[stockups]

just got my electric bill it was 275 bucks for only 24 days sucks

[Exaday]

Mine was close to 400.

[ScoopLV]

This is why I made my house unusually energy efficient. If I hadn't run the AC during the Mt. Charleston fire for five days, we would be below $100 for the month.

[binionrat]

When temps get up to 110 best to turn it off and hang around the pools, malls and casinos all day and use their a/c. Maybe go to a cheap afternoon movie after a morning at the mall.....Make a game of how much you can keep your a/c off??? Any other ideas to save $ by hanging around somewhere and not spend a lot of money Oh, maybe sitting at a Starbuck reading a Kindle....

[ScoopLV]

We go up to Mt. Charleston occasionally. At least we DID before the fire. It's not really a money-saving venture though -- what you save in electricity you'll pay in gasoline to get there and back. It's just very, very nice up there. I like to sit at a picnic bench near the ski slope, read a book, have a picnic, smell the pines, see the wild horses, etc.

The three best things you can do if you live in the desert or any hot climate. (Coming from someone who has lived in the desert or in a hot climate continuously since 1991):

1) Acclimate yourself to the heat. If you're in AC all the time, you'll never get used to heat. Set the AC a couple points higher every few days until 85f feels OK.

2) Deserts were made for swamp coolers. I'm typing this at 4 pm in July, and the interior temperature is 81f. I pay pennies a day to run my cooler.

3) Insulate where you can, shade where you can, reduce energy consumption where you can. The Moroccans are the masters of this. Their Riad houses are comfortable no matter how hot the Sahara gets. If I were forced to live here for the rest of my life, I would buy property on the extreme West side of town, and build one of these:

[BWNLV]

I signed up for NV Energy average monthly billing. They take the average of the past 12 months and your bill is the same each month. No huge summer bills. I pay $65 each and every month. No fear of opening the electric bill when it arrives in the mail

[MSchu]

Originally Posted by BWNLV

I signed up for NV Energy average monthly billing. They take the average of the past 12 months and your bill is the same each month. No huge summer bills. I pay $65 each and every month. No fear of opening the electric bill when it arrives in the mail

very interesting... is there a reconcile at some point or do they just continue to charge you the prorated amount even though your usage might have actually gone done when annualized?

[Trash Can]

My last electric bill was dated 6/8/13. Nothing since - my online account info shows paid in full. I recently sent an inquiry because I know I'll have to pay sooner or later. As of today, no one at NV Energy can explain why I haven't been billed other than "there's been a delay in the billing process". Kind of weird. I can't think of a time any utility has been nearly three weeks late (and counting) sending out a bill.

[airics]

Originally Posted by BWNLV

I signed up for NV Energy average monthly billing. They take the average of the past 12 months and your bill is the same each month. No huge summer bills. I pay $65 each and every month. No fear of opening the electric bill when it arrives in the mail

1br or 2br vacation townhouse?

[lvoc]

Here is ours. The opposite of Scoops. We keep it cool and have obsolete air conditioners in an older single story of about 3000 SF. And this is good by the way. We use to run 650 in the hot periods.