A DIY solar expert, @bigbrovar, on X, has spoken about how much he saves in electricity bills with his solar setup. With the current high cost of Band A electricity use in Nigeria, he used an open resource to calculate his ROI….READ FULL ARTICLE
According to his energy monitoring system, the power his solar system generates is equivalent to paying N4,000 daily as a Band A user and over N100k monthly.
The cost of @bigbrovar’s electricity generation a year is about N1.2m. His power consumption during the daytime was pegged at N273.9 KWh.
In response to a comment, the man said his AC uses between 350w to 700w, depending on how long it has been operating.
See his tweets below:
Created an energy dashboard showing how much electricity I use if I were paying Band A prices.
Currently that is over ₦100k a month, ₦4k a day or about ₦1.2m a year.The dashboard was generated using the free & open (source) energy monitoring software emoncms pic.twitter.com/gs5QQNuhOK
— Othell Yarwyck (@bigbrovar) April 26, 2024
Legit.ng compiled some of the reactions below:
@D15Ox said:
“Band A = 20 hours of power every day (although it’s not clear to me if that’s what you’ve captured there); if you were running a generator (diesel or otherwise) for the other 4 hours, do you know what that would cost you? I’m just curious.”
He responded:
“It is meant to calculate what I use from solar using Band A rates. I can program cost of 4 hours diesel but that won’t reflect my use case.”
@thepremiumguy_ asked:
“Brilliant. Can others use this? How will people connect this to their power source to see these data.”
@i_am_resocorp asked:
“If you were to sell to your neighbours, how much would you sell a kwh/unit?”
@__tega__ said:
“Finally found a data person doing work that can solve some of our local problem. This is such a relief.”...READ FULL ARTICLE
