How much is your electric bill this month?

[SouthernLady]

This month ours is $70.02.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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WOW !!!!

That is high.

 

[ruth]

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OMG!!!!you need to take out a loan. I thought mine was bad.

That didn't include the $600 in propane and the $150 in pellets for the pellet stove.

Still nowhere near as bad as last year, our first year in this old house - over $2,000 a month to heat including $350 a week in propane for one unit alone. So we bought a fireplace insert pellet stove and it's great - so far only bought two refills of propane.

 

[Catalina]

$137.03 for utilities - electric, water and sewer

$27.08 - natural gas -
The average outside temp has been -10.

I keep my house temp at 62 when I'm not at home and turn it "up" to 67 when I'm at home. I have electric heated floors and if my feet are warm it's OK. The main heat is natural gas. I just replaced the furnance and air conditioner last year - $6000 (ouch)
I have a heat lamp, flat panel heater and flat roost heater on 24-7 in the coop. There are also 3 lights on from 8:30am to 8:00pm in the coop, but they're the low energy use curly light bulbs.

edited to add: I also have a single pane picture window (that NEEDS to be replaced!!) in my dining room that leaks cold air.
I think I could save a lot if it was replaced.

In the summer I only use the air conditioner for about one month - when it's over 90.
Also I have an on-demand water heater (natural gas). My bill dropped by at least $75 when I installed it 2 years ago.

In the summer my natural gas averages $12.00 - that includes the $6 base service charge.
The utility bill stays pretty much the same, because I water my garden a lot.

 

[debilorrah]

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OMG!!!!you need to take out a loan. I thought mine was bad.

That didn't include the $600 in propane and the $150 in pellets for the pellet stove.

Still nowhere near as bad as last year, our first year in this old house - over $2,000 a month to heat including $350 a week in propane for one unit alone. So we bought a fireplace insert pellet stove and it's great - so far only bought two refills of propane.

Oh I have lived in the propane hell before and $800 is about average for propane in the winter. At least where I was! HORRID!!! You have my sympathy!

 

[Reinbeau]

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I'm with National Grid (we're east of Rhett&SarahsMom) and my bill has been running less than $70 for months, in August it was $58.00. We do use CFLs everywhere, hubby is a fiend about turning off lights, our heat is FHA via oil, but even then, I only fill the tank 2.5 times per year (I had the house insulated and replaced all the windows years ago, it's nice and tight). The hot water is off propane, that costs about $80 a month. I also hung my clothes all summer, that helped quite a bit.

Rhett&SarahsMom :

Nope. UNITIL.
Sadly my city doesnt seem to care if we are stuck with the thieves. Lunenburg is completely up in arms about the mess here. And its only he beginning of the winter

My sympathies, you guys have had such a horrible time out there, I wonder if they'll be able to oust that company?

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My husband would be dead on the floor if he ever got a bill that high! I'd have the blown in insulation put into that house right away, it's amazing how well that insulates, then you'd have to work on those gorgeous but drafty windows.....we're used to tightening up houses up here, the payback is swift; we heat with oil, and when the price looked like it was heading to $5.00 a gallon we started to look to any more leaks we could plug up!

Oh yea! ETA this past month (Nov. 13-Dec. 11) the bill was $66.72, and yes, I am using the dryer again..​

 

[PurpleChicken]

Last year our electric bill ranged from $200 in the summer to $600 in the
winter. We had electric everything. We are down to $300 now thanks
to switching to propane for some heating. Propane costs me $100 a
month including the barn heat.

Here in CT we pay $.22 per kw. That's almost the highest in the country.

We only have 900 square feet of living space and 250' of barn space.
Our electric hot water heater and clothes dryer uses the most power,
around $130 a month.


For those fascinated with solar panels, just so you know, if I wanted
to produce all my electricity with them I would have to cover not ony my
own roof but half my yard with panels plus spend well over $100,000.

A couple thermal solar panels would be nice though.

 

[1acrefarm]

At .22 cent per kilowatt I would at least install a solar powered clothes dryer. They are very inexpensive to install.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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We have one of those little racks we hang stuff on in the kitchen.
It probably saves us $20 a month.

 

[Sissy]

All electric house 439.00 this month
thinking of changing water heater to propane.
have a pull out clothes line in laundry room,.
also keep temp. at 68 all day and night .and 2 heat
lamps on, for my ladies every so often when it gets really cold.