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6/17/2015 9:26:15 PM

you have $300+ power bills in the summer?

6/17/2015 9:33:19 PM

I don't even know what would be considered normal. Here's mine for the same period, not including June

05/2015 14.68
04/2015 14.53
03/2015 20.93
02/2015 15.73
01/2015 15.84
12/2014 16.10
11/2014 18.91
10/2014 22.90
09/2014 34.21
08/2014 32.17
07/2014 37.31
06/2014 23.00

6/17/2015 9:43:25 PM

My highest average for a month over the last year is less than your lowest - looks expensive

Even with my wife now staying at home with our kid this past month It was less than half - in Atlanta though

6/17/2015 9:45:58 PM

What's the cost per kWH in raleigh these days?

6/17/2015 10:08:09 PM

PaulISdead

[Edited on June 17, 2015 at 10:09 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2015 10:08:38 PM

Crushed 5kW on the hour over lunch

6/18/2015 1:34:05 PM

I say a big FU to my power company every month I get this email:



Although my power was only $57 that month.

6/18/2015 4:11:40 PM

may 2015 - 385 kWh 1800 sqft

unless you have a 10,000 square foot house that seems high OP

[Edited on June 18, 2015 at 5:22 PM. Reason : a]

6/18/2015 5:17:54 PM

I got up around 100 kWh/day on my March 2015 bill, but that included some cold weather during February when one of my heat pumps was screwed up and my heat strips were running a lot.

6/18/2015 5:24:32 PM

^^^ you have neighbors using 195kWh a month?

Is a mini fridge the only thing they have plugged in?

6/18/2015 5:56:54 PM

Yea I'm finding out a lot of you people only turn the breaker on for four hours after work. Averaged just under 7 this afternoon

6/18/2015 6:10:18 PM

^^Haha I live in a 2 bedroom ~1000 sqft apartment and haven't been running the AC too much. The building is leed certified and has triple pane windows. We were even gone for 11 days that month. I sometimes think that our "energy efficient" neighbors are just vacant apartments.

6/18/2015 6:47:22 PM

Quote :

"I say a big FU to my power company every month I get this email: "

yeah that shit is ridiculous...we're always waaaayy ahead of any neighbors

6/18/2015 6:52:37 PM

I replaced all the bulbs in our apartment with CFLs or LEDs. I do run the AC between about 9pm and 5am because I like sleeping at about 66-68 degrees but in the winter months when we never once turned on the heat the graphs still showed us way ahead of our neighbors. I guess I do have a server running 24/7 and my desktop is on quite frequently. Still odd. Not going to complain too much about $40-60 though.

6/18/2015 6:56:11 PM

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"I do run the AC between about 9pm and 5am because I like sleeping at about 66-68 degrees"

I would LOVE to have the AC that low, but my shit would be $400+ in a place about the same size (2 bed ~1000sqft).

If I could find a god damn studio apartment I'd be in heaven. I have no use for 2 bedrooms and it's just a giant waste of rent and heating/cooling expenses.

[Edited on June 18, 2015 at 7:20 PM. Reason : ]

6/18/2015 7:19:42 PM

Yeah I live in Denver where even if it's 100 degrees during the day it may still drop to 50 at night. Even blasting the AC all last summer at night our energy bill was never over $75.

6/18/2015 7:57:40 PM

I don't know what it was about this place, but the last place I lived in Greenville I left the AC on 70 for months on end and I never paid more than $120 on the worst months. Loved it. It was always comfortable in there.

Where I am now, I didn't run heat or air (AT ALL) for 3 straight months and it was never BELOW 120.

6/18/2015 8:05:02 PM

Getting a wifi thermostat with a schedule helped. It doesn't run during the day and I can turn it off/on remotely if I need to.

6/18/2015 8:28:50 PM

I've considered it.* Most of the time I just turn off the AC when I leave in the morning. I suppose it could help slightly if I had it automatically turn off 30min-hour earlier. If it weren't wasting energy cooling half the fucking house I don't use, that'd be great




*Actually considered making one from arduino parts for shits and giggles

6/18/2015 8:33:39 PM

You can always close some vents in rooms you don't need cooled. Depending on how the HVAC runs are set up this might reduce energy consumption. Sometimes this can make the system less efficient too though and increase it.

6/18/2015 8:39:47 PM

What's your square footage? (Energy guy can't help but do his energy thing)

6/18/2015 9:34:30 PM

Mine? It's 1,076.

6/18/2015 11:07:36 PM

Meter Read Date Avg. Daily Usage
6/8/15 79
5/5/15 44
4/6/15 70
3/5/15 191
2/4/15 172
1/6/15 134
12/5/14 92
11/3/14 52
10/6/14 67
9/4/14 77
8/5/14 59
7/3/14 113
6/5/14 61

~4000 sq ft. + heated/cooled garage

6/19/2015 12:32:25 AM

Man some of y'all have huge carbon footprints.

6/19/2015 10:07:22 AM

dont you brag about your constant international travel LOL

6/19/2015 10:23:15 AM

Honkey, a little over 3

6/19/2015 10:50:44 AM

6/8/15 15.9
5/7/15 10.1
4/9/15 9.8
3/9/15 11.7
2/6/15 10.5
1/8/15 17.7 <--- not really sure what happened here.
12/8/14 10.3
11/6/14 10.8
10/8/14 13.5
9/8/14 19.9
8/7/14 20.2
7/9/14 22.5
6/10/14 12.9

This for an EnergyStar rated 1800 sq ft 2 story 3 bedroom house with 2 occupants. Natural gas for HW and heating. In cooler months t'stat set to 63°, warmer months 73°. Located in Raleigh.

6/19/2015 1:45:08 PM

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"dont you brag about your constant international travel LOL"

I bike 3-4 days a week and take the light rail the other times. I barely ever drive anywhere unless it's into the mountains on the weekends. Not to mention planes per person are more fuel efficient depending on the trip length than driving single occupancy in a car.

6/19/2015 2:00:47 PM

Hey its cool man. I don't give 2 shits about carbon footprints.

And yet it also appears I have the lowest one here (for my house at least)

6/19/2015 2:35:20 PM

Yeah I was kidding. Haha.

6/19/2015 4:04:33 PM

2100 sqft, vaulted ceiling over living room (don't ever do vaulted ceiling)

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6/19/2015 5:29:30 PM