Finally, a huge percentage of electrical use is from motors. (biggerpockets.com)
EnergyStar - rated refrigerators will cut electrical use in half, compared to older machines made before 1993. (scientificamerican.com)
To calculate this charge, Rocky Mountain Power would look at a household's electrical use for an entire month, find the hour in which power use peaked, and then multiply the kilowatts of power used during that single hour by $ 9.02. (archive.sltrib.com)