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Do I need to pay deposit for water and electricity bills in UK?
How much is it normally for a commercial office?
thanks

You don’t have to with every company, but many major companies will require you to pay a big deposit. If you decide to go with a smaller company, you can usually get a lot better deal.

The homework question i am stuck on is:
b) One kilowatt-hour of electricity costs 8p. Use the following equations to calculate the total cost of using the filament bulb for its lifetime (1000 hours) The bulb is 150 watts
It also gives you two equations:
units=power x time
cost of electricity= energy transferred x price per unit

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks,
Drew.

"units=power x time" is correct ONLY if units means kW-hours, power is in kW, and time is in hours. Otherwise the equation is incorrect. I’d phrase it as
number of kW-hours = number of kW x number of hours.

second equation is also not correct. I’d phrase it as
cost of electricity = energy used in kW-hours x cost per kW-hour

So whoever wrote these is guilty of some very sloppy work.

150 watts = 0.15 kW
0.15 kW x 1000 hours = 150 kW-hours
150 kW-hours x 8p per kW-hour = 1200p or 12 pounds

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Can Southern Electric install a pay as you go meter for a previous resident.

I changed to British Gas when I moved in.

You need to let British Gas know and they will have to get in contact with Southern Electric to sort it out.

where can i find out the average gas, electricity and water bills for different states of australia? i need them for the ACT.

The best thing is to type your question into google.
That’s what I did and this site came up

http://www.abcdiamond.com/australia/average-household-electricity-consumption/

Try there.

utility companies charge a lot for the electricity bills? i live in texas and the bills are not the most reasonable. so why all the noise of cheap electricity? why such bull hype? are all the utility companies owned by a parent company? can someone pls answer my question? thanks.

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I am trying to lower my electricity bill.
I have HDTV and it says 123 watts.
I watch TV around 15-20 hours per week.

How much should I expect?

Wow, that’s really not much. Your TV uses 0.123kW per hour

In a month your TV uses about 10 kW-h ( .123 x 20 x 4 ) if your electricity cost is 18 cents per kW-h then it would cost $1.80 a month for your TV fix.

I currently have an 250 power supply ( PSU) but I am going to change to an 450 Watt PSU . If i do will I get higher bills .

The PSU capacity doesn’t really make much of a difference. The bigger PSU might use a little more residual energy for cooling, etc but ultimately it all depends on how much wattage your hardware requires. You might want to ask yourself if you even need the bigger PSU. If you know someone with a UPS that displays power usage, ask if you can hook up your system to it and get a reading. I have 2 servers with multiple HDDs, etc both with 870W PSUs here in my office and they are collectively drawing 180W. I was shocked!

So I am moving into an apartment next month, I’ve already been paying 2 mos rent.

My question is, how do electric and water companies meausre your usage? My roommates are wanting to decorate the place with lights and i am afraid that if theyre always plugged in our bill will be through the roof. rent isnt cheap already alone.

So is it if something is plugged only, if it is turned on does it count? Please someone explain exactly how this works

For electric meter questions, see here. http://science.howstuffworks.com/electric-meter-info.htm
For water meter questions, see here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_meter
With water, you get charged twice if you are also on the city sewer system. Water usage is fairly straight forward, but the electrical usage can be confusing, so here is a little more about that.
There are *some items* that use electricity just by being plugged in. It’s sometimes called *vampire draw* or other things similar. Better explanation in the link. Normally, when you are talking about *general lighting*, no. Being plugged in will not draw any power, only *use* draws power. A lamp or string lighting of any sort will not draw power until you turn them on. The *vampires* are the items such as TVs, Computers, phone chargers, power ‘strips’ , and anything with an indicator light on it. The amount of draw is individually very small, but with all the *devices* we have today, when you add them all together, it can be significant. One thing that will give you a general idea how expensive an item will be to use is the wattage rating. Sticking with the lighting example, a 100 watt bulb will cost twice as much to use as a 50 watt bulb would. Lighting however, is not going to be the BIG user. Things like air conditioners, electric stoves, and especially electric water heaters will be the big consumers of power. Anything with a motor or heating element will be the biggest users of power.
Al

So I was reading this forum post where a user talked of how his landlord complained of high electricity bills and blamed it on his desktop.

I thought desktops were mildly energy efficient and shouldn’t cause hundreds of dollars in electricity consumption.

yes. If you think, some desktops use a fuck load of power and raise your bills high, like super gaming pcs. The desktop I am using using likes to hog power, because all my usb ports are hooked up with cards,volumes,hardrives,power switches,a modem I could go on forever!

My other desktop using very little power, I have a crap load of usb ports(more powerful then this one
) and I only use 3 out of the 15 usb ports. So that doesn’t make much of a change to the bill(though that would be better for the components I use on this computer lol).

I have one more desktop, It uses half the usb ports and a little to much power. Maybe I shouldn’t have so many desktops. But then, I won’t like using laptops again and again.

Don’t forget about laptops! They have power cords to charge up and use some power to the bill ( but no one cares about laptops your focusing on desktops.)

Hope this helps.

Basically I run a small business where I get paid every month just for paying my own electricity bill and for people paying their electricity bills.

Don’t get zapped.