Your energy consumption

[Volvo_ST1]

I heat with gas and cook with electricity. I conserve as much as I reasonably can without being obsessive about it. My February-to-March bill shows the following figures:

Gas: 7.86 Therms; cost including all fees is $37.56
Electricty: 107.86 Kwh, cost including all fees is $16.64
Total cost is $57.44

How much gas and electricity do you use? I don't care if you live in a shanty or in a mansion.

 

[rjundi]

Unfortunately I use home heating oil (untaxed diesel) in a 2800 SF older home.

I use about 900 gallons/year for heat and hot water for 66F. It is very $$$ this year at $3.60+/gallon

However I think the average this winter is gallon before turmoil hit.

I supplment with a 1.5 cords of free wood in woodstove but its more for comfort than heat source.

 

[Volvo_ST1]

Could you convert the oil heating to biomass or wood pellet fuel? If so, would that be worth it in the long run?

 

[huffmuds9320]

This is my last month's bill. Stoves and water heater are gas. I don't use the central heating much, only used a couple of days in a year.

Gas: 48 Therms, $27.42
Electricity: 634 Kwh, $117.73
Total (including taxes and surcharges): $149.38

 

[HTSS_TR]

Originally Posted By: Volvo_ST1
I heat with gas and cook with electricity. I conserve as much as I reasonably can without being obsessive about it. My February-to-March bill shows the following figures:

Gas: 7.86 Therms; cost including all fees is $37.56
Electricty: 107.86 Kwh, cost including all fees is $16.64
Total cost is $57.44

How much gas and electricity do you use? I don't care if you live in a shanty or in a mansion.



Originally Posted By: rjundi
Unfortunately I use home heating oil (untaxed diesel) in a 2800 SF older home.

I use about 900 gallons/year for heat and hot water for 66F. It is very $$$ this year at $3.60+/gallon

However I think the average this winter is gallon before turmoil hit.

I supplment with a 1.5 cords of free wood in woodstove but its more for comfort than heat source.

My 1970 4-BR 2850 SQ/FT house is heat with gas, gas is also for water heater and cook. Last month the cost was $3x for gas and $2x electricity. In the summer the gas cost can be as low as mid-teen while the cost of electricity is the same mid-twenty.

 

[NJC]

How about a yearly energy consumption expense, with an optional cost per square foot thrown in?

That's not accounting for bodies in those square feet or local climate, but it's more relevant.

 

[unDummy]

1779 kwh = $285.63 That is only about 2/3's of what it was a year ago. Mega conservation taking place in this shanty.

I just can't wait to get a fleet of Volt's for the family. Woohoo

 

[Volvo_ST1]

Originally Posted By: NJC
How about a yearly energy consumption expense, with an optional cost per square foot thrown in?

That's not accounting for bodies in those square feet or local climate, but it's more relevant.


Well, I wanted to simply know energy consumption during your last billing period. You are free to make a thread and ask for more data points.

 

[Volvo_ST1]

Originally Posted By: unDummy
1779 kwh = $285.63 That is only about 2/3's of what it was a year ago. Mega conservation taking place in this shanty.

I just can't wait to get a fleet of Volt's for the family. Woohoo



Do you use only electricity? Do you have a Smart Meter installed?

 

[mikiee]

Mine in central MO was: $70 for gas furnace and water heater and $25 for electricity in 2 story brick house built in 1946. Come on Springtime!

 

[Colt45ws]

We only have electricity.
$199.5 for 5311 kW/h in January. That tends to be a peak month.

 

[Shannow]

$40/MWhr ?

Amazing...it's $220/MWHr here retail, and $25-35 wholesale.

 

[SevenBizzos]

1600ft2 house with two people.

Electricity (February) - 29 days - 437kwh - $53.78
Gas (February) - 31 days - 133.05 therms - $99.64

$150 a month for both is normal for winter and summer. It's less than $100 when we're not cooling or heating. The furnace tends to run a lot when it below zero outside...

We using 4X more electricity and 20X more gas. Climate might account for some of that...

 

[unDummy]

Electricity for heat, hot water, A/C, cooking, hobbies... No complex smart meter. Just dumb abusers.

 

[Volvo_ST1]

I thank those who actually answer my question, which is, how many Therms and/or Kwh did you use during your last billing period?

 

[Quest]

Interesting observations.

Dunno how to convert Joules to Therm but in my house (North of Seattle, in case you wonder), last month alone we consumed 11.2 GigaJoules of natural gas. Electricity wise it was 635kW/h over the course of 57 days (we pay every 2 mnths), which works out to approx. 11.14kW/hr worth of electricity/day avg.

This is a house built to 2004 code, 2100 sq ft 2-storey and family of 4.

Just moved in a couple of mnths ago.

Q.

 

[PandaBear]

This month is kind of cold, so 54 therm in gas and 314 kwh in electric, I've always been under the baseline.

 

[Shannow]

Gas is a therm a day average (0.5 per day summer, 1.5 winter), $1,200 p.a.

Electricity, about 7-8KWHr/day average, $1,200 p.a.

Diesel 900L p.a. $1,200 p.a.
Petrol 1400L p.a $1,960 p.a.

Propane (BBQ) 60lb p.a. $100
Charcoal (BBQ) 60lb p.a. $60 (for fake, $150 for genuine, I use around 50:50).

Butane/propane blends around 2 lb p.a.about $10

 

[crinkles]

all electric for us and about 22 kw.hr/day, which is way too high for my liking, but we rent, so we are disempowered to do anything about replacing electric hot water, installing solar panels, etc... maybe $450 per qaurter so $1800 per year.

We do pay the idiots' tax and buy about 17 kW.hr/day in renewable energy sources.

also used about 1800 L of petrol in the last year. maybe $2300.

also used about 120 - 150 L water per person per day.

 

[The_Jeff]

As a home heating oil user not paying on a monthly interval (eg filling the tank when I need it and feel the price is right) I can't directly answer your question. Best question is how much #2 fuel I use per winter; answer is around 425 gallons. Also go through about 2 cord of wood.

Electric is around $75/mo at 16 cents per KWh, year-round. Inefficient fridge and dump-found full-size freezer compensate for line drying clothes in warm weather.