Whats Your Electric Bill???

[TitansFan]

My electric bill seems to be growing and growing. Its getting quite gross. Im curious to see what kind of electric bills you guys are experiencing. If you are willing to tell square footage and if your heat/ac is gas or electric it would make it more comparable. I want to see if I am just way out of line or not. Where did the under a hundred dollar electric bills go??????
House 1400 square feet
gas heat/cooking.
electric a/c
bill=$294.56

[ct_vol]

House 1500 sq ft
gas heat/cooking
electric a/c
bill = $350 electric/water/sewer
$40 gas

I burn wood to keep my gas bill down...

Stupid tanks... ;)

[tommy patton]

house 2000 sq ft
electric everything 360.00
water 80.00 every two months

[TitansFan]

Wow looking at your guys tanks I guess I don't have much to complain about. It just hurts to think I have a car payment in electric bills. Time for a deltec ecochiller and some solar tubes for lighting I guess.

Keep them coming.

[ct_vol]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13973545#post13973545 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TitansFan
Time for a deltec ecochiller and some solar tubes for lighting I guess.


Thats for hippies... ;) I figure my 4 250w MH's and 3x150w MH's have something to do with my electric bill... lol :D BTW I also drive a GMC 2500HD... Energy conservation isn't my strongsuit...

[Indy2008]

1750 sq feet
Electric:325.00 avg month
Gas:450.00 avg month
water:175.00 avg month

[TitansFan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13973584#post13973584 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ct_vol
\Energy conservation isn't my strongsuit...

I guess that wouldn't be for someone with hobbies such as reefs, guns, and drinking. I hope you don't do them all at once. ;)

[Bill Cobb]

2400 sq. ft. house all electric w/3 ton heatpump using well water.

950 sq. ft. shop w/1 ton heat pump next to house where we run our business.

$750.00 electric bills including tanks.

[TitansFan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13973603#post13973603 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Indy2008
1750 sq feet
Electric:325.00 avg month
Gas:450.00 avg month
water:175.00 avg month

Holy wow!!! gas=450?? and 175=water? How is gas costing you 450? And does your ro machine have a leak if you are running 175 month for water? I think my water is running $80 month.

[ct_vol]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13973651#post13973651 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TitansFan
I guess that wouldn't be for someone with hobbies such as reefs, guns, and drinking. I hope you don't do them all at once. ;)

Unfortunately you can't even mix two of them... Let alone all three... ;)

There was a thread somewhere about people drinking and doing stupid things to their tanks... I found it thoroughly amusing... :)

[Indy2008]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13973669#post13973669 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TitansFan
Holy wow!!! gas=450?? and 175=water? How is gas costing you 450? And does your ro machine have a leak if you are running 175 month for water? I think my water is running $80 month.
I asked myself the same about the water, called and complained to the water company they had several price increases this past year, I have no leaks anywhere, for the Gas everything is gas except of course the lights, my house was built in 1918 it has been remodeled except for the back part of the house I keep it around 73 in winter months, summer time it runs about 80.00 a month, so I expect it every year.

[Freed]

Heat: gas and electric
water heater: gas
1200 sq. ft
gas bill every month: $72
electric bill last month for 2200 KWHs: $85 er so

[Michael Brumit]

1800 sq. ft.
electric everything 280-300 plus got a little added bonus this month from TVA of almost $50 for fuel cost. I really liked that as if it wasn't high enough already.

[Freed]

Time of use meter for electric and
Capped pricing for natural gas.
Can't beat it. :D

[cczarnik]

Got my bill last night, price was so high was going to start my own thread :D.

2250 sq ft, Electric $280 (including a $54 surcharge), no idea what gas will be, prob another $80 or so.

Heat pumps w/ gas auxillary on one circuit, gas water heater and logs, otherwise electric. Going to get a kill-a-watt and figure out just how much $$ this tank is costing me.

[DMBillies]

Didn't NES just have a 25% rate hike?

In our townhouse in AC our bill was regularly around $200. Don't know the sq ft. but I do know our AC almost never shut off in summer and we only turned our heat on about 2-3 nights per year.

