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 04-01-2009, 12:44 Post: 161619
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I celebrated by wandering around the woods, selecting a tree, and, um, watering it.






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Murf, methinks your meter is broken. We used 4011 kWh last month with LP hot water, dryer and cooking. And we live in a pretty tight and energy efficient house that has above average insulation and has passed all Energy Smart tests (blower door and duct blaster tests). We turn off all lights when not in use, many of them are automatically controlled. The only appliances on all the time are two refrigerators (relatively new ones). We do have a well and septic pump but they are checked every couple of months and seem to cycle normally. Of course there are a couple luxuries like in-floor heat in the master bath (~100 watts) and the occasional use of a space heater or electric blanket by the wife.

BTW, I don't know how they get those numbers. If they are a "per-meter" value instead of a "per residence" value it will be misleading since lots of rentals are not independently metered.






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Our annual low is somewhere around 1500 kWh. Last month is about worst case, very cold weather at the end of a long, cold winter when the stupid geothermal heat pump condenser loop field heat has been largely depleted. It's also a fairly big house at ~3600 sf.






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Murf, I was thinking about your electric bill. You mentioned a pool. If the pool has a half horsepower motor that would use somewhere around 1kwh. On our pool we had to run the circulating pump about 8 hours/day IIRC. If you do the same that's 8 kwh/day, or 240 kwh/month just for the pool pump.

So at 85kwh/month total billing it seems you're getting quite a deal. Maybe you know somebody at the electric company? Smile






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