whats your power bill each month?

I been avg so far 136 for the summer in North East.
i reduced my 24/7 htpc from 110KW down to 60ish KW. I vmware my whs and replaced lots of smaller space hard drives with 2 TB eco drives.
The biggest cost saving was switching from regular electric water heater to the GE hybrid model. It sucks in hot air from surrounding area to heat water. Cool benefit is it provides dehumidifying as well as free AC, which keep the basement area dry and cooler in the summer.

If your running electric water heater research the hybrid heat transfer models.

just to break it down further.
monthly KWH 755 @ .18 (total CT kwh rate) = 136
755 @ .06 (wish that was our rate) = 45
 
Around 60-100 bucks a month depending on time of year. I have 1 quad core server running 24/7 on medium load (has about 7 VMs on it) and one dual core PC running 24/7. Really PCs don't use much power, what probably kills me is the 4800w heater under my garage in winter and my portable AC unit.

What actually kills me is the delivery charge. It's more then half the bill.
 
Mine averages $200-250. 1 dual-core server, 2 dual-core desktops, and 2 dual-core laptops. I haven't seen my electricity bill this month though, as I have started running my AC at 24C when I go to sleep (about 5 hours of usage a day). I'm also stuck running three 1000w transformers for some other electronics.

I have 2 360s, 2 PS3, and a 37" HDTV, but I don't run them all too often. I barely ever turn on my lights. I have 3 stereos that are on all the time too. There's the fridge. PS3 controller charger and 360 contrller chargers. Only things in my place that suck power.
 
$200/month on average. That's with 8 computers, 6 on 24/7/365, 3 xbox 360s, a wii, ps3, etc etc etc

In the summer its a bit above that because of the AC, and in the winter its lower, but the gas bill goes up for heat.
 
I'm paying about $110-$160 a month. The thing that pisses me off is that the last two months they went by estimated usage. I read the meter, and it was no where near that usage. I probably won't see a credit in...if ever. =/
 
during the summer, $300 a month, Houston, TX area

4 bedroom, 2 bath, 4 pc's that run 24/7. Thermostat at 77-78 during the day and 72 at night

We had all new duct work ran about 1.5 months ago. Ceiling fans in all rooms and having tile floor throughout the house helps keep it cool to
 
For those with 200+ bills and AC, have you considered cleaning out the evap coil and condenser? AC should not cost THAT much. Maybe dirt in those coils is the culpit and making the unit run less efficient, and more often.
 
For those with 200+ bills and AC, have you considered cleaning out the evap coil and condenser? AC should not cost THAT much. .

depends on where you live and the size of the area your trying to keep cool. The heat index here has been about 105 for the past few weeks
 
For those with 200+ bills and AC, have you considered cleaning out the evap coil and condenser? AC should not cost THAT much. Maybe dirt in those coils is the culpit and making the unit run less efficient, and more often.

I don't know why my bill is so high -- I went from a ~750 square foot apartment with single pane windows with lots of cracks my previous landlord happily ignored and said I was responsible for fixing if I wanted anything done to a ~900 square foot apartment with double pane windows and someone above me, which should've helped a lot with insulation.

Last summer I got a $250 bill one month, and others were over $200. Last month I got a $270 bill at this new place.

I think it's the AC primarily, since my PCs are kept in sleep mode if not in use and I barely turn on lights. No matter what I set it to, it never goes below 75 F, even in the dead of night. I know it's hot out (some days as high as 100 F, but only at the height of the day) but I've never been anywhere the AC simply stopped at 75 F. I've replaced the filters myself and complained bitterly enough that the AC guy has been sent out once already and supposedly cleaned the coils, though I noticed no difference. I'm going to be calling again once my rent check clears for this month, cause there's no excuse for this shit.

Anyone here in the HVAC business have any idea what might be going on? Is the unit just not able to keep up with the space? It's not brand new, but doesn't look ancient, and it certainly looks big enough to my untrained eye.
 
I live near Seattle so it is pretty mild. My combined gas/electricity bill usually varies from $150-225 with the highest cost being in the coldest part of winter.

