Power Measurement

                   Every house has its own bill provided by their electric utility company. And every month, we are paying for it. But, are you not wonder why there is no such a list of appliances in the electric bill? Like… 1. Electric iron 2. air conditioner and etc.?  Well, probably none and it will never happen because they are categorize by …… and they are charge in a different rate for each kilo-watt hour (kWh) used. A kilo-watt hour (kWh) is 1000 watts of energy used in a one hour period.  A 1000 watt appliance that is turned on for 1 hour equals 1 kilo-watt hour. Well, that’s probably our oven toaster or electric iron. They are just LIKE A BOSS!!

              But so much for that, consumers are operating many appliances, and it gets measured by the electric meter. But the problem is some consumers do not know how electric bill comes up with that amount of charge per month.

For those who are not fun with mathematics, but wanted to know how exactly electric bills are calculated. a li'l mathematics can be apply.

We called it ohm’s Law:

                      Voltage (V) = current (I) x Resistance (R)   

                      Power (P) = current (I) x voltage (V)

                     Voltage (V)        unit is Voltage/ V

                     Current (I)          unit is Ampere/ A

                    Resistance (R)   unit is Ohms/ Ω

                    Power (P)            unit is Watts/ W

Sometimes you notice at the back portion of your appliances, you will see some of the listed above.  Lucky you if you will saw the wattage of it but if it is not, you will force yourself to do calculations. Sometimes voltage and current rating are given. So, you will just multiply the two as shown above to get the power rating.

A consumer consumes 1000 watts load per hour daily for one month. Calculate The Total Energy bill of the consumer if per unit rate is 9 in $ [Take 1 month = 30 Days]

Solution

1unit = 1kWh. 

So Total kWh = 1000 x 24 x 30 = 720000 watts/hour

we Want to convert it into Units, Where is 1unit = 1kWh.
So total Consumed units. 720000/1000...... (k=kilo=1000)
Total Units = 720.
Cost of per unit is 9.
So total Cost or bill= 720 x 9 = 6480 $

(1000 watts for 1 hour = 1kWh = 1 unit of Energy) So if the rate of unit is 5 Dollars, then you will pay 5 Dollars as a bill for your bulb.