Re: Electricity Bill....
Wow. You guys have small electric bills.
This past couple of months we have been running close to a $1,000 electric bill at home (we are all electric here in the boonies, and have a cooperative electricity company, so no real competition). The house is well insulated, but I like it cool. I also cool my, insulated, 3,000 sq ft workshop at the weekends which certainly adds to the bill. The workshop has three 3 tonne AC units and two small 1,200 BTU units. The house has two 3 tonne units. I swapped out every incandescent for CFLs a few years back, and I'll look at LEDs as the CFLs age and fail. I like it cool, and I pay for that I know. My business is 1,800 sq ft and that bill was a little over $1,000 this month. The business is evenings and weekends animal hospital, so we have lights running every night, an outdoor sign, and I'm guessing the x-ray table eats a nice chunk, along with all the coolers, and medical devices that run all the time. So, I'm spending around $2,000 a month in the summer on electricity. |
Re: Electricity Bill....
You win...even here in the high desert with 110 during the summer, but dry, it's $500 max.
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Re: Electricity Bill....
Mine is $27 this month. I don't know how people can afford these electric bills in the hundreds.
The last hotel I worked at, 87 rooms the bill was 3,000 to 6,000 a month depending on our occupancy. But I thank California for buying power from us so we can have lower rates.... |
Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by thinbrit
(Post 11420001)
Wow. You guys have small electric bills.
This past couple of months we have been running close to a $1,000 electric bill at home (we are all electric here in the boonies, and have a cooperative electricity company, so no real competition |
Re: Electricity Bill....
That's exactly it.
I spend far more cooling the house than heating it. But Thinbrits cost is wow... |
Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by Uncle_Bob
(Post 11419930)
Yeah dull, no good for kitchen. LED for the Kitchen will be expensive. A PAR30 flood led equivalent to 50w will run over $20 a pop. A PAR38 (120w) takes you to over 30.
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Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by mrsmaccmoo
(Post 11418995)
Is it just me, or is electricity really expensive here (CT) compared to UK?? Last month $186, this month $198. Only 2 of us, fairly large-ish 4 bed house, but we rarely use the AC, so we are simply paying for lights and hot water..... much larger house in the UK was about £200 per quarter. We are dreading winter....
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Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by mrsmaccmoo
(Post 11418995)
Is it just me, or is electricity really expensive here (CT) compared to UK?? Last month $186, this month $198. Only 2 of us, fairly large-ish 4 bed house, but we rarely use the AC, so we are simply paying for lights and hot water..... much larger house in the UK was about £200 per quarter. We are dreading winter....
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Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by Bob
(Post 11420024)
The one I got from Ocean State was a 60W equivalent and it's blindingly bright...not bad for $3
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Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 11420013)
Mine is $27 this month. I don't know how people can afford these electric bills in the hundreds. ....
We have natural gas heating and water heater, and AC and the usual electric appliances, including an induction stove. For six months of the year our gas bill is around $25-30, for heating our water, then rises in November, usually peaking in January and February at around $180-$220ish, December and March are about $120-$150ish, and November and April are probably around $70-$100. Our electric bill is the mirror of that, around $60 during the winter months, then peaks at around $200-$220 in July and August. We usually manage to have most of April and October without using either heat or AC, or at least that is our goal, and occasionally it can be as long as six weeks. I think we have only turned on the heat in October in one year since we moved here 11 years ago. Unless the cooling trend continues, and we need to turn on the heat early or the heat comes back and we need the AC, we could get six weeks this fall with negligible AC and no heating. :) |
Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by RICH
(Post 11419005)
Cooker, dryer, dishwasher? Did you have gas in UK?.
What is the unit cost? Here its about 11.5cents/kwh. Latest cost from Npower - one of the many utility suppliers in UK, converted at $1.60/£ are' Daily charge 46c Unit charge, daytime, 21.63c Unit charge, night , 11.34c We had a couple of storage heaters that used the night rate. If we had got rid of the night rate the standard charge is about 18c per Kwh . so 11.5c ain't bad! something is gobbling up your power. Use it as excuse to replace old appliances with more energy efficient ones! Enjoy shopping! |
Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11420071)
Me neither, at least not the multi-hundred ones.
We have natural gas heating and water heater, and AC and the usual electric appliances, including an induction stove. For six months of the year our gas bill is around $25-30, for heating our water, then rises in November, usually peaking in January and February at around $180-$220ish, December and March are about $120-$150ish, and November and April are probably around $70-$100. Our electric bill is the mirror of that, around $60 during the winter months, then peaks at around $200-$220 in July and August. We usually manage to have most of April and October without using either heat or AC, or at least that is our goal, and occasionally it can be as long as six weeks. I think we have only turned on the heat in October in one year since we moved here 11 years ago. Unless the cooling trend continues, and we need to turn on the heat early or the heat comes back and we need the AC, we could get six weeks this fall with negligible AC and no heating. :) We have base board heaters, but they don't see to add a ton to the bill, it doesn't fluctuate a ton in winter, a few dollars. I am pretty sure the water heater and fridge are the 2 biggest consumers of power as when I have had similar size older apartments that don't have water heaters in each unit, the bill is considerably lower even with older appliances in those apartments. |
Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 11420013)
Mine is $27 this month. I don't know how people can afford these electric bills in the hundreds.
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Re: Electricity Bill....
FWIW I was away for 2 weeks in July (half of August billing cycle) and turned off everything except the fridge and set the a/c low
July bill 1066 kwh $134.56 August 810 kwh $103.19 September 1072 kwh $135.42 |
Re: Electricity Bill....
Originally Posted by Hotscot
(Post 11420020)
That's exactly it.
I spend far more cooling the house than heating it. But Thinbrits cost is wow... So I overstated my home electric bill by an extra 50% :o It is expensive, but we don't have gas or water bills. |
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