Average Japanese home’s electricity consumption
In yesterday’s Seikyo Shimbun as part of an introduction to Warm Biz there was a chart of electricity usage in the average Japanese home, derived from data by JCCCA, Japan Centre for Climate Change Action, and their Low-Energy Home Electrics Fact Sheet.
Device Percentage Air conditioning 24.9% Lighting 16.2% Refrigerator 15.5% Television 9.9% Electric carpet 4.4% Electric toilet seat 4.1% Clothes drier 2.9% Dishwasher and drier 1.7% Other 20.3%
Lighting seems very high to me, and you’ll perhaps notice that washing machines is not noted: in Japan, most washers use cold, not hot water, so they need no heating element for water.
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riyot said,
November 14, 2006 @ 15:14
Lightning might seem high, but as you propably know Japanese light their rooms a lot more light than in at least Europe. Darkness means that you have some dirty corners to hide.