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Seuss
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Cost of electric power?
#8706350 - 07/31/08 07:57 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm curious what people in other parts of the world are paying for electric power? Down here, I am paying right at $0.50 per kilowatt hour (50 cents per kwh). If I run an additional fan, my electric bill goes up about $15 per month. If I run a single room air conditioner, at night only, my electric bill goes up nearly $350. My average monthly usage is around 120 kwh leaving me a $60 electric bill. The US average monthly usage is around 1000 kwh per household. What do you guys pay for electricity, and how much do you use a month?
Oh, and for those that follow the great 'profit' Al Gore... he used 191,000 kilowatt hours of power in 2006, compared to my 1,440 kilowatt hours. Thanks Al! I am really glad that I have people like you telling people like me how to conserve. After 132 years, I will have finally used as much electrical energy as Al Gore did in 2006.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8706475 - 07/31/08 08:57 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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We are using about 1200 kwh of electricity a month...but ours only costs $0.05-$0.06 per kwh.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: trendal]
#8706841 - 07/31/08 11:14 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I used 1570 kWh last month at a cost of $184.00. Divided out that is $0.117 per kWh.
During the summer here the cost per kWh goes up alot because they have to turn on the natural gas plants to supplement the nuclear power plant.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8706857 - 07/31/08 11:18 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm using probably 10 times the power that you do Seuss. You only use 120Kw a month? My last bill had an average of 44.7 a day! But thats the cost of living comfortable in the desert. A/C is expensive and when it is 110+ out you don't have a choice (if you want to be comfortable, that is.) My power consumption drops drmatically in the winter. Probably by 70%.
At least our power is cheper then yours. About 10 cents a Kw. That still adds up to about $150 power bills in the heat of summer.
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Seuss
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: ToTheSummit]
#8706919 - 07/31/08 11:33 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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> You only use 120Kw a month?
I run a clock, a refrigerator (new, on warmest setting), one fan (when I am home), a low power computer /w lcd (total consumption around 75 watts), microwave oven, water pump (no city water), and a hot water heater (5gal, on coolest setting). All of my lights are low power fluorescent, and I hardly ever turn them on. My stove is propane, and I have used less than 100lbs of gas over the last two years.
> but ours only costs $0.05-$0.06 per kwh.
Wow! No wonder people are interested in electric cars and can afford to grow indoors.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8706978 - 07/31/08 11:50 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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In Austria a kWh costs around 0.13€(0.20 USD).
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Seuss
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Anno]
#8708551 - 07/31/08 05:16 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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> In Austria a kWh costs around 0.13€(0.20 USD).
Any idea how much an average Austrian home uses per month?
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8708568 - 07/31/08 05:19 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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In Texas we usually have the ability to chose our provider , some limits if the provider is a municipality.
In Hot ass Dallas, TX last month mine was $132.08, @13.2 cents/kWh, with a total of 993/KWh.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8708811 - 07/31/08 06:26 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I used 2880 at $.145 and most of that is for air conditioning. I keep it 68F/20C inside and it's in the 90s/32C through hurricane season. The price is low because we have a nuclear plant nearby.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8709110 - 07/31/08 07:37 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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last month was 178 kwh at $0.07 the refrigerator runs all the time my computer and the swap cooler run in the evening except weekends.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: sherm]
#8710757 - 08/01/08 03:47 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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> last month was 178 kwh
Somebody else in my ballpark range. The blower on your cooler is probably a significant chunk of the difference between our usage.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8710878 - 08/01/08 05:58 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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According to this site
http://oesterreich.orf.at/stories/80257/
The average household use in 2006 was 4700 kWh per year, this is 392 kWh per month.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8711902 - 08/01/08 12:15 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Seuss said: > You only use 120Kw a month?
I run a clock, a refrigerator (new, on warmest setting), one fan (when I am home), a low power computer /w lcd (total consumption around 75 watts), microwave oven, water pump (no city water), and a hot water heater (5gal, on coolest setting). All of my lights are low power fluorescent, and I hardly ever turn them on. My stove is propane, and I have used less than 100lbs of gas over the last two years.
dang, if i had that low of power consumption, i'd be investigating some methods to get off the grid.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Nephlyte]
#8713121 - 08/01/08 04:42 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Here, the first 1000 kwh is cheaper than everything over that. It goes up about 2 cents a kwh over 1000. I think it's 12 cents over 1000 and about a dime under that with the meter charge and all the bs they add on.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Stonehenge]
#8713181 - 08/01/08 05:01 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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com ed in chicago is around .089 kwh
however, i just moved and will be running my new house off of the grid on a vegetable oil powered diesel 3000KWH power generator.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8714570 - 08/01/08 11:57 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Starting on May 1, 2008, the regulated price plan (RPP) tiered prices will remain at 5.0 cents per kWh up to 600 kWhs per 30 days and 5.9 cents per kWh for consumption above the 600 kWh threshold. For residential consumers, this monthly threshold is set at 1,000 kWh from November to April and at 600 kWh from May to October.
I'm in a major city in a major province....in major Canada. 
I like to be nature friendly, but I'm absolutely guilty of 2 things: Energy hog, and water hog. Especially water. I take long showers, i run the water while shaving, etc etc. I leave my PC on during the night to crunch away at folding. I have no idea how much energy we use a month, I'm in an apartment atm.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: RuNE]
#8715991 - 08/02/08 11:56 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I should probably add that Canadians are somewhat trying to be leaders in going green however. I keep reading articles on it in the papers. Most people are using CFL's now for lighting, and low water usage toilets (I think both had government funded exchange programs going...I know they offered rebates for new toilets a while ago, maybe still). That's actualy what I like about this gov. They'll readily use ideas found all over the world and take measures to implement it. I think people are easily open to the changes because we're just a huge clusterfuck of different cultures. In the next few weeks downtown T.O is gonna implement (for testing) our first bi-directional crosswalk used in other busy cities around the world. Dunno if we're behind on this or what, but sounds interesting.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: RuNE]
#8716505 - 08/02/08 02:25 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Average Electric Used Per Day 4.22kWh Average Electric Cost Per Day $.76 Average Gas Used Per Day .28therms Average Gas Cost Per Day $.69
From my latest electric bill. That puts me at about 120-130 kWh/month. I work 12 hours a day every day though, so I'm almost never home.
Apparently I'm paying about 18cents per kilowatt hour. My gas bill goes up dramatically in the winter because my place is the ass to heat because of the tall ceilings and tons of windows.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8728782 - 08/05/08 12:25 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sweden: corresponding 0.20 - 0.21 USD per kWh.
A model apartment here uses about 2000 kWh/year. A model small house without electric heating uses about 5000 kWh/year. A model small house with electric heating uses about 20000 kWh/year.
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Re: Cost of electric power? [Re: Seuss]
#8728912 - 08/05/08 12:55 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Your monthly usage is only 120kWh? WOW!
Electricity cost in the Netherlands: 0.18 euro (=0.27USD) per kWh (0.075 euro is real cost, rest is tax). Average usage in the Netherlands: 3500-4000 kWh/year per household
Our climate doesn't need air conditioners yet and we mainly need energy to heat our houses. For my small country, we have lots of natural gas and we have a good infrastructure for gas transport to every home. Almost all energy that is used for temperature regulation, water heating and cooking comes from natural gas. Gas price is 0.65 euro per m^3.
Seuss, ever looked into a generator? How much is the price per kWh with a small generator?
Edited by Annom (08/05/08 12:56 PM)
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