Interesting thread... I'd say that's a lot of energy use for minimal use of the electric heat, and what sounds like pretty painstaking care to reduce the bill.
Based on a quick rough calculation, it looks like you're using an average of over 2 kWh per hour (2.1 or so), around the clock, which seems pretty high for light use of the resistive heating. Put another way, you've essentially got the equivalent of a 1500 watt heater running nonstop, plus some other more minor energy use. Perhaps thinking of it that way might provide some insight.
How much would you say the dehumidifiers are running (I saw the 12 hour figure, but how much of the time do the compressors run)? And what size/wattage are they? I wonder if those aren't a good chunk of your energy usage.
I'd guess that there's no way small things like turning down the TV brightness or swapping out a freezer bulb with an LED would have much of an impact at all compared to running three dehumidifiers, particularly if they're large/inefficient, or if they run a lot of the time (for example, if all three ran continuously, at 500 watts a piece, that'd be the lion's share of your energy use right there).
Based on a quick rough calculation, it looks like you're using an average of over 2 kWh per hour (2.1 or so), around the clock, which seems pretty high for light use of the resistive heating. Put another way, you've essentially got the equivalent of a 1500 watt heater running nonstop, plus some other more minor energy use. Perhaps thinking of it that way might provide some insight.
How much would you say the dehumidifiers are running (I saw the 12 hour figure, but how much of the time do the compressors run)? And what size/wattage are they? I wonder if those aren't a good chunk of your energy usage.
I'd guess that there's no way small things like turning down the TV brightness or swapping out a freezer bulb with an LED would have much of an impact at all compared to running three dehumidifiers, particularly if they're large/inefficient, or if they run a lot of the time (for example, if all three ran continuously, at 500 watts a piece, that'd be the lion's share of your energy use right there).