Lowest electric bill ever.

[vangonebuy]

Harold

Mine was 3.3 kWh for 62 days. $62 for 62 days.

Seems like your almost ready to unhitch from the grid.
Cause your paying $18.79 a kwh.

We are offered multiple electric providers in NY. It's not a well run system.
But if you have similar, Maybe you can find someone with a cheaper daily hookup price.
And still stay grid connected.


I'd like to add solar soon.
Big trees gotta go first.

For now, I'll just keep pounding down the efficiency.

[vangonebuy]

PaleMelanesian
Well. I have my lowest electric bill ever, by far.

It's a mistake.

In 2009 my meter was read 7 times instead of 6.
LIPA sent out 13 bills for the year.
When they caught it, They massaged the meter readings over 3 reading periods to squeeze in the extra kwh's they recorded.
Totally screwed up my 2009 numbers. So I just kinda ignore that year.


Hope you have a better estimate.
LIPA also has a higher electric rates for summer.
So for me, It would cost me more if they under read my meter in spring. And fixed it later.

[Harold]

Correction on power usage for 62 days. 333 kWh not 3.3 kWh. Sorry! H

[EVuser]

Originally Posted by Harold

Correction on power usage for 62 days. 333 kWh not 3.3 kWh. Sorry! H

I thought you meant 3.3 per day average. 5.3 per day avg is still nice. I sure couldn't do that without my PV array.

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

(4/2012) A 31 day bill at 469kWh, the lowest yet, knocking .19kW/day off annual consumption.

New 12 month average: 19.51kWh/d (3/2009 24.15kWh/d)
Constant W equivalent 812.8W (3/2009 1006.2W)
Reduction 19.22%, 12.28LEAF miles.
That advances my theoretical LEAF onto a fairly flat stretch of 55mph road. My next target is a theoretical 13.0 miles, where there's an intersection.

[vangonebuy]

INATM
A 31 day bill at 469kWh, the lowest yet, knocking .19kW/day off annual consumption.

WOW!
Your 2012 chart is insane.
A really quick calculation of your savings at my elec. rate is $78 YTD.

Bet they install a new meter very soon.
Congrats.

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Originally Posted by vangonebuy

WOW!
Your 2012 chart is insane.
A really quick calculation of your savings at my elec. rate is $78 YTD.

Bet they install a new meter very soon.
Congrats.

Thanks! The rate here dropped in March from 14.5c/kWh to 13.5c/kWh. But to me it's more about eliminating unnecessary consumption. I hate the waste.

Well, my wife's son not being around as much must be a big chunk of the drop, but these figures are still including a bunch of things that changed late last year. I'm sure the replaced kitchen lights have caused a big drop. Plus, this past weekend I turned off a freezer again* that was hardly ever used, so there should be more to come.

I just keep picking away but I'm running out. Maybe I need to stop using my laptop.

* I'd turned it off a couple of years ago for a few months, but after the Zucchini Bread Incident it was turned back on.

[some_other_dave]

My folks are building a retirement home in Nor Cal. They found out that PG&E would charge them $95K for the privilege of paying several hundred bucks per month for power.

So they're going off-grid, pure 100% solar. They won't be able to sell the power back, but they also won't ever have an electric bill.

-soD

[MN Driver]

I'll have to read through this thread later but my previous month electric bill which was mid-March to mid-April was 115kwh and I've had most months between 115kwh and 140kwh when we aren't in the cooling months. The numbers would be lower if I swapped my energy hungry(as per my kill-a-watt it uses around 50kwh a month in the hotter months) fridge for an energy star one and swapped the electric dryer the previous owners put in this house with a gas dryer(the gas line is already there). My main computer is a laptop, consumes 40 watts when its on and the house and CFLs and FLs in the bedrooms, kitchens, and living areas, incandescents in the areas that are on for less than an hour a week and LEDs in the bathrooms where they have their advantage of directional lighting and because CFLs die from short duration runtimes and close proximity to a sink drain(mercury risk is a bad idea in a bathroom).

$70 is my typical July electric bill of the past two years but I let it get a little warm in the house and sleep in the downstairs bedroom where the temperature is rarely above the mid 70's and use a thin sheet instead of a thick blanket and stay light on clothes. I'll have to come up with a kwh figure but the utility fixed fees are about $10.50 and if I include sales tax and other fees that match the variable kwh number the rate is 11 cents per kwh so a $70 bill is in the mid 500's of kwh or so.

[RedylC94]

Originally Posted by MN Driver

I'll have to read through this thread later but my previous month electric bill which was mid-March to mid-April was 115kwh ... I'll have to come up with a kwh figure but the utility fixed fees are about $10.50 and if I include sales tax and other fees that match the variable kwh number the rate is 11 cents per kwh so a $70 bill is in the mid 500's of kwh or so.

Nearly the same rate here since the recent increase: About $8.71 fixed charges plus 10.67¢/kw-hr. Usage for my similar billing period was 97 kw-hr for 29 days (equivalent to about 102kw-hr per average-length month, or 139 watts average).