Monthly Kilowatt Usage and Cost
- skobydog
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Averaging 6.0 kWh daily with my boiler is running along with the furnace fan. Still running 50 gallon heat pump water heater also.
This is 50% higher than previous month. $15 supply plus $25 delivery for a total $40.00 bill.
I'm also single, have very little laundry (one small load/week and hang clothes to dry), watch tv on my laptop, and am at work a lot.
This is 50% higher than previous month. $15 supply plus $25 delivery for a total $40.00 bill.
I'm also single, have very little laundry (one small load/week and hang clothes to dry), watch tv on my laptop, and am at work a lot.
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- Rob R.
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I probably use that much per day just for the Christmas lights.
7 loads per week in the dryer...10 loads in the dish washer with the heated dry cycle...if I had an electric range I might set a forum record.
7 loads per week in the dryer...10 loads in the dish washer with the heated dry cycle...if I had an electric range I might set a forum record.
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- hotblast1357
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- Other Heating: air source heat pump, oil furnace
We do 7-8 loads of dishes a week with the “Sahara” dry mode, around 10 loads of laundry, with the old style machines, and we have a double oven electric range! But judging by what I’ve used, I’m guessing between 350-500 kw per month.
- Rob R.
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I will have to look at my old bills to see how much it was before I started heating the shop. I know that 4000 watt heater is sucking some power.
Big well pump feeding two houses doesn't help either.
Big well pump feeding two houses doesn't help either.
- franpipeman
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- Location: Wernersville pa
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- Other Heating: alpine propane condensing boiler radiant floor
840 kw total .14 per kwh .074 generation /kwh
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Our monthly usage varies from about 340 to 750 kwh. The summer months being the worst from spinning 3 window ac's most of the time. No electric water heater, but very costly oil boiler provided HW with an indirect tank. An electric range, clothes dryer and well pump add their pain. Also use baseboard electric heat upstairs a bit in the shoulder seasons.
I don't have a bill handy, but for my purposes, I use the bottom line for rate, after all the taxes and many surcharges. It's somewhere north of $.15 /KWH. All the state and federal taxes, cost costs, wifi meter reading charge ( I don't have it), customer education costs ( one brochure a year about standby electronics) and my favorite charge, the privilege of being our customer charge. My power co. is only a grid switcher these days with no generating plants. They lost Three Mile island years ago and once owned a coal plant or two.
I don't have a bill handy, but for my purposes, I use the bottom line for rate, after all the taxes and many surcharges. It's somewhere north of $.15 /KWH. All the state and federal taxes, cost costs, wifi meter reading charge ( I don't have it), customer education costs ( one brochure a year about standby electronics) and my favorite charge, the privilege of being our customer charge. My power co. is only a grid switcher these days with no generating plants. They lost Three Mile island years ago and once owned a coal plant or two.
- Freddy
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750 to 1,000 KW a month. Last I knew it was $.172 a KWH. I has gone up since I looked. With my solar panels my bill doesn't reflect the actual cost. I did read it's going up another 3% this Spring. The reason we use so much is that, well, we are electric pigs! Living and working here 24/7..... Air compressors, welders, heat pumps, well pump, pumps on the boiler system. It all adds up. Oops, don't forget the electric car and electric hot water in the summer.
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Mostly electric, stove and dryer...
We average 2 loads a day...
They would be gas but it is 273 feet away...
probably 3-4k to extend the main to our house...
Two full size fridges and a full size freezer...
All LED for lights...
Hot water by the oil boiler, gotta get the coal stove and hot water hooked up!...
Honorary triplets are almost 6 and 5...
Daycare money soon to be rededicated to Coal heat and hot water in the new house...
With 3 ladies the hot water tank needs an upgrade...
Summer camp, sports, ballet...
Oh ya the full cost of electric is about 25 cents per KWH...
electric runs $250/month with no AC...
Add $200 if it is a hot summer like 2016...
We average 2 loads a day...
They would be gas but it is 273 feet away...
probably 3-4k to extend the main to our house...
Two full size fridges and a full size freezer...
All LED for lights...
Hot water by the oil boiler, gotta get the coal stove and hot water hooked up!...
Honorary triplets are almost 6 and 5...
Daycare money soon to be rededicated to Coal heat and hot water in the new house...
With 3 ladies the hot water tank needs an upgrade...
Summer camp, sports, ballet...
Oh ya the full cost of electric is about 25 cents per KWH...
electric runs $250/month with no AC...
Add $200 if it is a hot summer like 2016...
- Rob R.
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That is pretty rough. Even propane is likely to be a considerably cheaper for cooking and running the dryer.Oh ya the full cost of electric is about 25 cents per KWH...
How does your local rate for NG compare? If you were not heating with coal the 3-4k to hookup to NG would probably be recovered in a few years compared the cost of oil.
- lsayre
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- Other Heating: Resistance Boiler (13.5 KW), ComfortMax 75
I just looked at a bill, and my cost of electricity is only 5.6 cents per KWH, meaning that all other charges come to 8.75 cents per KWH.
Only 39% of my bill is for the electricity itself.
Only 39% of my bill is for the electricity itself.
- windyhill4.2
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- Coal Size/Type: 404-nut, 520 rice ,anthracite for both
Total for me is $.1336/kwh,electric is .065/kwh.