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Just paid my bill for August last night $360.97; down $70 from last month
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Just paid my bill for August last night $360.97; down $70 from last month
$150/month!
my electricity here is through the city of Garland and it isn't bad at all considering how hot its been. Only averaging $150 the last couple of months (and I keep the AC cold at 68) and gets down to about $50 around December/January.
Air conditioning is all about climate. Anywhere in Texas is a hot, hot climate where air conditioning has been a staple for a long time. I (28 now) grew up with it. My mom and dad (50's) love it now but didnt grow up with it until their teens. My grandparents on both sides didnt like air conditioning and didnt use it even though they live or lived in Texas their whole lives. Even to this day when I go visit my grandparents in Del Rio I take my own fan to position directly blowing at me so I can get even some sleep. Damn swamp coolers they use are brutal.
By contrast, when I was in South Bend, Indiana visiting Notre Dame the dorms didnt even have window units.
If you haven't gotten your CPS bill already, be prepared to see what them having 2 plants down and having to buy it elsewhere at a premium to keep up with the demand caused by a month of primarily 100+ degree temperatures and no rain can do.
Mine was $100 higher than it's ever been the entire time we've lived in our house. That sucked.
my recent bill was $100 higher than the previous one, but not the highest ever for my current house.
$481.67
So how much are you guys having to pay per kWh this month?
$110 but that is only for electricity. We are on the budget thing.
Yo, no doubt mine was $523, which is almost $300 more than usual. I even had my temp in house at 80 degrees. CPS bent me over, bumped me in the ass, and didn't even say thank you...Those bas s
Again, what is your per kWh cost? Or how many kWh did you use?
Mine only went up 30 bucks, but I know this month will be alot higher.
Ugggggg the price to pay to keep cool ...
for the past 31 days we used 1550 KH's
Avg day use is 50.3
Avg cost per day is $5.27
Our bill was $163.33 with an adjustment of -$53.74 so we paid $109.59
Holy Sheep !!!
So, basically, ppl without budget billing are paying a little over 10 cents per kWh. Thanks. That means the person complaining about a $523 bill used close to 5,000 kWh; that's not CPS' fault. I haven't used 5,000 kWh year to date including this month's usage.
And even with the plants down, you're lucky; my bill for 1,440 kWh was $174 (PEC/Austin).
No kidding. 10c per kWh is not exceptionally expensive. I haven't parsed my bill in a long time, just took the time to do so. For 861 kWh my bill was $91.54. Amounts to 10.63 cents per kWh. That's Oregon and PGE for you. Before taxes, offsets, and fees, the electricity itself is only $54.96, or 6.38 cents per kWh. We get charged 5.124 cents for the first 250 kWh then 6.899 cents for anything over 250 kWh.
How do you guys use so much electricity? You live in mansions, or poorly insulated places? It's been in the high 80's and 90's here. Sunday, it's suppose to break 100. I've been running the AC too keep it cool, and I'm all electric. No natural gas for the range, water heater, etc.
$236. up $105 from last months bill.
The *average* temperature the last 30 days in Austin was nearly 90 and we have been over 100 almost every day in that time. San Antonio has been about the same. The cloud cover during this span has been minimal so houses do bake, insulation or no. The tree cover in many newer neighborhoods is non-existent.
So keeping your place at 80 shouldn't be much different than me keeping my place at 70. I have more humid air I think, so it takes more energy to cool.
It's just I use under 1000 kWh, and it looks like you guys are using at least 3000!
Mine was $231.92 last month and I just paid $340.33 yesterday. And we were gone for a week during that time!
Jerks!
Check to see if you just got your deposit returned. I just opened my water bill (email) and it said that I had a 25 dollar credit on the account. I was checked to see if I accidentally double paid, but I hadn't so I called them and it was due to the return of my deposit. I was like SCORE! Then 2 minutes later I got my CPS bill $293. $50 higher than my previous highest bill and far above my average. I was like DOH!
I have no one to blame but myself. We went on vacation last month and I have one of those CPS programmable thermostats. I deleted the program and just set the temp at 83 (we have a cat, or I would have turned it off all the way). When I came back I never reprogrammed it so some days we would leave the ac running all day, etc. Don't doubt for a minute that I saw that bill and sprung into action immediately. We set it to be 77 when we wake up at about 6:30 am, then it goes up to 82 at 7:30 when we go to work, then at 5:30 it comes down to 77 (I get home at 6:15), and the last step is that it goes to 74 and the 2 fans in my bedroom come on at 11:30 (I have to be cold to sleep well)
I keep my thermostat set at constant 73. My bill was $90.95 for 1256kwh, but I live in WA State. If I had been living in SA, like we used to, for sure it'd be $400+. CPS rapes people. I expect my bill to be a bit higher next month. We've had near 100 temps for the last week & it'll be 95-105 the next 10-15 days.
Keep in mind, any of the newer homes in the NW have a higher R value of insulation than places in the south. I really don't get it. Insulation works for hot weather as well as cold. Just because they don't go 3 months below freezing is no reason not to insulate well.
You know, the biggest problem with heat for well insulated houses are the windows. The can be good windows, but if strong sunlight is entering, it has the equivalent heating power of something like 1 k-watt per square meter. Outside awnings, to block direct sunlight works miracles. Well worth the investment to save on air conditioning costs.
My baby mamma has a kid from a previous marrriage. That guy is high up at CPS and let's just say that money is never an issue for that bag. He takes some nice vacations too. Did I say vacations? I meant monthly conferences.
Meanwhile my bill was 352 last month. And I work every single day and have the AC set at 82 while I'm gone.
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