Learn how to calculate the cost of your electricity

Learn how to calculate the cost of your appliances when they're on.

This is so cool if you didn't know how to figure out what everything in your house costs you to run now you can figure it out just by doing some simple math.Here's how to do it. Take the amount of watts each appliance is rated at divide the wattage by 1000 take that number multiply it by the number of hours you use it for then you will have your KWH or kilowatt hours then take that by your electric rate that your charged and walah there is how much your appliances cost. Here is the actual formula.(100 watt light bulb,180 watttoaster oven,500 watt tv, 100+180+500=780 watts/1000= .78x 8 hours=6.24 kwh x .07=.43 cents to run that stuff for that amount of time. Pretty cool huh?This is a good calculation to know because it'll help you and your family understand how much money they're spending watching tv or being on the computer and so on.If they know and understand this it could save you money. To save more money ck out our other electricity saving tips at www.makeyourownelectricity.biz
Total wattage/1000=watts

Watts × hours of use= kWh (kiloWatt-hour) of energy.

kWh × $0.07f/kWh = cost electricity