This is in a newer 2200 sq/ft house with a hybrid Trane heat pump/gas furnace system. 4 computers, several game systems and laptops, 5 24" monitors, 3 LCD's ranging from 32-52" and a old traditional 19" tube TV. House temps set to 69 in winter and 72 in summer.
 
during the summer, $300 a month, Houston, TX area

4 bedroom, 2 bath, 4 pc's that run 24/7. Thermostat at 77-78 during the day and 72 at night

We had all new duct work ran about 1.5 months ago. Ceiling fans in all rooms and having tile floor throughout the house helps keep it cool to

A fellow Houstonian :) Yeah, the heat has been horrible lately hasn't it.

We've been hovering between $200-250 a month this summer. That is in a 2700 sq ft house, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 1 office. As for computers... 1 server, 2 desktops, and 2 laptops. We keep the thermostat at 77-78.

The good news is that is down about $100/month from last summer, between signing a contract with the power company for a lower rate and watching what lights are left on (the wife used to leave living room/gameroom/office lights on 24/7).
 
I don't know why my bill is so high -- I went from a ~750 square foot apartment with single pane windows with lots of cracks my previous landlord happily ignored and said I was responsible for fixing if I wanted anything done to a ~900 square foot apartment with double pane windows and someone above me, which should've helped a lot with insulation.

Last summer I got a $250 bill one month, and others were over $200. Last month I got a $270 bill at this new place.

I think it's the AC primarily, since my PCs are kept in sleep mode if not in use and I barely turn on lights. No matter what I set it to, it never goes below 75 F, even in the dead of night. I know it's hot out (some days as high as 100 F, but only at the height of the day) but I've never been anywhere the AC simply stopped at 75 F. I've replaced the filters myself and complained bitterly enough that the AC guy has been sent out once already and supposedly cleaned the coils, though I noticed no difference. I'm going to be calling again once my rent check clears for this month, cause there's no excuse for this shit.

Anyone here in the HVAC business have any idea what might be going on? Is the unit just not able to keep up with the space? It's not brand new, but doesn't look ancient, and it certainly looks big enough to my untrained eye.


I'm not an hvac guy, but one thing I heard can cause that is also if it's undercharged or overcharged. it needs to be just right. I suppose stuff like the expansion valve being faulty could cause this too. I'm guessing the hvac guy checked all that though. Did he plug a gauge manifold into the system? It's basically this meter with two gauges, and 3 tubes coming out of it.

also if the unit is undersized it will run all the time and not keep up with cooling loss.
 
I don't know why my bill is so high -- I went from a ~750 square foot apartment with single pane windows with lots of cracks my previous landlord happily ignored and said I was responsible for fixing if I wanted anything done to a ~900 square foot apartment with double pane windows and someone above me, which should've helped a lot with insulation.

Last summer I got a $250 bill one month, and others were over $200. Last month I got a $270 bill at this new place.

I think it's the AC primarily, since my PCs are kept in sleep mode if not in use and I barely turn on lights. No matter what I set it to, it never goes below 75 F, even in the dead of night. I know it's hot out (some days as high as 100 F, but only at the height of the day) but I've never been anywhere the AC simply stopped at 75 F. I've replaced the filters myself and complained bitterly enough that the AC guy has been sent out once already and supposedly cleaned the coils, though I noticed no difference. I'm going to be calling again once my rent check clears for this month, cause there's no excuse for this shit.

Anyone here in the HVAC business have any idea what might be going on? Is the unit just not able to keep up with the space? It's not brand new, but doesn't look ancient, and it certainly looks big enough to my untrained eye.

I had this problem one summer in georgia. Turns out a big chunk of hvac duct under the apartment had collapsed making the airflow super inefficient. crawling under an old savannah apartment in the july was disgusting.
 
I don't know why my bill is so high -- I went from a ~750 square foot apartment with single pane windows with lots of cracks my previous landlord happily ignored and said I was responsible for fixing if I wanted anything done to a ~900 square foot apartment with double pane windows and someone above me, which should've helped a lot with insulation.

