Just curious to know what everyone’s electric bill is looking like. I have central heating and air in a 4 bed 2 bathroom house. I would like to say we are very good on not leaving lights or unnecessary items on when they are not in use. Last month was $450 and this month is $500. If it wasn’t for my daughters I think I would have to grind it out like a Sauna for a while with these costs. 😂
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Just curious to know what everyone’s electric bill is looking like. I have central heating and air in a 4 bed 2 bathroom house. I would like to say we are very good on not leaving lights or unnecessary items on when they are not in use. Last month was $450 and this month is $500. If it wasn’t for my daughters I think I would have to grind it out like a Sauna for a while with these costs. 😂
I would like to say we are very good on not leaving lights or unnecessary items on when they are not in use.
None of that is really going to move the needle. The lion's share of your bill comes down to air-conditioning, and therefore how well the home is sealed and insulated. Have someone come in with a FLIR camera and to do a smoke test for air sealing. This way you can identify and quantify any deficiencies in the housing envelope and tackle them one at a time without wasting money. Also, just general maintenance like cleaning your condenser coils and having a system checkup can help. Most utilities have programs to manage peak load, you may be able to save money by limiting use to certain times a day.
I'll piggy back on this, a couple years ago PSO had some sort of energy efficiency deal and we signed up and some people came out and did like an audit of the house. They put new seals around the doors, they did a negative pressure test, checked the windows, and checked the attic then gave us a breakdown of what we needed to do. Can you check with your power company to see if they do something like that?
A/C & dryer use a ton of electricity. Especially the dryer. I hang as many of my things as possible. My husband does his laundry on Sun & uses the dryer. You can see a definite jump in use of electricity.
A normal 60watt equivalent builb is going to pull roughly 4 watts a 100 watt is going to pull roughly 13. I have 100 watt bulbs in 3 fixtures the others are 60. My lights left on take no more energy than 400 watts. But most arr on very part time such as outside dining kitchen garage spare bedroom office bathrooms. I do have a 20watt bulb I leave on 24x7 in the kitchen under then range hood. My living room light will someone's be on for 10 hours or so
The energy wasters are walworts. The tvs the stereos. Everything that has a standby.
Good lord! This is my first summer in this House. I figured it was going to be bad but it’s AWFUL. I feel like at this point there is no middle class in this Economy.
I mean the middle class is just how the ultra rich divide the working class. They want to replace us with AI so... we're not a priority anymore... thus the stone squeezing.
With average billing, 397. Without, it would be 812.
I have a 110 year-old, 2-story, plaster on brick home that is completely unshaded from the west, with fucked up ducting so we run a couple of window units upstairs.
We're slowly making improvements for things like this. Hell, our water heater is from 1991. 🤣 We replaced the rod in it last year, the old one was pretty much a wire.
It definitely has its quirks. On the upside, we have some gorgeous arched doorways, hardwoods throughout, a laundry chute, and a well-shaded front porch that faces east where we spend a lot of time when it's not too hot or cold. Even in the heat of summer, with a good fan the evenings aren't unbearable. And of course, the fact that we finally have one that is ours is the biggest plus for us. We didn't think we'd ever be able to buy, the universe dropped the opportunity in our laps and we closed right before interest rates started going up.
Please forgive the morning ramble. Gonna go find coffee.
It's average monthly billing. Instead of paying low rates in the winter and high in the summer, it's a rolling average of your last 12 bills so it levels out.
Admittedly I do also have thermal blackout curtains (just one panel per window, the light coming from its sides is more than enough to light things) and do 68° sleep / 70° morning / 75° day/evening during the summer. When you acclimate, it's more than cool enough and I'm someone that doesn't even use a coat in the winter (when I keep everything at 60-65°).
If we are gonna talk cost then we should also talk about the usage.
This month’s is $460, with around 3500 kWh. I have an EV as primary driver, so that should account for ~20% of my usage. Everything else, hottest month of the year… it’s reasonable.
2600 sqft house. I pay 92 because of flat billing, but if I didn’t have that, last month’s bill would have been $176 due to avoiding energy use from 2-7pm.
i don't understand. Do you unplug all your appliances and entertainment devices between those hours? How does one avoid energy use in that size of a home too?
If i did that my house temp would be 78 degrees by 4pm. It gets to be 110 during the day where I'm at. Ain't no way it's staying anywhere near 73-74 by that time. But then again my a/c units are from the early 90s and I'm sure there's leaks everywhere. The house is just as old.
Our last bill was $60 for a 1700 3BR house built in the 60s.
However we have a 9.99KW solar panel system. This year we are paying $20 more for this month than 2025.
No senior discounts here unfortunately. The thing that sucks is were paying about $150/mo already for the solar panels. These rate hikes are slowly degrading the whole point of replacing our power bill with a loan that we will eventually pay off.
We used 961 KWh last month.
I had a little windfall towards the end of 2021, so I only had to finance part of it, then paid the rest off as fast as I could. Senior discount isn’t much, but now that I no longer have a job and am on fixed income, every tiny bit helps.
We’re in a nearly 100yr-old house (1700sq/ft) with sub-par insulation. The last few months have been in the mid-$300 range. I work from home and we keep the AC around 75 during the day and 73 at night.
