Other materials that may require a professional wash service include rugs, carpets, curtains, blankets, fabric and leather covers for seats and other furniture. (photo credit: zazzle.ca) This demand for laundry and dry cleaning services in Africa is expected to explode in the coming years. Africaâs urban (city) population has been growing at roughly 3.5 percent every year and more than 500 million Africans will become city people by 2030.
Households paid a record $1,419 on average for electricity in 2010, the fifth consecutive yearly increase above the inflation rate, a USA TODAY analysis of government data found. The jump has added about $300 a year to what households pay for electricity.
Depending on whether a state is hot or cold, urban or rural, an average household can use as little as 531 kWh a month (Maine) or as much as 1,245 kWh (Louisiana). Costs vary state-by-state, too. Hawaiians pay the most for electricity ($203 a month) and New Mexicans pay the least ($75 a month).ut thereâs another value listed: how much energy you actually used. If you are a perfectly average American living in a perfectly average household, your monthly electricity bill will read 903 kilowatt hours (kWh), which costs $107, per household. But most of us donât live in perfectly average households.