How much would a small business need to spend on electricity?
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Your IT equipment is not the main draw here if the business will be housed in an office and have employees.  If all the components of the business is strictly confined to the computers and internet appliances, then you could base your usage/cost on this alone.  If you have employees, the bigger utility expense will be the AC/Heat, lighting and other items normally found in the office.\n\nYou can determine the approximate electrical cost by adding up the wattage of each applicance and/or system and the dividing that by 1,000 and multiplying that number by the current cost per Kilowatt Hour (kwh) charged by the utility company.\n\nHope this helps!
808740
It depends on how much you use the electricity.
360016
There are 24 x 31 = 744 hours in a 31 day month.  Check your fan name tag for the rated watts (single speed?).  Multiply the watts times 744 and divide by 1,000 to get KW-Hr (kilowatt-hours) of power per month.  Check your power bill for the charge per KW-Hr.  It should be about 10 to 15 cents per KW-Hr (or KWH), depending upon where you live.  For example if a small fan draws say 20 watts, the calculation would be:\n\n(20 x 744)/1,000 = 14.88 KW-Hr @ $0.10 per KW-Hr = $1.49 per month or about $17.85 per year.\n\nGood luck.
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Living in Texas, my electric bill drops drastically during the winter. Consider a $500 bill for July versus $86 for October!\n\nHowever, if last year is anything to go by, my electric bill will rise by about $10 for the Christmas season. I don't do a lot of lights and fuss, though. Just the tree.
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As far as I am concerned, alternate suppliers have to prove that they have the know-how to continue to supply the lowest price electricity over the long term.  In my area, power prices are set by auction contracts.  My electricity supplier must be a "player" in the market with a good track record.  All of the other stuff is just fluff.  Show me the lowest $/kwh rate and lock it in for a decent length of time or go try selling used cars or something.
875812
Most electric companies are monopolies - they have no reason to spend money on puttng together something that will require an initial investment on their part.  You are going to pay your bill because you don't have a choice, so they have no motivation to upgrade anything.
301187
that depends of it's power. If you want electricity for 3 houses it's affordable. For 3000 it's a goverment issue :)
584130
Depends on what you are doing. they will charge for every item that is associated w/ project. Example would be, "How many receptacles are you putting in?" They will charge you individually for each. Typically the can run from hundreds to thousands. Your local Building and Safety office should have a web site that you could go to to get more info. \n\nGood Luck, mark11mil
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Conventional PV will cost ~$4-5K per installed kw peak production.  So, take this and apply data for different areas as far as average day length for various times of the year that will have different weather conditions, etc.  I don't have that data handy for upstate New York, but you can get it from the link below.\n\nI'll make a guess of ~25% effectiveness in any one 24 hour period, this means each peak kw of production power will get you say 6 kwh per day, 365 days a year which gets you 2190 kwh per installed peak kw.   So, you'd need about 23 installed peak kw generating capacity to produce 50000 kwh per year, which would cost about $92K to install.
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I suggest you to save your money from now just for a week or couple days until you have enough money to buy the UPS.. because I thought the UPS now only Rp.300rb or less..I think it's cheap, so for you it's cheaper =)\nBut..the UPS doesn't solve your problem because you will still pending your job until the electricity turned on. So why don't you tell to the owner of the house to increase the electricity power, in fact you and your friends are already pay for the facilities.
775234
Not knowing anything specific about Texas power and if power is more or less expensive than it is under Westar Energy (Kansas) -- I paid ~$30 a month for power in a 1 bedroom apartment a year ago, and I now pay $40-45 a month for power for a 1000 square-foot house now.  You can always reduce your power consumption by shifting over from incandescent bulbs to compact florescent bulbs.    Were I to shift over to these bulbs, I would probably expect to shave a couple of dollars off of my electricity every month, thus paying for the bulbs with their own savings.
707659
You should, because you can save electricity :)
688774
Dell PowerEdge is a good choice for small business. You can click on the following link and it will guide you to the right model.\nOther brands, HP ProLiant, gateway.. those are worldwide support\n\nd10v01b
820704
Good Idea..but probably expensive to hook up the equipment to some sort of generator....gotta keep the place looking clean.\n\ninresponse to answerman....(below)\nIt could be possible to keep a battery bank charged and use an inverter to run a small a/c.\nSort of like a solar setup or windmill.
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Probably depends on the metro area you live in, and how much you invest into your business.\n\nThe first site cited below says $75,00-150,000, before all the overhead is subtracted.
820095
You have many choices, for occasional use in a small office you could get something that works just fine in the $40 to $60 range from Black Box or PC Connection for example.  Here are some examples:\nhttp://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?Sku=5372671\nhttp://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?Sku=473154\nhttp://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?Sku=5244688\nhttp://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?Sku=473160\nhttp://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=151,156,987&mid=4277\nhttp://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=151,156,987&mid=125\nhttp://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=151,156,987&mid=1669
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You can buy that stuff, if the scale of your house is similar to a doll house.  For example, see:\nhttp://store.dollhousecollectables.com/electrical.html\nOtherwise you can do all by yourself, but because of the miniature nature, you might be better off to go to a Hobby Store and get bulbs, thin wires, and transformer which are actually meant for model trains, and wire it all up yourself.\nWhatever you do, work with low voltage (maximum 12 volt) only!\n\nAt this scale, the only "renewable source" that makes sense is photovoltaic. You can put a photo cell "on top of the roof", for example. The kind of cell you need is determined by the lamp bulbs you use. You need to know the voltage you need, and the wattage of all lights accumulated. It would be best to use LEDs, because LEDs use much less electrical power (about 0.06 Watt @ 3 Volt) than mini bulbs (0.20 Watt @ 12 Volt).