It’s around $90 in the months in which I don’t touch the thermostat and about $150-170 in the hot Alabama summer for my two bedrooom apartment.
It varies from $30-$50 for a two-bedroom house. I use a CFL for the porch light and small lights otherwise when possible. It’s somewhat higher in the summer as I start running fans and to a small amount the swamp cooler and a one-room in-window air conditioner. I have a gas water heater, so that often saves me a lot of money, especially in the summer.
700 sq ft. apartment. $11/mo. This is somewhat misleading, as I do not have a washer/dryer. I never use the heater, and the A/C comes on maybe four times a year.
I think I am going to come out on the high side of this one. I have a 2800 sq ft antique colonial and the electric bill is about $400 a month in the summer and about $200 a month in the winter. We still make out in the summer because the winter oil heating bill can be $600 a month down from $1100 a month before we did some extensive energy saving renovations.
$60-$70 CAD /mo. Last month was… 409kwh.
It’s a bit difficult to know how much I pay for what, given that I’ve only been living here 10 months, didn’t have much electronics for the first few months, and EPCOR has wacky estimates.
It seems though that my biggest current draws are my furnace motor, followed by my desktop PC (21’ CRT monitor, older dual Xeon HP workstation).
I have all CFL bulbs, which is doubly nice for summer as you aren’t paying near as much, and you aren’t heating the place up all the time.
Atlanta suburbs, 2 story + basement 3 br 2/5ba house. $60-90 depending on how much we use the A/C. I have all the lightbulbs CFL except in the bathrooms (it’s those big globe ones in there) and a programmable thermostat. I make extensive use of ceiling fans so I can keep the thermostat set to a higher temp. During the time of year that I can get away with it, I open the windows at night to cool the house down.
When I lived in southern Arizona we usually had a swamp cooler instead of A/C which kept the bills down, but the one summer I lived in a 2br townhouse with A/C the bills were in the $300-400 range. Arizona’s way hotter than here. I don’t even want to think about what it would cost to cool this house out there :eek:
I have gas heat which seems pretty efficient; I also bundle up and keep a blanket on the couch in the winter.
It varies by season, but averages about $120 per quarter.
Our house is a 2 bed/2 bath, 1-story at appx. 1300 square feet. We also have ceiling fans in the bedrooms, living room, dining room which help a lot.
We don’t have our electric bill on the budget/ equal pay plan because it is very unbalanced. In the summer (June-July-Aug) with temps peaking around 115 F or so the bill can be $230+/month. In the winter the bill runs $50 or less.
During the day I push the thermostat up to 84 or 85 F and drop it back down to 78 when were home. I like it colder, but I don’t want to have to pay a huge electric bill. Nevada Power can bite me. I just turned on my AC for the first time this season around May 20.
We have gas heat, water heater, dryer and stove/oven. The gas bill in he summer is low $40/month or less, but in the winter usually still less than $100.
We have a 3BR 2BA 1300sf ranch in Indianapolis. It’s all electric - heat, A/C, water, appliances, etc. I just got our bill, and it’s about $82. Our highest bill in the last six months was about $220. Not bad, considering people with gas heat and old drafty houses in Indy can have bills as high as $800 in the winter.
$250 to $750 per month, for 2 of us in a cheaply built 3 bedroom raised rancher with electric heat and no central air. I think we safely win the award for most money with least benefit. It is amazing to me that the cops don’t raid our house as a marijuana farm based on aerial infrared surveys.
Since this is basically a poll, I’ll move it to IMHO for you.
Cajun Man
for the SDMB
I was averaging $14,000 a month, but then I had them branch over feeder lines to my own substation. Further still, I installed solar panels, wind generators, and a small catalytic-based generator. Being a swinging bachelor wasn’t easy. . .
Then the fiancee moved in, and we started doing things like hang-drying laundry, opening windows instead of using the A/C. This all brought the bills down to around $75 - $100 a month. It’s weird, because the rates aren’t flat (like 9¢ per kWH or anything–it adjusts constantly, and they always tack on taxes like “Fuel Surcharges” and crap. It makes it tough to actually monitor our usage, but hey, it’s cheaper now than it was at 140 Benjamins.
Tripler
Yeah, I had my own substation.
UK. Two bedroomed brick bungalow with gas central heating, electric shower, gas hob and electric oven . My 2006 total electric bill was £280 ($555) and gas bill was £254 ($500). It will be the same again this year because I am in special contract which guarantees the same unit cost up to 2010.
What’s a gas hob?
The gas burners on a cooker, as per this picture
This is the setup we have.
Cool. Never heard that term before.
2 & 2 block house, SW coast of Florida. Budget bill of $398.00/month. High, I know, but I have MS, so I keep the A/C cranked nearly year 'round, and have fans running all over the house. Also, there’s the pool pump, three computers on 24/7 (one’s an editing setup), the pond fountain, and entirely too many electronic toys for the Princess. Parthenokenesis and I work at home, too, so turning the air down during the day isn’t an option.
Having said all that, reading everyone else’s costs has been enlightening. I should maybe look into updating the central air to something more efficient.
small 3 bedroom house were paying about 250 a month. Split between me and 3 roomates. Total utilities are about 150 a person.
1000 sq ft apartment. About $200.00 per month. My partner works at home and Dallas isn’t known for mild weather. We use Green Mountain Energy which is better than the evil TXU.
My one-bedroom apartment has a pretty consistent bill of about 24 bucks a month. If I choose to use air conditioning with any regularity, that number can easily triple.