[undertcontrolj]

My electric bill for a bout 1500 square feet averages out to be about $180 (electric). Variance of $20. And i stay very cool in the summer and toasty in the winter. Look into getting a programmable thermostat. That should help bring the bills down a little bit, hopefully anyway. Water is usually around 50.

[rsteagall]

$300-$400 per month. Electric everything.

and

5 refrigerators/freezers
4 computers always on
1 hot tub (6 person)

:P

[gflat65]

2200 sq ft
~$450 per month (got a couple of tanks;))

I calculated my electrical usage on all of the tanks (except little pest tanks I set up here and there for big crabs and funky snails, etc.) monthly and annually. I'm hoping to be able to justify solar for the tank (and add on as I can for the house).

I made guesses on amp draw based on W and 110V, but should be a decent ballpark.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/gflat65/elecusage.jpg

[ai-reefer]

10000 sq ft
$500 - $700

I heard that the PS3 takes as much power as a fridge.

[james3370]

shouldn't the thread title be Watts your electric bill????

LOL

i don't even want to think about what mine will be once i get my new build done.....might make me re-think stuff hahahaha

[crumbletop]

3200 sq ft

Gas Heat
Electric everything else

Electric bill avg ~$120/month (high ~180, low ~80). Most recent bill was $118.
I've got a 90, a 24 and a 29. T5 lighting, low watts Tunze for flow, low watts Tunze for skimmer. No chiller.

[Pickupman66]

1400 sqft
electric everyting.
$180 to $200

then again, I have a program thermo that never gets above 68.
and a gas fireplace that the wifey likes to run.

[supertech99]

1600sqft
no gas
$250-$390
space heater in garage for cats on 24/7 in winter
thermostat kept at 67 in winter

[Reefdiver77]

1800 sq ft. All electric with heatpump. Use wood in fireplace insert all winter. Last electric bill was $280. Water usually $18-20. Upstairs heatpump out for a few year now. So we have a small space heater in the computer room, where 2 of my tanks are and a baseboard heater in our bedroom that we run at night on very cold nights.

[teamreefers]

Electric + Gas = $400-$475

2200 sq ft
Central gas heat downstairs
Heat pump upstairs
Heat pump addition
Electric space heater frag room

Jack

[undertcontrolj]

this month my bill was 40 dollars more than normal thanks to the TVA price hike. My dad works for TVA and said they swill be going back down in January. Something about they have reduced their fuel costs.

[supertech99]

yeah i noticed that too, i jumped like 70 bucks! it hurt too being that its right after christmas!

[waynesworld]

Well mine jumped too I paid $340 in Nov and jumped to over $450 in Dec that is 4200 sq ft everything is elec and I have 6 girls in the house. :(

[eyebedam]

2000 sq ft electric AC 275.00 mo

[poolkeeper1]

Just got my Electric bill and they added an extra 32.00 and change to the regular bill which brought it to almost 180.00 and that's not too bad for Dec and two tanks plus heating my garage to keep my new 100gal sump warm, plus 1650sf of living space and outside lights for Christmas! Oh yeah and two big screens 24/7. think i got off pretty good, hope they didn't make a mistake.

[HollieR14]

3900 square feet. we keep it pretty warm in the winter about 68-70 degrees (we are florida natives and freezing here) have a 90 gal tank standard equipment, gas heat, gas hot water heater, electric everything else and all together no mare than 350 per month. I have a great heating a/c guy if anyone needs one.

[digidana]

i think we're about 4000 sf, and just got our bill a couple days ago. i about fell over. $845. everything is electric, and we have a well.

[mltmtascp]

We have all electric 3600sf and our was over $500. Yikes. I would have die at $845. This is like paying a second mortagage.

[boosted306]

2500 sqf

Elec. everything

29T with T5, heater, eheim, powerhead, etc.

Electric bill was 270 this past month.

[travish]

2500 sq ft
elec everything
350.00 including energy hike!!! geez its killin me. use to be 200.00