what on earth does electricity cost near you?

[dmccarty]

Boggles my mind how you get usage down to 12kwh/day with an electric oven, fridge, and freezer. Cooking a typical meal in the oven for an hour and a side dish on the top is good for half that. And that's just one meal. ...

Our house is all electric and our power bills are pretty consistent since we built the house. Our average daily KWH usage is 42, with the the lowest being 36 and the highest was 46 KWH. The biggest power usage is cooling the house, and/or heating the house, if we don't have wood to burn.

December is often a very expensive power month but the extra cost is from running the large oven and quite a few burners cooking holidays meals Our range has a small "toaster" oven which is the size of the usual pot holder drawer as well as the larger, full size oven. The smaller oven gets used often but the larger oven is used only to cook large meals which usually means a turkey and/or ham. The large oven use really kicks up the power bill even though it is a convection oven which will cook a turkey in 90-120 minutes vs 240 minutes. Course, we are also on vacation so we are running the smaller oven and a burner more often than normal which adds to the power bill. We see the power bill pop up in November due to Thanksgiving which is from using the large oven for one meal.

Later,
Dan

 

[NoTrespassing]

Our house is all electric and our power bills are pretty consistent since we built the house. Our average monthly KWH usage is 42, with the the lowest being 36 and the highest was 46 KWH. The biggest power usage is cooling the house, and/or heating the house, if we don't have wood to burn.

December is often a very expensive power month but the extra cost is from running the large oven and quite a few burners cooking holidays meals Our range has a small "toaster" oven which is the size of the usual pot holder drawer as well as the larger, full size oven. The smaller oven gets used often but the larger oven is used only to cook large meals which usually means a turkey and/or ham. The large oven use really kicks up the power bill even though it is a convection oven which will cook a turkey in 90-120 minutes vs 240 minutes. Course, we are also on vacation so we are running the smaller oven and a burner more often than normal which adds to the power bill. We see the power bill pop up in November due to Thanksgiving which is from using the large oven for one meal.

Later,
Dan

42 KWH per month or 42 KWH per day?

Our lowest usage is about 550 KWH per month when heat and ac is not being used. We have an electric clothes dryer.
Kevin

 

[ultrarunner]

Today it is going to be 60 which is pretty warm for December and I will go split some more firewood. :thumbsup: I should get enough split over the holidays to have enough wood to burn for a good part of the winter. We had a big North Easter a month or so ago that brought down three big trees that I have found so far. Plan to get those cut into rounds, stacked and tarped so we will have plenty of wood next winter. :thumbsup:



Later,
Dan

My sister in law is not a country girl... but she is adjusting.

The old farm/ranch came with a lopi pedestal stove... she was set on getting rid of it.

Now it is her absolute favorite... Mom and I went out when they were away last February for their anniversary and spent a day cutting, splitting and stacking wood maybe a cord and a half finished with plenty of oak left to split. We also sorted the old wood that the previous owners left all over the place.

Now my Sister in Law tells me she can't wait to get home and in front of the stove to do her charts...

With the Christmas season of selling trees I would help out and often head over the house and get a fire going about 4 pm... so it would be nice for her... my brother commented on how nice the fire looks and it is interesting how the flames clean the glass... I take a damp paper towel and wipe it down each time to clean the glass... no flame cleaning here.

 

[dmccarty]

42 KWH per month or 42 KWH per day?

Our lowest usage is about 550 KWH per month when heat and ac is not being used. We have an electric clothes dryer.
Kevin

42KWH per day averaged from throughout the year. Cooling and some heating drives up the KWH quite a bit. We have had 27 KWH days when we were not using the HVAC. My guess is that the kids add 20-30% to the energy usage/bill.

I see where I said monthly but used my daily number. I will try to correct that post but it might be too late. WooHoo! I was able to update the post. :cool2:

Later,
Dan

 

[Lou66]

we live of the gulf coast below Houston, we have a two story house, about 2700 sq. ft. everything is electrical,, except for the generator that is on natural gas, installed about 4 years ago for hurricanes.. used once for 5 hours in that time frame.. other than weekly run for 20 minutes.. 22kw Generac,, anyway our electricity cost us .114 cents kwh,, last month bill was 219 dollars, we used 1925kWh,, avg for a day 64kWh.. in the summer time it will double for as usage also the dollars about.. :laughing:but still .114 cents per kwh..

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My daily average, over a yr, was 41 to 47kwh from 2005 to 2012. Then I switched to geothermal heating from oil, and it went to 57 in 2013, 67 in 2014, 72 in 2015, and 67 in 2016. My overall energy costs are less than when I had oil, but didn't expect geo to add that much to the power usage.

 

[buickanddeere]

While the diesel tractor needs the block heater to start, neither of the trucks require a block heater to start. The truck's block heater is to reduce idle time warming up in the morning before warm air from the defroster will prevent the windshield from fogging or frosting.
Electricity is cheaper than idling a stone cold engine.
We bought a microwave convection over combo when the last microwave quit. Saves dumping as much heat into the house vs the stove oven. Spring & fall and in particular during summer AC season. Heat from light bulbs, fridge, freezer, stove TV's etc are all bonus in the winter and not a "loss".

 

[3930dave]

I have been clearing land to build a new garage / shop at my cottage in Northern Ontario. I have no shortage of wood and am strongly considering installing a rocket mass heater in the new shop for heating. The more I research these things, the more there is to love about them.

rocket stove mass heater

Interesting design, but if your shop will be anything close to air-tight, I'd be really careful testing that - CO is nothing to mess with.

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Happy New Years Day - or, as it's now known here Cap N Trade Day......

Corcoran does his usual excellent job (long read) of detailing how Ontario's electricity market has been destroyed.

Boondoggle: How Ontario逞ｴ pursuit of renewable energy broke the province逞ｴ electricity system | Financial Post

To summarize - Our increases here will continue. Gerald Butts, one of the chief architects of the mess in Ontario now has a key federal position, so these cost structures will be hitting the rest of Canada too.

Good examples of how bad it is at the residential level in rural Ontario:

Go to Financial Post | Canadian Business News, Investing and Commentary and search for 20 Best Reads of 2016

(The link for rural costs (Get these **** rates down !) is about half way down the FP top 20 article. I can't post the direct link w/o it being auto-filtered). Good example of how much costs can vary, even within one province.

Happy Cap N Trade Day !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

At first, this looks like good news here; no increases, for the first time in 9 years. I was thinking the timing made sense..... just the party in power prepping for the next election.....

Ontario electricity rates will remain unchanged, first time in nearly a decade | Globalnews.ca

Then you read past the bafflegab to see that other charges will be going up for some people 3 to 6%.

Rgds, D.