{"id":58374,"date":"2025-01-15T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58374"},"modified":"2025-01-15T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:23:31","slug":"how-much-does-air-con-cost-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58374","title":{"rendered":"How Much Does Air Con Cost to Run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-58375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coolers.jpg\" alt=\"Coolers\" width=\"950\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coolers.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Coolers-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are some typical daily running costs for four different types of cooling, assuming an operating time of 12 hours over the day:<\/p>\n<p>Cooling Device Power Use Cost per Day<br \/>\nDucted Air Con 4.5kW $16.20<br \/>\nSplit System AC 1.2kW $4.32<br \/>\nCeiling Fan with DC Motor 20W 7 cents<br \/>\nPortable Fan with DC Motor 15W 5 cents<br \/>\nCeiling Fan in Night Mode 5W 2 cents<\/p>\n<p>Use our free electricity cost calculator to run your own numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reductionrevolution.com.au\/blogs\/calculator\/electricity-cost\">https:\/\/reductionrevolution.com.au\/blogs\/calculator\/electricity-cost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some typical daily running costs for four different types of cooling, assuming an operating time of 12 hours over the day: Cooling Device Power Use Cost per Day Ducted Air Con 4.5kW $16.20 Split System AC 1.2kW $4.32 Ceiling Fan with DC Motor 20W 7 cents Portable Fan with DC Motor 15W 5 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Much Does Air Con Cost to Run?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58376,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374\/revisions\/58376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}