Went from $0.48 to $0.88 per therm
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Not gas but my electric department tripled their fuel surcharge that they charge per kwh a few months ago without telling anybody. My light/gas/water bill was almost more than my mortgage for several months. To answer your question, my gas is figured by units (one unit = 100 cubic feet) and it is $1.17 per unit
I would literally kill to have an electric bill this low.
I spent 2 days earlier this year splitting firewood. I use a cast iron wood stove to heat most of my house. My utility bill has never been so low.
Now if I can figure out how to train the wife to turn of a light when she leaves the room, I’ll really be on to something.
Now if I can figure out how to train the wife to turn of a light when she leaves the room, I’ll really be on to something.
2 years ago in every closet, storage room, the washroom, attic and garage I installed $10 motion detect light switches from Amazon.
It saved my marriage.
Going to LED bulbs knocked our electric bill way down.
changed out the thermostats to programmable ones that I can see on my phone and can change the schedule easily. That saved on gas and electricity.
Lightning hit somewhere close to our house 4-5 months ago. It fried every LED in the house. Which was most of them. All the old school bulbs were unharmed. I spent $200+ replacing all of them. It'll take me 5 years to recoup.
I got good news for you, if you murder someone and get caught you get electricity for free.
That’s weird. Lightning hit the house two doors down last year and didn’t mess with any of mine.
Brand new Xbox Series X was toasted, garage door opener, and my ring doorbell. Luckily Microsoft replaced my xbox for free.
Speaking of saving marriages, I've got everything lined out to put one of these in our bedroom early next year, and I'm counting down the days. There has been nothing as taxing on our relationship during the last 2-3 years than my wife's desire to spin our electric meter like a dreidel when we go to bed every night. Every... single... night
LG put these out at some point in the last year, and it's a really cool option for those wanting hugely efficient heating/cooling for a small area without having to hang an absolute eye sore on the wall. Well, less of an eye sore at least
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That's just my natural gas. Electric is separate. 3 AC/furnaces, 2 gas hot water heaters, gas logs, gas stove/oven. Typical hot weather is electric $200-$250 / gas <$100. Flip the script in really cold weather months, which we don't get many of.
Switch to LED lights, at 5w you can run them all day for practically nothing.
Better worry about the SEER rating on your overall HVAC system along with having variable speed fans and overall important elmination of air leaks and insulation. Penny of prevention is worth a pound of a problem.
I tell everyone, just go around your house, sealing up holes as the first step. $
Second, look at your insulation, if you can improve it, do it. $$
Third your system efficiency. $$$$
Then just cutting things off when not needed. Adjust your air conditioning to 72 instead of 68. Turn your heating to 67 instead of 72.
Insulation and air leaks are huge for hot humid areas like Mississippi.
I'm guessing that's what covers all the pipelines/lines to your house? I don't especially love it either but I ain't trying to chop firewood a few days a year like jeathroux. I cut firewood a few times and discovered I wasn't cut out for it.
Lightning does what it wants. It hit across the street behind a neighbor's house years ago. Did nothing to them. Blew up lots of my stuff.
I do levelized billing w/ Atmos for my gas in Starkville and its ranges from $60-$70 per month. I have gas heat, gas stove, and old style gas water heater.
There is a certain amount of overhead to maintain the whole supply network, people, etc. It's not like they can stop doing maintenance or layoff staff in down months.
Yes it does. I have been paying that at my house for 17 years. I use gas three months and pay for 12 months.
That's basically your demand charge. If you want gas available, you have to help pay for the infrastructure. Not saying it's calculated fairly. But it doesn't seem like it would be way off. Costs money to have pipes in the ground and do maintenance and repairs.
The other thing is windows. I ended up cutting windows out of my house when I realized that basically it didn't matter what else you did energy efficiency wise if you have a lot of windows. Not the wall of windows I would like, but still plenty of light and combined gas and electric never gets more than high $200's.
I live outside the city limits so I am on propane which runs my tankless heater and stove. Everything else is electric. My electric bill due end of the month is $176. In the heart of summer it will get between $250-$300.
Ask your electric company about installing a whole home surge suppressor.
This means you need to switch to solar or else.....or else next year they'll make sure it quintuples.
The only problem I know if with the whole home systems, is that until someone comes home and flips the switch to reset it, no power gets in. As long as it doesn't happen when your on a trip you should be fine, and if you have any type of monitoring for your home, you could just call a neighbor then and ask them to flip the switch.
Can’t find the exact ones now but there are tons of them. These look very similar.
TOPELER Motion Sensor Light Switch, Neutral Wire Required, Single Pole in Wall Occupancy Sensor Switch for CFL/LED/Incandescent Bulb, Screwless Wall Plate Included, White, UL Listed FCC Approved https://a.co/d/6ImJAgG