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Old 03-15-2012, 07:34 PM   #1
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I was just wondering what kind of usage people are finding. My bill is really high so I wanted to see what other households were seeing.

Jan 1 to Jan 24 was 859.304 kWh
Dec 22 to Dec 31 was 369.696 kWh

How do you compare?
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Old 03-15-2012, 07:49 PM   #2
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About 1.2 megawatts my last bill. Normally I'm in the 0.8 to 1.2 megawatt range, looking at my historical averages.
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Varied between 2.0 - 3.3 Megawatts a month since last August. I was worried the cops would raid me for hosting a grow-up. It's just a ton of computers doing combinations of folding and mining. On the bright side, I don't have to turn on the heat in the winter, they are generating that much heat.

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932 kWh last month. Typically I'm closer to 1100-1200 in the winter as my garage is heated with electricity. Between vacation and then a mild winter I'm down quite a bit this year.
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In other news, Al Gore's monthly consumption was claimed to be in the range of 16-18 MWh in the mid 2000s.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:42 PM   #6
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We use 1.21 gigawatts
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I used 199 kWh between January 20th - February 15th.

My natural gas is the pricey aspect of my Enamx bill.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:51 PM   #8
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My last bill was 270 kWh on the button. I seem to range between around 240-360 depending on the season.
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Old 03-15-2012, 09:00 PM   #9
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Summer tops out at 1.25 MW thanks to Air Conditioning. Winter average about 500KwH
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144kWh I used in February.

And it still cost me $48.
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Depends what stage the hottie garden is at.
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Old 03-15-2012, 09:37 PM   #12
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Between 750 and 1250 kWh, seemingly at random.
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I shudder to think how much of my electricity is spent drying endless loads of children's clothing.
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I shudder to think how much of my electricity is spent drying endless loads of children's clothing.
Have you thought of putting up a line in your house in your laundry room or basement?
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Thanks for the replies. Sounds like I'm pretty average after all. (Story of my life)
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Just looking at our bill- 480 on the last bill. Over 800 on the last. Strange difference.

Looks like my little graph on the bill shows averages between 450 and about 650. I have a 1000 sq ft up, 1000 down half a duplex.
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542KWh in February cost me $59
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Have you thought of putting up a line in your house in your laundry room or basement?
I don't know how many kids he has, but you would need a really big basement and be constantly hanging stuff to handle the stuff my kids go through. Easily 3/4 of our laundry is little tiny kids clothes. It would be like a part time job just to handle laundry.
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418 kwh last month. Usually around the 400's. Crazy to think a bunch here are triple that!
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418 kwh last month. Usually around the 400's. Crazy to think a bunch here are triple that!
We are a family of four (two boys 8 & 6)

I just can't get over how high the bills have been this year. I've tried LED and Flourecent lights but nothing seems to put a dent in the power bill.
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