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re: Problems with Electric Bill/Electricity Usage
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:05 pm to Jebadeb
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:05 pm to Jebadeb
What the hell, do y’all run every light in y’all house 24/7 and the a/c set on 50? I have a 2500sqft house with two units and a 1000sqft shop that has a central unit that stays on all the time. My bill is $50 - $60 a month. Yes I do have gas stove, water heaters and a generator that been running about 6-10 hours a month here lately with all the bad weather and the gas bill runs about $30. I would flip my shite if I had some of y’all’s utility bills.
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Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:39 pm to lsujunky
Get someone to work with you and check each circuit one at a time while watching the meter. There should be an indication on the meter (dial spinning or some other indicator) showing the draw on the meter. Turn a breaker off. If the meter does not slow down drastically, turn that breaker back on and try another. Like stated in another reply, sounds like you have a heater, water heater or pool heating element stuck. Let us know what you find.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:40 pm to Jebadeb
Do you happen to have an electric water heater? If so, there may be a leak in a hot water pipe under your slab. Notice any warm spot on the floor?
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:42 pm to lsujunky
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I have a 2500sqft house with two units and a 1000sqft shop that has a central unit that stays on all the time. My bill is $50 - $60 a month
I call bullshite if you have Cleco
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:42 pm to lsujunky
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My bill is $50 - $60 a month.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:45 pm to Jebadeb
Ask them if they can break down the usage by day.
We had an issue with DEMCO and found the meter had malfunctioned. There were 2-3 days where the reading was impossibly high (my 200A main would have tripped) and they said it ran like that for 3 days. It was the equivalent of 20+ hairdryers running at once all day. Once I found that they deleted those three days and changed out the meter.
We had an issue with DEMCO and found the meter had malfunctioned. There were 2-3 days where the reading was impossibly high (my 200A main would have tripped) and they said it ran like that for 3 days. It was the equivalent of 20+ hairdryers running at once all day. Once I found that they deleted those three days and changed out the meter.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:50 pm to Jebadeb
Maybe your neighbor is stealing electricity from you.
What city uses Cleco?
What city uses Cleco?
Posted on 7/15/21 at 9:54 pm to Pintail
Ours jumped $100 this month (over the previous 10 years).
Ordered a 16 sensor energy usuage monitoring system to will report usage for each circuit to an app and my Home Assistant server.
Ordered a 16 sensor energy usuage monitoring system to will report usage for each circuit to an app and my Home Assistant server.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:06 pm to lsujunky
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I have a 2500sqft house with two units and a 1000sqft shop that has a central unit that stays on all the time. My bill is $50 - $60 a month.
Doubtful. Unless you live alone and leave the AC set to like 78 during the day / 75 at night, or some ridiculous shite like that.
Posted on 7/16/21 at 7:56 am to lostinbr
All this talk about the amount of the power bill just confuses things. Rate could vary from month to month. You need to look at usage in kwh or mwh.
Jebadeb, you need to have someone look at your system.
Those usage numbers are way out of the ordinary. You either have a bad meter or something is using way to much electricity.
The only things it could be is A/C, stove, hot water
heater or dryer. Basically anything that is 220VAC.
I would think anything else would trip the breaker if it was using that much energy.
Jebadeb, you need to have someone look at your system.
Those usage numbers are way out of the ordinary. You either have a bad meter or something is using way to much electricity.
The only things it could be is A/C, stove, hot water
heater or dryer. Basically anything that is 220VAC.
I would think anything else would trip the breaker if it was using that much energy.
Posted on 7/16/21 at 8:22 am to mswiggins
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220VAC.
I know it is pedantic but the US nominal voltages have been 120/240 for decades.
Posted on 7/16/21 at 8:33 am to Jebadeb
You need to figure out when they supposedly read your meter and read it yourself to make sure they are charging you correctly. It’s easy to do. What ever date of your cycle go read it a few days before and a few days after. It won’t be exact but you will know if they are estimating your bill instead of actually reading it monthly.
Posted on 7/16/21 at 8:35 am to MaximillianPayne
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Our bill this past month was well over $100 more than usual for this time of year, and I have no idea why. Highest bill ever for this house.
That much difference is usually the fuel adjustment. That changes monthly
Posted on 7/16/21 at 10:19 am to Deaux boi
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Hire a HVAC technician to come in and check to see if your heating elements on your furnace aren’t stuck on. You very well could have your a/c and heat going at the same time. I have come across this many many times.
Thanks. This seems like it could possibly be the problem.
I guess I'll have to have someone come out to check on this and to see if there are any other issues.
Thanks for all the advice baws. I got more info from this thread than from everyone I've talked to and an hour on Google.
I'll let yall know if I get to the bottom of this.
Posted on 7/16/21 at 10:34 am to dakarx
quote:What did you get? I'm looking at the IoTaWatt.
Ordered a 16 sensor energy usuage monitoring system to will report usage for each circuit to an app and my Home Assistant server.
Posted on 7/16/21 at 8:05 pm to Jebadeb
I was thinking about this thread this evening and thought about checking our SELA house to see if it had shot up.
This is our camp on a partially shaded lot. 2210 sqft of conditioned air highly energy efficient all-electric with 2 and 3 ton 20 SEER AC units. We were out of town for a week but I didn't switch the thermostat program. 76 downstairs all day, 78 upstairs in the day 70 at night (9 hours).
Demco is the provider
Here is the daily usage for the last bill the temperature line is the 24hr average
Current bill due with total usage 1065 kWH in the 30 day period
The same time period last year with 31kWh less used was $108.54.
Even considering a much less efficient house with the same square footage as ours still makes OP's bill seem extraordinarily high.
This is our camp on a partially shaded lot. 2210 sqft of conditioned air highly energy efficient all-electric with 2 and 3 ton 20 SEER AC units. We were out of town for a week but I didn't switch the thermostat program. 76 downstairs all day, 78 upstairs in the day 70 at night (9 hours).
Demco is the provider
Here is the daily usage for the last bill the temperature line is the 24hr average
Current bill due with total usage 1065 kWH in the 30 day period
The same time period last year with 31kWh less used was $108.54.
Even considering a much less efficient house with the same square footage as ours still makes OP's bill seem extraordinarily high.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 7:26 am to Korkstand
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What did you get? I'm looking at the IoTaWatt.
I ordered the Emporia VUE w/16 x 50A sensors Amazon LINK(I have 2 A/C units to monitor and there are 2 load centers (1 inside and 1 outside)) but getting ready so sub panel the inside one to spread the load out over more breakers and add some circuits for the sawdust making shop.
It's supposed to integrate right in to HA.... so we'll see this weekend.. waiting on Amazon to deliver today.
Edit: Of course now that I have it and figured out that you need one unit per load center... DOH!
This post was edited on 7/18/21 at 9:28 am
Posted on 7/17/21 at 9:03 am to Jebadeb
My Entergy bill was $500 for a 3,000sqft house with A/C at 78 during day and 72 at night
Posted on 7/17/21 at 9:10 am to Obtuse1
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pedantic
Look at you with the fancy words.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 10:11 am to Jebadeb
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in April, the bill states that we used over 9000 kwh. Then in May it was down to about 5800, but that's still high. Then June had us back over 7000.
Tell the wife to layoff the vibrator. She is using one of those plug-in ones and using all the electricity in the house. Funny she hadn’t blown a breaker.
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