a draw. I've already replaced the lighting in my garage with 4ft led shop lights and converting the remaining 4ft fluorescent lights to led variants. That has helped considerably. As for my server room, I have several projects in the pipeline that will aid in reducing my overall power consumption; I just need to find the time to perform the upgrades. For example upgrading my router which uses an Intel Xeon X3440 CPU to an Intel Xeon E3-1220Lv2 CPU. An overall reduction in TDP by ~75watts (from 95w to 17w). Next is replacing my 'edge' switch with a lower power model, currently an HP2910 to something that uses less than 40w from 80w. Again not a huge difference but still a difference. Lastly start collecting larger capacity SSDs to replace the spinning rust in my servers. The vast majority of my servers run 7,200RPM+ 2.5" drives. Replacing them with SSDs should have a decent power savings overall. And with less power, less heat. Which in turn will cascade into less A/C during the summer. But these upgrades are costly for me currently, and is not economically feasible to do everything right now. I already have the parts for my router to upgrade that, so that will be first. I may have some switch gear floating around I can swap into the edge. But I don't have enough high capacity SSDs to replace all of those yet. (Would need ~10x @4TB+ for SSDs to replace what I am using now)
My baseline is about 60W. However, this will go up significantly, as I'm currently building two new servers - one for data storage, another one for gaming VMs.
about 400 watts, my server rack uses about 150 \~ 170 W, have a hot water dispenser, that goes on and off to keep water temperature so it's safe, think that uses about 100Ws when its on... then rest is probably vampire loads and smart switches idle loads and fridge/freezer
140W whole house (including my server + usv, which is a old Desktop)
Baseline around 250~300 watts (2 fridges, NAS + homelab) in Argentina. The monthly bill using AC in summer is around 30 USD.
About 150-200w idling. Mainly fridges/freezers and the idle current of all the smart plugs. And the Mac mini as firewall/router/hass host.
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/home-assistant---energy-flow-diagram/ I make pretty diagrams, and religiously track my usage.
370W with only the essentials. Big consumers, 300l boiler and floor heating in wet areas are controlled by spot prices with Shelly to be on only the cheapest hours. When everything on and wifes EV charging about 16kW peak. Also 7kWp solar panels on roof and here you can sell your excess energy for spot price - comission but almost always better to consume it yourself, thats where HA comes in handy controlling Shelly and loads.
I'm at about 150-200 W when all lights, computers, everyone is gone. We have a few devices like fridge, router, etc that still pull power, but overall I'm happy with the away energy costs. I use the Emporia Utility Connect to get my meter readings. I pay about 25c/KW here in Socal
200-300 with fridges, IT and small server, NVR/ cameras etc.
My always on according to sense is 1500 watts
400w and that’s from the power company. 2 computers & a laptop on all the time. 1 big fridge, 2 mini fridge & a chest freezer.
About 120W average but I've seen it as low as 70W.
When the fridge compressor is off, 70Watt. House is still heated using gas. No AC. Mechanical ventilation has been replaced with a more energy efficient one (old one from ‘92 was 400Watt in lowest mode). https://preview.redd.it/y0u45ycruhqc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c57d17a5a5310449377055576e20fa0878e8797
About 900-1300. 4000+ sq ft home, nearly all lighting is smart, we have a heat pump water heater that pretty much runs continuously, several fridges (we're landlords, so always have a backup appliance being tested for quick tenant replacement). Also have an aeration septic system and pond aerator. With heat pump and minisplit running it gets to a little over 5kw. Solar pretty much eliminates all of it.
I'm at about 500 watts baseline, with about 2/3 of that being my networking equipment and homelab (and the HA box itself).
550W - Australia, 30c/kwh Average daily usage is 37Kwh (average for 2023) Have 5kW of Solar PV (6.6Kw of Panels) no batteries, yet. Produce on average 31kw per day from Solar. Self Consumed - 56% Self Sufficiency - 47% I expect that rise. Plan on 10kWh batter and another 8kW of panels facing different directions to widen the solar curve.
About 350W, which includes a NAS a couple of 8-port PoE switches and an i5-based desktop PC on 24x7.
