Stop Your Electric Meter (LEGALLY!). Business owners who want smaller electricity bill watch this.

Do large step down transformers waste significant amount of electricity?
Answer is in this video.

[@ypcomchic]

The new electric meters are what is using the power as they require power for their WiFi to submit your readings to the electric company.

[@xpcone]

Come to Germany, we have 250% since 2017. We don't have peak rates in overall, but depending on region you pay about $0.67 per kWh, a monthly connection fee up to $23 and if you're a business with high load, you'll have an additional charge on your daily max used kW peak, net building/up keeping fee and federal taxes. When you're using 30-80kW peak during one hour and about 200kWh per day. You have an average of $1,35 per kWh and $300 per month only to get a grid connection.

[@albert7ii]

I thought we had it bad in Ireland, but am changing my mind after reading this ! Tks for posting.

[@bdblazer6400]

Bro. You are talking Bände.

[@Equiptek_Labs_Inc]

Hallo, We do not have an actual German utility bill so we don't know about all the additional taxes and fees German rate payers are charged for. But according to UK.gov site, which publishes tables with kW rates for EU counties for small, medium, large and extra large consumers. Germany kW rate in 2023 for small consumer was 18.36 pence.

[@Krawacik3d]

Did your measurement take power factor into account? This kind of measurement results in VA, not W. Also, your additional transformer looks to be a ~50W job, it'd be long gone before any breaker will trip.

[@Equiptek_Labs_Inc]

We are demonstrating that stepdown transformers waste electricity without load and are not measuring the actual billed kW's here. The control transformer has a fuse on the primary (most modern ones have a fuse holder already attached to the terminals like at 4:10).