How to find out how much energy an appliance uses

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Dave Sabri

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By Dave Sabri

Published on Wednesday 24th 2009

Perhaps the most obvious way of finding out just how much electrical energy is being used by an appliance is to turn everything else in your house off and take two meter readings exactly one minute or ten minutes apart. This will give you an approximate figure which you can then use to calculate its power demands over longer periods based on your own usage estimates.