Science Homework Help

Using the Home Energy Saver website, determine how much energy you use annually.  Once you access the site you will need to submit your ZIP code and then hit the submit button.  Once you hit submit scroll down and enter the data required in all of the fields.  Once you have input all of the data, you will hit the calculate button.  Once you have done the calculations, a new page will open which allows you to do comparisons.  Initially the site will give summary information.  To view your energy use by appliance or type, please click on the blue link called “Details” next to “Summary.”  That will open a screen with all of your energy use by type.  You will need to add all of the KWh usage up to get your total.  If you have your electric bills for the last year you can just look up the amount of energy you used in your home instead of using the website.  Regardless of how you do it, once you have the values, answer the following questions:

If electricity costs 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, how much is your annual electricity bill?  (Hint:  take the total energy in kWh X 0.10).  How would your bill change if you paid 25 cents per kWh?  Once again you MUST give a value or answer to each question or the website will not function correctly.

http://hes.lbl.gov/consumer

my zip code is 32210