Last summer I got a $250 bill one month, and others were over $200. Last month I got a $270 bill at this new place.

I think it's the AC primarily, since my PCs are kept in sleep mode if not in use and I barely turn on lights. No matter what I set it to, it never goes below 75 F, even in the dead of night. I know it's hot out (some days as high as 100 F, but only at the height of the day) but I've never been anywhere the AC simply stopped at 75 F. I've replaced the filters myself and complained bitterly enough that the AC guy has been sent out once already and supposedly cleaned the coils, though I noticed no difference. I'm going to be calling again once my rent check clears for this month, cause there's no excuse for this shit.

Anyone here in the HVAC business have any idea what might be going on? Is the unit just not able to keep up with the space? It's not brand new, but doesn't look ancient, and it certainly looks big enough to my untrained eye.


depending on the insulation in the apartment and how old it is.. the problem could be the people upstairs not using their AC and just leaving their windows wide open thus you are also cooling their apartment as the cool air goes through the ceiling into apartment above.. during the winter where i live i dont even run the heaters because my downstairs neighbors have their heaters on full blast which makes my apartment nice and warm as well..
 
About 250-290 a month.Live in east Texas were the heat index has been 105-112 for something like 27 straight days.
 
With my quad SocketF (4 quads :D) setup, and my i7 920 occasionally doing something, I run around 300usd, varying by month. Lovely California SMUD Tiered moneysucking program.
 
When I lived back home in CT, our bill in the summer would be $600-700 a month for our family of five. And that's with a house only 15 years old and brand new top of the line windows.

Right now I laugh my apartment is so cheap. Ranges from $35 to $70 depending on AC. Replacing all of my lightbulbs with CCFL had a noticeable effect.
 
When I lived back home in CT, our bill in the summer would be $600-700 a month for our family of five. And that's with a house only 15 years old and brand new top of the line windows.

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I'd have a heckuva rage if my power bill ever reached 600usd, ush less 700usd!!
 
When I lived back home in CT, our bill in the summer would be $600-700 a month for our family of five. And that's with a house only 15 years old and brand new top of the line windows.

Right now I laugh my apartment is so cheap. Ranges from $35 to $70 depending on AC. Replacing all of my lightbulbs with CCFL had a noticeable effect.

Holy crap! That's a crazy expensive bill. That's almost as much as my mortgage LOL.

It is advisable to turn off the tesla coil and other toys before going to bed. :p
 
Lately since ive taken my folding farm offline for a complete redo it was ~$160 in the winter and ~$225 in the summer (mostly due to the summer rape charges). Its also been pretty warm recently.

When the farm was online it was about $210 in the winter and $275 in the summer. I suspect in my new place that $200 will be the average year round.
 
my bills just started rising to $200-300 just for myself.

And people wonder why I'm so anal about Dashcat being able to start and shut down the compute nodes based on load in very short amounts of time...

Why pay for four minutes of boot/shutdown on a 15min render job when you can boot in 45sec, configure scripts in another 10sec or less and just dump the bastard session at the end by cutting power?
 
Winter power with folding is about 100-120 summer bill with AC (68F lol cant stand being hot.) and no folding is about 140-150. I miss folding ;(
 
Wow you guys spend a lot on power. I moved out of my parents house about a year and a half ago, their bill is always in the $200 range. They always blamed me for running up the bill by running my pc's and TV all day etc. I've seen their bill since I moved out, and it has gone up, cause I'd turn shit off to save power. They leave half the lights on, tv's on, pc's on, ac on all day and night.

In my apartment, my highest bill was about $33 which was during the summer running the AC unit for several hours a day.

Now I'm in a 2bdr/3ba condo with central AC. Last month was my highest bill ever at $43.14, was hot for a couple weeks and ran the AC a lot.

This is about 20 minutes from Los Angeles where I would assume power is more expensive than most places. I'm very anal about conserving energy, if I'm not using something, it is powered off.
 
