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GE’s home appliance energy use tool

GE’s home appliance energy use tool GE Home Appliance Energy Use website snapshot
Alexander Richter 8 May 2010

A tool by General Electric translates kilowatt usage in an interactive residential energy use chart showing how much energy and money common appliances cost.

A recent article in one of my favorite blogs, lifehacker.com, caught my eye. The article refers to a tool on a website provided by General Eletrics.

It talks about “Translating the kilowatt usage on your power bill into real world application isn’t the easiest thing to do. This interactive residential energy use chart shows how much energy and money common appliances cost.”

Home Energy Appliance Use (GE)

It would be rather cool if this would exist for the different renewable energy types and the different elements of comparison of those.

GE’s “chart features 53 common items like air conditioners, blenders, toasters, stereo systems, vacuum cleaners, and more. To put the usage in more comprehensible terms you can set the chart to show you how much each appliance uses in watts, how expensive it is to run, how much in gasoline-equivalence it uses, or how much use you get out of it.”

Pretty cool. The site also mentions other tools that are more related to energy savings and residential cost of electricity, but still very useful.

“Visualize your power consumption via: WattzOnVampire Energy

Source: GE via lifehacker