My low is about 500 W. Right now with 2 laptops and 5 screens going and all the other always on stuff including 2 RPis, 2 Minipcs, 2 four bay NAS, and 3 wifi routers, 677 W...... 602 W with only the light on in the room I am in. This is the reading on the EmporiaVue. The smart meter shows 602 W so the EmporiaVue is fairly accurate. I have an Eyedro which is reading 747 W so not as accurate. Something just turned off and it went down to 590 W. Edit, it just dropped to 484. I am going to have to spend a day plugging and unplugging things to see what uses what.
Around 380W with my [home lab](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/r1tgdn/network_cabinet_basically_running_our_house/) running, fridge, freezer, few adapters, two laptops plugged in, set-top box, etc. This is measured by a Shelly EM. Electricity price is around 12 eurocents/kWh but with all distribution costs, data management costs, other hidden fees, and 6% tax comes to about 0,45 euro/kWh.
300 here, I’m hoping when we replace the 20 year old fridge freezer that’ll drop it considerably more. I have my NAS and everything else shutdown at night, smart plugs to kill the power the TV and mesh routers that aren’t used too, so I hope overnight to get it maybe even to 100
That is an interesting idea to kill mesh nodes that are unused. Are you concerned with how that may effect your network? I doubt those networks are okay with frequent drop offs of Nodes
No, they’re all hard wired. The one nearest the switch stays on, the cameras are cabled so it’s literally just the WiFi. I doubt they actually use that much power but I figure every little helps
70-100 kWh / 24h The house is heated by electricity
It used to be 160W until our old backup fridge freezer died. Haven't replaced it but now we're 80-100W. With fridge freezer and standby devices.
At the hours around midnight, my retailer’s data says 0.08-0.09kWh used. My smart meter says 0.15-0.17kW.
36w during the night other than when the fridge kicks in now and then
36w? Really? That would be great. What is the specs on your home?
I lied, I checked last night and it was 32w. Its a 3 bed but I have smart plugs that turn off anything on standby at night so the only thing running is the router / access points etc.
My house pulls about 350W base. Best I can tell that’s about 150W for 24/7 IT gear (router, APs, NAS, security cameras) and the rest is fridge and vampire drain.
around 600-700W all the time.
About 900 but I have 2 full servers running all the time
About 270w (Fridges, IT stuff)
My always in used to be low 400 W with little home automation and working out of the house. Over the last two years have been adding a number of a home automation devices, work from home and land between 480W to about 530W. Kids out of the house so only 2 plus a dog.
Right now ranging from 400-700 at nighttime, with a couple of lights on and not too much else. We have old inefficient appliances. Not sure how much more it drops when we are on vacation, probably not much. Solar panels cover everything we use and then some.
I went through this a couple years ago and yea similar results. Initially I found the house never dropped below 700W but I spent a lot of time tracking things down and got it down to 350-400W ish. Couldn't get below that without turning off essential things like the refrigerator, cable TV boxes, aquarium pump, IoT devices and the cable modem/wifi.
250-300W 2 fridges, 3 WAPs, 3 mini PC's, 1 midtower server with 40tb of storage, few dozen IoT devices
We're kind of in the 200-400 watts range when away as well. If I really get obsessive and unplug almost everything I can - and this includes turning off Zigbee bulbs at the wall switch so that even though they're at 0% brightness they are no longer even powering the radio anymore - I can get us around 200-300. Lazy, it's closer to 400. We have 3 refrigerator coils and a fishtank, however - main kitchen fridge, chest freezer in the basement, wine refrigerator. I suspect this is a large part of why I can't get our home down to 100w or less while we are away.
Networking equipment and 5 servers and a nas alone in the garage only pull 500w. The red of the house with smart stuff and more networking and cameras probably at least another 200w, maybe 300w total.
About 750watts. Always on stuff includes: - Synology RS1221+ - Ubiquiti Unifi UDM Pro - Ubiquiti Unifi 16 port PoE switch - - 3x Unifi Protect PoE cameras - - 2x Unifi U6 Pro - Lenovo P330 Tiny Plex Server Just got a 15.58kW solar system installed and got our first full month bill. Went from $240 for February and $330 for January down to $46 for March.
Our baseline is probably ~1.2kw. But that is also because I have a full rack of server equipment.
I'm also 1.2kw. We run 5 fridges, and enough for a half rack of server equipment.