I turn everything off when not using it, so does my wife, my desktop is set to go to sleep (under 10w) after 30 minutes of inactivity, and the lowest our thermostat is ever set is around 75F at night, normally closer to 80F. Even with all that, my power bill is $250+ a month during the summer. This is a ~900 square foot apartment, with people above me. All double pane energy saving windows. Central air, ductwork under the house. Plus this is in SC, where power is (I've always been lead to believe) fairly cheap. What the hell?
 
I turn everything off when not using it, so does my wife, my desktop is set to go to sleep (under 10w) after 30 minutes of inactivity, and the lowest our thermostat is ever set is around 75F at night, normally closer to 80F. Even with all that, my power bill is $250+ a month during the summer. This is a ~900 square foot apartment, with people above me. All double pane energy saving windows. Central air, ductwork under the house. Plus this is in SC, where power is (I've always been lead to believe) fairly cheap. What the hell?

Damn dude that is insane. Someone tapping into your power or what lol? I thought my bill was going to go way up moving to the bigger place with central AC, but it has only been about $10 extra per month.

The only thing I've done besides having things powered only during use, is replace all my bulbs with CFLs. Like in the bathrooms there were 7 100w incandescent bulbs in each, that's double what most gaming pc's use under load.
 
$60 a month :D... $45 from actual electricity, $15 for admin fees for electricity&gas(yeah, ripoff fees i know), and about $2 from the stove-top gas

3 people/bedroom apt, 1 desktop(my sig), 3 laptops and a few other devices plus AC... nothing turned on 24/7 except my RT-N16 Asus router running as an NAS :)

woot :D
 
I turn everything off when not using it, so does my wife, my desktop is set to go to sleep (under 10w) after 30 minutes of inactivity, and the lowest our thermostat is ever set is around 75F at night, normally closer to 80F. Even with all that, my power bill is $250+ a month during the summer. This is a ~900 square foot apartment, with people above me. All double pane energy saving windows. Central air, ductwork under the house. Plus this is in SC, where power is (I've always been lead to believe) fairly cheap. What the hell?

How is that possible? As I said above, we had $600-700 for a 4400sqft house with 5 people in it that used TWO central air conditioning units set to 70 degrees. There's got to be an error somewhere with your usage in an apartment.
 
Do you run a massive folding farm?

No, I have my sig rig, a fairly modest (E6400 C2D stock, 8800GTX) HTPC that's off unless it's being actively used, and a couple laptops that again, are off unless they're being used. Where are you located? Maybe your rates are a lot lower than mine?
 
I turn everything off when not using it, so does my wife, my desktop is set to go to sleep (under 10w) after 30 minutes of inactivity, and the lowest our thermostat is ever set is around 75F at night, normally closer to 80F. Even with all that, my power bill is $250+ a month during the summer. This is a ~900 square foot apartment, with people above me. All double pane energy saving windows. Central air, ductwork under the house. Plus this is in SC, where power is (I've always been lead to believe) fairly cheap. What the hell?

What the hell, indeed! Your neighbors are stealing electricity, you've got a hot water leak somewhere that's keeping your hot water heater running or your meter isn't adjusted correctly. I'd be talking to my local electric company bright and early Tuesday morning finding out what the fuck is going on.
 
$600 a month at the house and $130 at the apartment. It's AZ and the temps are high... I hope the bill goes down during Winter time.
 
I live i PR its .21cents a KW here you dont wanna know how much, maybe 500 if im lucky. And thats only one 1kw ac running 4hrs a day,w/ a pool.
 
About $70 a month in the summers and in the $110s during the winter. There are 3 computers running almost 24/7 with others on and off during the day.
 
200 with 3 computers always running and a lot of usage on tvs and lights
 
How in the world can people be spending sub $50 on their electric bill? I think the lowest Ive ever seen my bill in the summer time was just under $200. and $125 ~ish in the winter. Granted the AC is grossly inefficient in my place and the sealing on the windows is terrible but good lord $15? $33? WTF!? Do we just have insanely high cost per KwH out here or something?
 
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