Electric Power Cost Calculator

Electric Power Cost Calculator is a software program that was built in Java in order to aid people in calculating how much some household tasks can cost you in terms of electricity.

The setup process can be bypassed, as this is this product is portable. This means that the Windows registry and Start menu/screen are not going to suffer any changes, and it is not going to leave any kind of remnants on the hard disk after you delete it.

Another aspect that needs to be noted is that you can easily copy the program files to a USB pen drive, and thus run Electric Power Cost Calculator on any computer you have been granted access to.

The interface you are met with is dedicated to both beginners and highly experienced people, as it encloses a design which can only be described as plain and simple. It consist of a small menu bar, a few boxes and two drop-down menus.

First and foremost, you should know that you can easily choose the country you live in, so as to be sure that the prices are relevant to you. In addition to that, you should know that you can choose an electricity-consuming activity from a drop-down menu and thus, figure out how much that task can cost you.

Some of the operation you can choose from are running a furnace fan or refrigerator for a month, leave a 100 watt incandescent light bulb on 24/7 for a month, brush your teeth with an electric toothbrush, make two piece of toast and iron for 30 minutes and the list goes on.

After choosing the aforementioned parameters, you can easily view the duty cycle (expressed as percentage), power in Watts, duration, energy in kwh and mega joules, and the total cost (dollars). No other notable options are integrated.

In conclusion, Electric Power Cost Calculator is a pretty efficient piece of software. It does not hamper the computer’s performance, the response time is good, the interface is accessible to all users and our tests did not reveal any crashes, freezes, bugs or errors.