Price of Electricity

[rc1626]

How much does it take to run your setup? How much do you pay a KWH (Kilowatt Hour)? Here on Long Island we are up to .20 a KWH. Absolutely insane. My electric bill for this month - $600 and I live in a 1400 sq. ft. ranch currently running 0 Christmas lights.
Our lighting companies balanced budgeting program doesn't take into affect the huge soar in operational costs due to oil and gas prices going through the roof so when the end of the year comes around and we've used more electric than initially budgeted it's time to pay up. Sorry, just venting.

I figure my tank is probably costing me about $70 -$80 a month. Well worth it in my eyes but still completely insane.

What are you paying a KWH? Probably some out there paying more than us LI folks......just wondering.

Thanks for listening.
Rob

 

[drew2005]

Dude u need to light some candles. $600 is out of control for a month. Im on a budget plan and my bill is no where near half of what ur paying. My budget is $120 a month. Even without a budget i dont think im much over the $200 mark. I figured my tank to cost around $30 a month to run. $600 seems very high IMO.

 

[rc1626]

Candles would be good. Can you suggest some good ones? All kidding aside as I sit here and think about it, we run an electric oven (my wife cooks all the time - not a bad thing at all) and an electric clothes dryer. Both are huge electricity suckers. Put that with running 2 large window AC units for about 3 months and you have major electricity usage. Our monthly budget from Dec. 06 to March 07 was $190. By Oct. 07 to Nov. 07 it was up to $487. Our projected annual energy costs for next year are $3,385 for a new balanced billing amount of $283. Not $600 but still crazy.
The $600 bill doesn't represent actual readings from the month of December, rather it is Decembers budgeted amount plus what we have gone over in electrical usage mainly during the last couple of months of the summer into the fall. $600 is certainly not a regular monthly bill by no means but it is what it is and unfortunately it has come right before the holidays. $283 - our projected monthly budget for next year, although reasonably priced in comparison to $600 is still rather excessive I think. Your thoughts? Again I go back to not just maybe and increase in electrical use on my part but the rising costs of electricity itself. I'm still very curious to find out what other parts of the country are paying per KWH?
Rob

 

[m0nk]

I never actually look at usage, but my bill is usually around $100 ... I have oil heat with the exception of two rooms upstairs (2 of the 3 bedrooms) and have electric panels up there which I use at night, and central air in the summer.... and the $100 is average all year. I also do have a tendency to leave a computer running in my home office 24/7 (just starting to put an end to that practice) and will have a 180 gallon going in at the end of january with 4x175w MH and nearly 720w of VHO, with lighting controller, return pump, all that jazz, so I'm expecting it to go up a bit. But, I'd say right now, only about $20 goes towards my 2 existing tanks.

 

[tangman99]

That is nuts! I pay 8.5 cents a kilowatt hour for the first X kilowatt hours and then a higher rate for overage. I always go also.
My average electric for a month is around $300.00 including my overage rate. I am an all electric home running washer, dryer, dishwasher, waterheater, Stove, Heat/cooling for 3200 SF home (5 ton unit for downstairs, 3 ton unit for upstairs), Heatpump for swimming pool, pool pump, two refrigerators, 720 Watts of light for my tank, two Mag 7s and vortech pump running 24/7. Not to bad I guess when I think about it.

 

[renogaw]

you're getting hosed... your kwh price is inane high, but what's your usage, and is it wrong? Connecticut is having major issues with our electric company and faulty meters. every week a consumer agency is on the headlines about how horrid the electric company is to deal with.

 

[stdreb27]

Between a washer dryer hot water heater, used daily, a fridge lights tv computer never turned off, and my tank with t-5's but no AC I got a 50 dollar electric bill!

 

[petjunkie]

Mine's around $90 bucks a month usually.

 

[theappe3]

in florida its .11 kwh

 

[renogaw]

i'd say ours is about $180 a month in ct.
you guys down south and in hick ville cannot compare your electric bills with us up north

 

[darknes]

I pay 7 cents a kilowatt-hour here in Colorado.

 

[jtrzerocool]

i have 3 tanks running ont my house(135g freshwater, 50g Reef, and 55g FOWLR)...and all the necessary appliances, tv, ect...i think i paid like $86 last month...but during the summer(when its 100 degreed plus for 14 days strait) we have got it as high as $270...

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by renogaw
i'd say ours is about $180 a month in ct.
you guys down south and in hick ville cannot compare your electric bills with us up north
That is because your system sucks, ours works.

 

[rc1626]

Here on LI it's the great old LIPA (Long Island Power Authority) formerly known as LILCO. This wonderful company spent a gazillion dollars about 15 -20 years ago building a nuclear power plant that was never officially approved by the town, county, state whatever.... Anyway it still sits on the north shore of Suffolk county not being used. Who do you think payed and is still paying for that one??
If you live here on LI you know everything is more expensive. Insurance, home prices, gasoline, oil, electricity, etc.. And yes we are currently paying .20 KWH not counting peak usage and overage charges. And yes it is INSANE.

Rob

 

[reefraff]

I have a 1660SF house, 1140 up, 520 down (finished basement) Livingroom ceiling fan runs 24/7 I am home all the time so the big screen TV is always on. 105 gallon tank. Oh, 11x8 11 person Hot Tub on the patio. The bill from like Novemeber to December 4th just came, $142 and change.......... That includes natural gas

The electric base rate is .031 and with add-ons comes to about 5 cents according to xcels website. It's going up 2.6 cents January 1st

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by rc1626
Here on LI it's the great old LIPA (Long Island Power Authority) formerly known as LILCO. This wonderful company spent a gazillion dollars about 15 -20 years ago building a nuclear power plant that was never officially approved by the town, county, state whatever.... Anyway it still sits on the north shore of Suffolk county not being used. Who do you think payed and is still paying for that one??
If you live here on LI you know everything is more expensive. Insurance, home prices, gasoline, oil, electricity, etc.. And yes we are currently paying .20 KWH not counting peak usage and overage charges. And yes it is INSANE.

Rob
That is twice as much as in houston. Moron tree huggers, they won't be happy till we no longer use electricity but live like they did during the roman empire. You can't build coal powerplants, you can't build hydroelectric plants, wind farms kill birds, nuclear powerplants we just don't like them.

 

[kjr_trig]

Rob that is horrible man...$600 in November!!

We have a 3500 square foot house in Phoenix and the worst month we had was $450 in July and we thought we had it bad! It was 150 degrees every day that month (ok it just seemed like it, more like 115). Ours has a lot to do with peak and non-peak usage.

 

[renogaw]

Originally Posted by jtrzerocool
i have 3 tanks running ont my house(135g freshwater, 50g Reef, and 55g FOWLR)...and all the necessary appliances, tv, ect...i think i paid like $86 last month...but during the summer(when its 100 degreed plus for 14 days strait) we have got it as high as $270...

what's your kwh usage? i just checked my bill and it's saying over 1000 kwh and that seems high for a 2000-2400 (depending on how you count the finished basement) colonial.

 

[jtrzerocool]

Originally Posted by renogaw
what's your kwh usage? i just checked my bill and it's saying over 1000 kwh and that seems high for a 2000-2400 (depending on how you count the finished basement) colonial.
Tier 1 rate - 0.079800
Tier 2 rate - 0.141300
and i checked my bill and it was $84.63 last month

 

[stdreb27]

During the summer at my old shack, a 2000 kw month was not unlikely. Fortunately my new place actually has insulation and sealed windows doors ect.