{"id":311,"date":"2011-10-12T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/hybrid-hot-water-heater-followup\/"},"modified":"2011-10-27T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:57:33","slug":"hybrid-hot-water-heater-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/hybrid-hot-water-heater-followup\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Hot Water Heater Followup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/hybrid-hot-water\/\">posted <\/a>in February about installing a new hybrid hot water heater.  Although the initial price was almost $1000 higher, it is supposed to cost less to operate.<\/p>\n<p>6 months later, I have some data.  Comparing kilowatt-hours consumed in 2011 with 2010, my average monthly bill is $43 less than it would have been at last year&#8217;s usage.  So I would expect in a year to save about $515, paying for the extra cost of the heater in less than 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>Of course every year is different, and this is hardly a scientific study.  And it doesn&#8217;t include the coldest winter months when a heat pump is less efficient.   But it is interesting, none-the-less.<\/p>\n<p>Later this month or early next month I will have my solar panels installed, so that will make it harder to track the savings from the water heater as everything will be changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted in February about installing a new hybrid hot water heater. Although the initial price was almost $1000 higher, it is supposed to cost less to operate. 6 months later, I have some data. Comparing kilowatt-hours consumed in 2011 with 2010, my average monthly bill is $43 less than it would have been at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}