what on earth does electricity cost near you?

[ericm979]

now they find leaving the Heat Pump on 24/7 is needed because it takes a longtime to warm up from 50 when they are away.

That's normal for heat pumps.They don't have a lot of excess capacity like gas furnaces do.

 

[Looking4new]

610 KWH (the past month) Electricity = $0.09/kwh plus Delivery charge = $57.42 plus Regulatory Charge $4.28 plus HST = $15.39 minus Ontario electricity rebate $15.51 TOTAL= $118.30
With all those charges and minuses I take the total that I shell out of my pocket divided by the total kilowatt hours I used and that is what it co$ts me. 118.30/610=$0.1939344262295082/KWH. From November 1 through April 30th I get 1,000 KWH at his price.
Northern Ontario, Canada

 

[LHF2019]

Here is my running average usage/price.

Year	KW	Price	$/KW
2015	493	$72.37	$0.147
2016	650	$94.59	$0.146
2017	590	$92.06	$0.156
2018	503	$78.88	$0.157
2019	583	$87.06	$0.149
2020	594	$87.78	$0.148
2021	740	$ 107.02	$0.145
2022	741	$117.56	$0.159
2023	748	$142.39	$0.190
2024	485	$106.33	$0.219	Meter	Down	Beginning	of Year
2025	179	$36.42	$0.203

 

[grsthegreat]

My biggest problem…..we use too much kwh per month. Can't figure how to cut down. Have switched to nearly all led lighting. Mostly all gas appliances. I know in the winter i do have some heat tape and heated water troughs that have to be used, but even in Summer its too high.

 

[ultrarunner]

Maybe tracking individual devices with a Kill A Watt?

2500 square feet 1950’s California split level home with single pane windows, no floor insulation and 1960’s garage freezer and 1970’s refrigerator plus electric stove, oven and dryer runs 360 kW each month summer and winter with little variation.

 

[LD1]

Hot water and heating with electric are the biggest users of kwh

Im around 2500kwh/mo in the winter months, ~1200-1300kwh in spring and fall with little to no HVAC and 1800kwh/mo in the summer with AC

Still blows my mind some get down sub-500kwh per month. But 2 kids, lots of laundry, showers, a dusk-dawn security light, 3 fridges and a freezer, a 3600gph goldfish pond pump....we still use quite a bit even taking HVAC out of the equation

 

[LouNY]

just a touch over $0.20 per kwh,
we also use quite a bit of electricity most every month

 

[grsthegreat]

Then again…. I just went into electric heated tack room and wifes garden shed with 3 racks of grow lights for her garden starts and electric heater…..maybe its all her fault

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Ironically, now that we're back in the 20ish°F, I'm using my 18K Mitsubishi Hyper Heat, heat-pump to heat my house (only the upstairs, not my walk-out basement facing the lake) because it costs only about $40-45 a month compared to using my boiler's operating cost with propane and the taco recirculation pump that costs more. I originally installed the heat-pump back in 2016 for my mother's benefit (when she was alive) because I didn't want her to suffer in the summer heat, but eventually experimented on the operating cost of heating the upstairs and letting the downstairs buck (so long as it didn't get freezing temps for the pipes down there) one November just to see what it did cost.

Anyway, I now install heat pumps for people in my area since I bought all the tools and use three-cycles of pressurized nitrogen and vacuum to both test for leaks dry out the mini-split lines (which is what is necessary in order to get the hyper efficient mini-splits down to their crazy efficiency numbers) before filling with 410A.

All to say, go team electric!

Oh, if you do go with a heat-pump and you live where it genuinely gets cold, add the optional heat plate to the outdoor condenser so it cannot freeze up, and for convenience sake a Honeywell remote controller is also nice.

Oh and considering Building HVAC systems use single flares, I HIGHLY suggest using these fun gaskets at the flares even though I make nice flares because they help prevent leaks at the flares.

 

[ponytug]

@MinnesotaEric that sounds great! Thanks for the tip on the seals. Can you elaborate a bit on the nitrogen / vacuum purge process as to why it is particularly important for the Hyper heat systems? (I thought dry was important for all HVAC...)

All the best, Peter