HAY GUYS

**RacinReaver** · Local time: Apr 22, 2008, 01:35 AM

So the local energy company just "updated" the electricity meters on my apartment complex, and my electricity bill went up by about 45%. In previous months, I had been using around 650kWh per bimonthly period with around 12 kWh/day. Now it's somehow up to 950 kWh which is about 15.5kWh/day. Now, I don't run the AC or heat, and between my roommate and myself, we have I guess two computers that run 18 hours of the day or so. Our total bill was $100 a month. Over the summer, while running an ancient window AC unit with a shitty old refrigerator in Pittsburgh for a similar sized apartment I was paying $40 a month.

So, I'm curious, how much energy do you guys use? Am I totally getting fucked over by my city?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

**RacinReaver** · Local time: May 5, 2008, 10:09 PM

Juan, electricity is more expensive here, but what bothers me is how I've lived here for five months and my bill was roughly constant. Then it just suddenly jumped this past month.

Zeph, 4.5 is still considerably lower than what I had had before; but I don't understand how I could be using 15 kW/day. No AC, no heat, two computers that run ~12 hours a day, and high efficiency light bulbs. It's a relatively new refrigerator, and I can't believe cooking uses that much electricity.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

**RacinReaver** · Local time: Jul 17, 2009, 01:55 PM

Well, after moving into a similar sized apartment with a less efficient oven and keeping the same lifestyle, my electricity is down to 4.32kWh/day.

So, yeah, go my old apartment complex with most likely the least efficient refrigerator ever.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

**RacinReaver** · Local time: Jul 18, 2009, 12:13 PM

The electricity company here gives you the option to be billed at different rates during the day. If you use during peak hours they'll charge more, and if you use it during the night they'll charge less. The idea is to decrease demand during peak hours so they don't have to use less efficient generating methods and don't have to deal with rolling brownouts and whatnot.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

**RacinReaver** · Local time: Jul 22, 2009, 09:57 AM

Gonna bet you got remetered.

I was speaking idiomatically.