JSkrehot
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To each their own, however, you think you save $2,400 a year in electricity costs for TV's, dishwasher, fridge, and clothes washer? Not trying to start an argument but that is absolutely impossible. You couldn't save that much money yearly if the items you replaced were 15 years old, so definitely not if they were 6 years old. My Kenmore Elite Washer and Dryer are 11-12 years old, I just looked up the specs, they use 172 kWh/year versus new 2017's at 102 kWh/year, that is $17.28 savings per year if I paid $2,000 for a new set, it would take 115 years to pay for themselves, so to "just get new ones that are more efficient" vs buying when needed, it doesn't make financial sense. I just looked up 2013 65" Plasma TV's, they use $38 in energy per year, you probably replaced 2 or 3, however, I am going to calculate that you replaced 10, if you replaced 10 and your new TV's cost $0 to operate (which they don't), you would only save $380 (more like the $76 when replacing 2 or 3 minus the cost to run the new ones) and your other replaced items can't come anywhere close to making up the other savings you claim. I am super interested on how you calculated a $2,400 per year savings!!!! You probably aren't even saving $240/year.Plasma HDTVs were all 6 years old, same for dishwasher, refrigerator and washer. Dishwasher and refrigerators were practically dead. The Plasma TVs were still fully functional, but the replacement price with Samsung 4K LEDs was ridiculous, plus I was able to sell the old HDTVs locally. Replacements were all purchased on Black Friday at Amazon and BestBuy.
The yearly savings in energy I paid to SCE I calculated to be about $2,400 / year, so I will recoup my costs in less than 3 years. After that it is all gains.
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