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Electric bills aren't calculated by the Watt, you pay per kWh. The expected cost of running the fridge is the salient information.


Yet the service into my home and each individual circuit has a maximum on received power so the Watt is usually more pertinent anyways. Taking an average Watt usage value and extrapolating that into kWh/month is both incredibly easy and completely standardized.


0.108 x 168 hours/wk x 4.4 wks/month gives a good approximation for kwh/month. Demand over time gives consumption just fine.

A 75% drop is nice and much improved.




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