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by dogsgobork 249 days ago
Electric bills aren't calculated by the Watt, you pay per kWh. The expected cost of running the fridge is the salient information.
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Yet the service into my home and each individual circuit has a maximum on received power so the Watt is usually more pertinent anyways. Taking an average Watt usage value and extrapolating that into kWh/month is both incredibly easy and completely standardized.
0.108 x 168 hours/wk x 4.4 wks/month gives a good approximation for kwh/month. Demand over time gives consumption just fine.

A 75% drop is nice and much improved.