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Originally Posted by DoubleF
$20-30 bucks ish based on raw KWH and GJ usage of approx 400KWH and 15GJ ish per month? It's not much, but it still adds up. Maybe it jumps up to $40-50 on a month with a particularly bad cold snap or something?
The numbers are also inexplicably high to me. I've been trying to reduce usage for a while now. I know my usage should be elevated due to a deep freeze and second fridge, but my usage is so much damn higher than "other similar households" that I can't help wonder if there's something else seriously problematic. I might need to get an energy audit to figure out what is truly happening.
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I have given up trying to get mine down to "similar homes". But I also had to bring home a a bunch of networking equipment, server, etc. when our office shut down and went remote. I did it willingly, and I am reimbursed for it, but that ain't helping my efficiency rating!
And my wife is an aquarium aficionado, so we currently have 3 tanks running. Filters, heaters, aerators, etc. all add up.
Ironically, last summer was my first with air conditioning, and I barely noticed a difference vs last summer. I'm sure that there's a cost, and I'm fairly conservative with my use of it (24 is better than 29 in my house, and 21 feels downright freezing), but there was no big spike. It is a fairly efficient unit (SEER 16), but I was still expecting to see that little usage graph spike vs. last year, and it didn't.