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Solar is winning the energy race - The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside (www.dw.com)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

despite using only 20kWh/month

Uh, that's really a lot.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

According to the US EIA as of 2022, the average annual amount of electricity sold to a U.S. residential electric-utility customer was 10,791 kilowatt-hours (kWh), or an average of about 899 kWh per month.

You think using 2.2% of that is excessive?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

No, watt, not kilowatt. And US is an outlier by far, with 12 kw/month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society