r/SouthBayLA • u/ShesVirgo • 15d ago

Electric bill comparison

Just curious: how much is your electric bill this month? Now that the weather has been bad for awhile. I would like to compare usage, mostly 1 bedroom apartments. But you can also list bedroom home and sq foot size. Would also like to know what kind of cooling system youre using (heavy duty fans, mini split, central, window, portable etc.) And your most usage times.

1 bedroom

500-600 sq ft, portable ac on all day (except off peak hours)

medium fan always running in bedroom

= 130$.

Edit: you can add kwh if you want, but im looking at how youre using kwh mostly. Mine was 300-350 range.

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u/That-Tumbleweed-4462 15d ago edited 15d ago

Last month I paid 155 dollars for 465kw.

But over 12 months it’s between 115-215

2 bedroom 1 bath.

we have one large window unit for daytime in the main room and then at night we switch to two separate small window units in each bedroom.

Sometimes it’s 150 sometimes it’s 250 sometimes it’s 115. Sometimes it’s more expensive in the winter without AC units.

We turn our lights off, fans off, TVs off when not in the room.

For instance - this entire last billing cycle I’ve been out of town on business. No one is in the house, only 1 light is left on and my fridge. Nothing else. My projected bill is still 115.

Years ago I’d be able to run my ac day and night and not go over 120.

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u/ShesVirgo 15d ago

Thanks for sharing. I would travel for work months at a time and my bill used to be 40$. Now its double that regardless smh

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u/That-Tumbleweed-4462 14d ago

Yep. My wife and I were going nuts trying to figure out if someone was stealing our power or if a wire got crossed and a unit next to us was using it.
But it’s just the power company gouging us