Last week we did our electrical meter reading for the yearly re-balancing of our electrical bill (sidebar: here in Germany we typically pay a monthly rate based on average past usage at that residence, and that rate is adjusted up or down yearly), and i was somewhat surprised to find that we had used only 1077 kwh for the previous 366 days (about 10 of which we were not at home), which meant that we got a refund of very nearly half of what we'd paid in during the previous year.<p>1077 kwh for a year seems somewhat low to me, and i know it's low for the US'ians in the crowd (most of which who have to deal with air conditioning costs), which has made me curious about average Geekdom power usage, in particular among folks who place an explicit focus (as i do) on reducing their electricity costs.<p>To the best of my recollection, this two-person household has the following electrical usage:<p>- a raspberry pi 4 for the NAS and various network workloads, hosting about half a dozen external SSD drives on two externally-powered USB hubs.<p>- a pi5 for other network workloads<p>- a second pi4 part-time for software development<p>- a single Pi Zero acting full-time as a pi-hole server<p>- the ISP-provided network router<p>- two "mini-PCs" (an intel NUC and a generic-brand equivalent one). One is often, but not always, in "suspend" mode when not in active use. The other never is.<p>- one Lenovo laptop (rarely on)<p>- one 22-inch monitor<p>- one 32-inch monitor<p>- a small-format refrigerator (typical size for this country)<p>- a two-range stove top<p>- a water cooker (what some of you might call a "kettle")<p>- 5 light sockets, each with a 4-watt LED bulb<p>- a washing machine run 1-2 times/week, supposedly using about 0.45kwh/run<p>- a handful of mobile devices (5 at the last count)<p>- a couple of lamps we rarely use<p>(edit: HN doesn't support "-"-style lists, apparently)<p>We have no power-generation capabilities, e.g. no solar panels.<p>To help me put this into perspective: are y'all's[^1] workloads and/or yearly kwh usage?<p>[^1]: i'm a long-time resident of Germany but am not a native.