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Originally Posted by MN Renovator

One person in 2012.
2100 sq ft.
Natural gas stove/oven, water heater and furnace. Clothes dryer is electric.
I have a 2 ton(22k compressor) 8.5 SEER air conditioner and it usually runs a minimum of two hours in the three hottest months of the year. Most days between 2-4 hours, some of the hottest days 6-8 hours. I swapped the shaded pole motor in the furnace out with a higher efficiency but still low cost PSC motor. (I measured about 740cfm at 396 watts).
I usually live in the lower level but not the basement where the temperature is usually in the 74-76 with that sort of AC usage. I turn off lights when I leave rooms, I don't run the oven after the start of June through the start of September. I use a laptop instead of a desktop and I turn it off when I'm not using it but it is usually being used at least 8 hours a day on days that I'm not at work.

Some other things that aren't tied to electric usage such as not having the stove on high when you've got a pot of boiling water over it in the summer. Never do that, great way to make your AC usage go sky high caused by two reasons. If I make thin pasta(7-10 min recommended on the package), I use an electric kettle to boil the water, pour the water in the pan with the pasta, run the stove for one minute on high or until it starts the starch foam, turn off the stove completely, return in 7 minutes and your pasta is cooked.

Even with having natural gas your electric usage is impressive.