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Today I want to bring back an issue we have discussed in different ways in the past. Most notable was a discussion of the electricity usage for the country vs the state of SC during the constant blackouts during last year's hydroelectric plant shut down.
So this time let's talk about the specific use of a household in SC. According to http://www.electricitylocal.com/states/south-carolina/ the average residential home in SC uses 37.3 kiloWatthours per day. For those that struggle with the metric system, that is 37300 Watt hours per day.
With the contributions by the mission team in September, we have now installed solar powered generated electricity to all of our buildings. Each major building and several smaller ones have their own power generating stations (not substations) totaling 475 Watts of production. After taking in efficiency and number of direct sunlight hours I calculate that is 3.6 kiloWatt hours per day. So our entire site generates less than 10% of what an average SC home consumes in a day.
Going back to our website from before we learn the average monthly bill for electricity in a SC home is $132. That is $1,584. The last two buildings we installed electricity and solar power generating systems on cost $325 (that included all the solar power generation and storage equipment, wiring, light sockets, switches, AC inverters, plug outlets and the light bulbs). We have 5 major buildings (preschool, medical clinic, overnight ward, nurse's house). Based on that our entire electrical system cost roughly $900 (the medical clinic is a much larger system than the others). Add another $150 for minor buildings and you get $1050 or roughly 2/3rds the cost of a residential yearly electric bill.
None of this is said to shame anyone into contributing. I don't believe in that, either you felt called or moved to donate to a program/ministry or you don't. I say these things again to help attempt to give some metric to understand what we are doing here.
So this time let's talk about the specific use of a household in SC. According to http://www.electricitylocal.com/states/south-carolina/ the average residential home in SC uses 37.3 kiloWatthours per day. For those that struggle with the metric system, that is 37300 Watt hours per day.
With the contributions by the mission team in September, we have now installed solar powered generated electricity to all of our buildings. Each major building and several smaller ones have their own power generating stations (not substations) totaling 475 Watts of production. After taking in efficiency and number of direct sunlight hours I calculate that is 3.6 kiloWatt hours per day. So our entire site generates less than 10% of what an average SC home consumes in a day.
Going back to our website from before we learn the average monthly bill for electricity in a SC home is $132. That is $1,584. The last two buildings we installed electricity and solar power generating systems on cost $325 (that included all the solar power generation and storage equipment, wiring, light sockets, switches, AC inverters, plug outlets and the light bulbs). We have 5 major buildings (preschool, medical clinic, overnight ward, nurse's house). Based on that our entire electrical system cost roughly $900 (the medical clinic is a much larger system than the others). Add another $150 for minor buildings and you get $1050 or roughly 2/3rds the cost of a residential yearly electric bill.
None of this is said to shame anyone into contributing. I don't believe in that, either you felt called or moved to donate to a program/ministry or you don't. I say these things again to help attempt to give some metric to understand what we are doing here.
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