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Old 05-22-12, 04:44 PM   #11
strider3700
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April/May electric bill arrived. I really hate this one. It's the very end of the heating season and it dragged out a little longer then normal. Because it warms up a bit during the day I don't want to overheat the house with the fire. Also the house is currently up for sale and the safety fences to keep my 2 year away from the woodstove are down. Anyways that means 100% of the heat comes from the heatpump. This is the time of year where solar space heating would allmost completely be enough...

Anyways I suppose I can't complain too much.

HDD (18.5C) 655.7
CDD 3
Days Covered 58
KW.h used 1906
cost/kwh 0.0911
kwh/day 32.86
kwh/hdd 2.90

So this is better then last year but not as good as 2010 in either raw kwh/h or kwh/hdd.

The cost was also the highest amount per kwh I've ever paid thanks to increased taxes.

According to the power company on my 10% reduction challenge I've saved 22% for a total of 2335 kwh saved. at the current rate that's worth $212 in savings which really makes the $75 just icing on the cake.


I modified my daily usage spreadsheet and added 30 and 60 day moving averages. the 30 day is nice to watch because the heating season here ended for me on the 13th and I turned the heatpump off. Since then I've also used the dryer once so I'm averaging 18 kwh or half that of during the heating season...

At the time of billing The running average has dropped to 32.9 kwh/day
60 day is 32.7 and 30 day is 28.5 4 days later the 30 day is at 26.4


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