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I don't know how anyone can have $45 electric bill with a 3 bedroom house?? I think the surcharges and fees alone add up to $45 no?
To all those posters with the cheap bills... you guys don't use the dishwasher? Microwave? Don't charge your I-phones? What about your hot water pumps and/or fans? etc. I mean those things alone should be $80 per month.
Im assuming you all have gas for dryer and stove too.
Delivery and System Charges, and Power Supply Charges are dependent on the KWH used too ($0.08-$0.10 per KWH). The only other charges are about $3 and $10 for 30 days basic service.
What is considered cheap? I'm at $90/mo. and do all those things you named and am even home all day. We just don't use a dryer and keep the fridge on near-warmest setting. Those 2 are the bigger expenses year-round. Stove/oven/heating are gas. I can't believe some people are consistently over $200. Time to take inventory.
I think you meant $25 every 3 months? Ours is around $35 and in the summer months $75 for 3 months w/ IGS. I've heard of people in my town over $300 - I don't know what their deal is - we all have 100x60 lots.
No. I get my water bill like clockwork around the 17th of each month.
I have forced hot water heat, tankless system. Cook with gas as well.
I'm home all day (virtual office), don't watch tv very often, refrigerator, lots of microwave use, electric washer and dryer. Computer and stuff.... constantly plugged in.
Last bill was 184 kwh.
Don't ask about summer.. with a/c.......it's awful.
But 184 is about as low as I can go.. being home. It's lower if I'm out on vacation.
keep in mind that if you have forced air heat that drives up your electric bill also .
In the winter the forced hot air electric usage in my home probably ADDS about $50 a month to my electric bill and I usually keep my thermostat 60-62 (the sun exposure usually warms up to higher temperatures). I'm still not understanding how people pay $45 a month for all electric usage.
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I have four bedroom house. My monthly bill from LIPA is around $280. Just wondering what you guys are paying and trying to figure out how I can lower my bill. All my lights are LED.
All the major appliances are energy saver.
I live in Suffolk county.
Ok, you have eliminated Lights and appliances. Next logically is the heating and cooling system. If your system efficiencies, then the cost to upgrade heat/cool plants or insulate must be considered. After that its the hot water system.
Homes will typically use:
- 45-60% for heating and cooling
- 20-30% for hot water
- 8-15% for household appliances and entertainment
-5-7% for lighting.
- 1-2% for small electronics.
Pick a category action has not been taken. Then study options (or write back with detailed questions) for a specific action to take with a certain thing. For instance, adding a hot water reset on a boiler will save 15-25% easily on hot water heating, more if the boiler efficiency is rather poor. Installing an adaptive defrost control with an outdoor lock out can potentially save 40% on winter heat pump operations. 10-20 percent savings may be achieved by installing a automatic damper control of a non-inductive fan gas water heater. The choices are many but this stuff is all logic.
Saving energy is easy if knowing range of savings and cost of tech. Deciding a tech is pure economics. And one has to know where all the areas of energy control possible for a conservation tech to reside. Every aspect of every common available machine is the rock bottom without frills. That is unless informed to request energy saving features, common and uncommon.
There are thousands of available tech for most any machine. Being knowledgeable with operational mechanics is not difficult. One just need to do their homework. I have been doing this stuff for decades and I am routinely amazed at the options available to the trade that are overlooked because the trades are simply stuck in doing fast installs and pricy service. Oh well, having said that what I have concluded is replace the old with uncommon new abd bypass all the ordinary aches and pains of status quo.
heating and cooling doesn't seem to affect my bill that much that there's a huge swing. We heat to 67F in the winter and don't use much AC in the summer. Here's my last 12 months, not balanced billing (obviously).
I have baseboard, so maybe the forced hot air adds more, but I'd be surprised if it really affects things THAT much. It's a culmination of everything together that people are using too much of.
As for how we dry our clothes... a couple clothes racks and a clothesline in the basement and give it a couple days. It's just what we're used to anyway. The dishwasher doesn't use the dry cycle either.. it's dry the next day.
Electric stove - we had one in our old house and the bill wasn't that much different, honestly.
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