re: Who here has broke $500 electric bill?

I don't think we've broken $500 on our electric/gas, but in Collierville we pay water separately. Combined we may have gone over $500 I'd have to look.
Does anywhere else separate the electric/gas from water?

Has anyone’s usage gone up?

Or is it comparable to previous years?

Ours is almost the same as previous years, yet our bill is much higher.

$700+

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Level bill pay with Cleco and gas company. $400 together year round. Haven’t seen an jump yet in either. My home is surrounded by 75 year old Iive oaks that help. Probably only 50% of the day the direct sun is on my house.

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You’re paying $400 every month year round? That’s fricking horrible

thermostat at 78 degrees. Saves me money.

We just built 2900 sft in Broussard. I was worried hearing about you baws with high electric bills. Just got our first bill covering 31 days.... $242.00- Slemco.

I am very happy. The doors were essentially open for 3 days while we moved in and got settled.

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We set the thermostat at 78 and above depending on what side of the house we are in. We've never seen a 76 degree thermostat. 78 feels better than 95 every time.

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You will be an excellent peasant in the globalist utopia they are trying to create

A friend of mine showed me their bill and it was $875 with a 2k ft2 house.
I told them to get kill-o-watt meters from Amazon. Though I think it's their AC.

I have an older r22 system that's about a half pound low right now. I'm still able to keep my bill under $400. I just have the AC set to go to 77 from 1am to 6am and 75 from 10am to 3pm. My AC is only on maybe 9-12 hours a day doing this.

Next AC I'll actually put in a smaller system and take the Two larger upstairs bedrooms off of it and install mini splits in those rooms.

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77 from 1am to 6am and 75 from 10am to 3pm
10:00pm ac is set down to 78

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How do you people live? If it gets over 72 at night I'm sweating.

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How do you people live? If it gets over 72 at night I'm sweating.

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I have learned that there are quality differences in ceiling fans, or in how you mount them. In the old house I bought some Hunters from Home Depot. The ceilings were normal height and the fans were mounted directly to the ceiling. The breeze was just okay. In the new house the ceilings are higher and the ceiling fans are mounted to extension poles. The fan in new room is kicks up wind like a WWII fighter plane - it's either a better fan or the pole mounts makes a difference. With that breeze, 78 degrees on the AC is comfortable to sleep.