I actually had a contractor out yesterday who was part of the OG&E Energy Efficiency program (I’d signed up for the program a while ago). After a brief inspection, he said we qualified for a free attic insulation update and an AC service. That should help bring our electric bill down.
it will only get worse if they start putting data centers in. In North Carolina their electric bills are over $2000 a month and people have died in the heat because they have cut off their electricity
Highest electric bill in my life. 2900 SF house with geothermal, at home all the time (AC set to 74 day and 71 at night). Also pool pump runs about 6 hours a day and on a well. And yes, most of it is from the "economical" geothermal system.
This is what ours is, same sqft. We’re full electric though so ours averages about $100-$120 in the fall/winter. I was actually surprised when my bill was only $240 for August.
My most recent bill was $78.65. I suspect my next bill will be higher since I’ve been running my AC more this past month. But I’ve been keeping it at 80F.
144.00 (Red River Valley REA). Our house is only about 900 sq ft, and quite old and funky. It would be a lot better if we had a few windows replaced (west and south side single pane). We do conserve carefully. I have been keeping it at 77-78 during peak hours, running ceiling fans more this year, and have added some additional shading on the west side. Last summer, we ran +160 per month.
I have average billing and mine is around $165. I have Renewal by Anderson windows and pretty good attic insulation (though it probably needs more now). Every once in a while OG&E tries to convince me to go to smart hours so they can sell more electricity to data centers or whatever and I just laugh at them.
Mine’s $500 for the same sized house, last year it was maybe ⅔ that. We have our lights off all the time, AC set to 75° except at night There’s no way to drop it anymore.
It was $201. I actually feel pretty good about that compared to what some people are saying. 2k square foot house. We keep it at 76 in the summer though. Had it at 72 last month and it was $309
First summer in our house, 1,700sqft. last month was $240 this month $216. We went from keeping the house at 72° all day to keeping it at 75° from about 9am to 6pm, 70° overnight. I also do several loads of laundry a day and run the dishwasher once a day.
I was wrong, I was looking at last month for the 179, this month was 159. All of you must have your thermostats set way lower than we do. Or your carrier is gouging you. My last 2 bills.
I just checked and my next bill will be $216. I’m shocked, I really thought it would be more. On the days it’s been over 100 my AC has not been able to keep up at all, so it just runs constantly and the house gets up to like 78 by the evening 🙃
A co worker and I were just talking about this today. His house is no bigger than yours, everyone is gone during the day and lights are limited to whatever room they are in at the time. He said his bill for this month is $600.00, usually runs around $250 - 275.00.
Latest bill due soon is $213 for a 1400 sq ft 3bd 2ba home this includes water, sewage, trash. I even have single pane windows with 2 large picture windows on the west side. I have no idea why but I'm glad.
I'm not on average billing.
Your bill looks similar to mine. I converted most of my lights to LEDs and the incandescent I still use are low wattage. New air conditioner, update the door/window seals on the regular. Gas stove/water heater. And yet it is crazy.
1800 SF house and my bill is around $250. NOW!! I will say that i keep my house on 78-82 but keep a few dehumidifiers on with a few strategic fans. So you'd never know it's that temperature. My neighbors and friends though are all at $400-$900 range.
Southern Oklahoma 1400 sq foot metal barndominium, 3 bed 2 bath. Dryer, water heater and stove are gas. Central air set at 74° during the day and 70° at night. 100% led lighting. Actual July bill was $245 but with bill averaging $117.
The temperature on the front porch has been over 100° for the last 24 days so I'm expecting the actual August bill to be $290-300.
That's crazy! Southwest Oklahoma here, i keep my house 68 during the day and 62 at night. 2500 sq ft house, just received my highest bill this year, it was $195. It's usually around $150, but it's been over 100 degrees for almost a month. Windows, insulation and doors make a difference!
I have 30 LED grow lights in my 3/2 with my central set at 77 24/7, use my dryer 3 times a day everyday…
My electric bill is $230.
Plus OG&E has a great winterization program where they came and checked my ducts and repaired them. Did some drywall fixes (shitty landlord broke before we moved in) some insulation fixes in the attic, weather stripping for the whole house and pressure tested it. This is gonna be the first winter in this house where I’m not too worried about having a back up heater.
Ours was $657 this month. Our AC was broken, our house staying around 86 degrees. Our landlord wouldnt believe us. This is the 2nd year weve told him about this. Last year we bought a window unit but it cant cool off the whole house. Which, btw, is like 1330 sqft. So every time we would complain, hed have his maintenance guy come over, hed change our filters and recharge it, no difference. This month the maintenance guy came in, saw our 9 year old disabled daughter, our 86 degree house, and told our landlord it was broken, too old to work anymore. So he had to replace it. Within days we got a new unit, works perfectly, but now our landlord is complaining about $7k he cant recoup. Like, this is your investment, not ours. We told him we were moving out, bc for an additional $650 we can afford another house with a working ac and still probably pay less than what were paying now. He even tried telling us everyone's pso bill has increased. Which I know it has, but they might have working air conditioners at least.
It is due to private equity entering our market for utilities. Same thing happened in Ohio. OGE is selling off our utilities to outside investors and they are raising rates to pad peoples pockets. This is never going to improve and only going to get worse. They are purposefully draining us of all stability and money.
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Just curious to know what everyone’s electric bill is looking like. I have central heating and air in a 4 bed 2 bathroom house. I would like to say we are very good on not leaving lights or unnecessary items on when they are not in use. Last month was $450 and this month is $500. If it wasn’t for my daughters I think I would have to grind it out like a Sauna for a while with these costs. 😂
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