How to Calculate Energy Use of Home Appliances in Watts ( KWh ) - Power Consumption of Electronics

How to Calculate Power Consumption in Watts

I've shared SOLAR PANELS PRICE IN INDIA , if you want to use or install Solar Plant in your home , you must know " How much power is consumed by your appliances or How much power you need to generate through solar panels " ,

Below , the Table for electronic appliances with its energy consumption in watts is given , you may calculate according to your home needs or usage .

Energy Use of Home Appliances :

APPLIANCE	WATTAGE	APPLIANCE	WATTAGE
clock radio	10	coffee maker	900-1200
clothes washer	350-500	clothes dryer	1800-5000
dishwasher	1200-2400	ceiling fan	65-175
hair dryer	1200-1875	clothes iron	1000-1800
microwave	750-1100	refrigerator	1725
computer: CPU	120	VCR/DVD	17-21/20-25
Computer: Monitor	150	19" color television	110
stereo	400	water bed	120-380

1000 W (watts) is 1KW (kilowatt).

Tube Lights consumes about 35 - 40 Watts ,

Calculate Avg KiloWatt per hour : KWh

You may also know your Energy Consumption without any calculation from this link : Calculate Energy Consumption

With this you might calculated the Power that you need to produce from your Solar Panels , so the numer of panels and the capacity of the solar cells will be based on the home energy need .

While purchasing the solar panel - they will ask this parameter , How much Kwh you want to generate from your solar cells , so that time it may be useful .

In the next post , i will be sharing " How to Get Solar Panels and Complete Kits for Cheap Price " , till then You may share this article with your friends via Facebook , Twitter & Google + .

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Facebook Goes Green - Installs Solar Plants for Power and Shower

Facebook Goes Green
This is the latest trends have to adopt in this modern world,Following Google, IBM and other tech giants, Facebook also planned to go green by installing solar system on the roof top of its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Cogenra Solar is going to install the solar system, which will not only generate power, is also going to harvest the unused, radiated heat energy for shower.

Cogenra Installing Solar Plants On Facebook Headquarters

In general the solar cells were capable of converting only the 15-20% of the sunlight falling over them into power, radiating the rest of the solar power as waste heat. This heat produced is also a threatening factor for the life and efficiency of solar cells.

To overcome this heating problem and to harvest the unused heat energy, Cogenra Solar came up with this new solar system which they alread installed this new model at Sonama Winery. This new solar plant is going to heat the water for shower and some other purposes at Facebook headquarters besides generating electricity.

In this solar system, Cogenra solar engineers placed an array of solar cells over the fluid containing tubes. These tubes filled with a mixture of fluid glycol could absorb the unused heat and pass the heat to the water heating system. By harvesting the unused heat along with power (electricity) generation, these Solar plants can turn, upto the 75% of the solar energy falling over the cells into usable energy.

For now, Facebook is planned to build this solar plant over a single building (from nine buildings) rooftop as an experiment. If the system proved to be so efficient they planned to install more on their remaining campus. Also, Facebook seeing this as a smart investment over green energy.Via SFgate

We would be happy ,if some of the Indian giants also try this green energy system in their buildings as well as promoting this in rural areas,it would help to minimise the power requirement in small but yet its a good for societ.We all know India is in scarcity for resources to generate power to meet the requirements.

What would you like to say about this action from facebook ? Let me see your thoughts in comments.