I got my electric bill today!!

[dustytools]

Total KWH for this month=1386, averages out to 40 per day for 34 days service. Last month=1384, averages out to 46 per day for 30 days of service. This period last year=4250 averages out to 137 per day for 31 days of service. I love my wood stove!!!

 

[Wood Doctor]

Total KWH for this month=1386, averages out to 40 per day for 34 days service. Last month=1384, averages out to 46 per day for 30 days of service. This period last year=4250 averages out to 137 per day for 31 days of service. I love my wood stove!!!

Imagine what it would cost to shut down the wood stove and heat your house with electric resistance heat! Ever added it up?

Figure 50,000 BTU/Hr for the wood stove and 3413 BTU per KWH, a dime per KWH, and then take it from there. Got your calculator handy?

 

[dustytools]

I live in a total electric home with a split system electric furnace. Cost per day for this billing cycle was $3.65. Cost per day for this billing cycle last year was $10.79.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I live in a total electric home with a split system electric furnace. Cost per day for this billing cycle was $3.65. Cost per day for this billing cycle last year was $10.79.

That sounds about right. $7.10/day x 30 days = $213 per month (now tucked safely in Dusty's bank). I save about half that but only because electricity is twice as expensive, if not more, than natural gas. In June, that was not the case. Now NG is a horrendous bargain.

 

[wkpoor]

We rarely have 100.00 monthly bill any time of the year and that is actual. This year since we are heating 100% on wood that is our only utility bill. Coarse I don't dare figure in the cost of the chainsaws and equipment to gather wood plus all the time it takes. I'll have to do this for many years to come to actually have a true pay back.

 

[bigbadbob]

I only burn wood at my cabin as my home is $70 for gas and $70 for electric average for the year.
Not worth it to install a wood burner.

 

[bore_pig]

We rarely have 100.00 monthly bill any time of the year and that is actual. This year since we are heating 100% on wood that is our only utility bill. Coarse I don't dare figure in the cost of the chainsaws and equipment to gather wood plus all the time it takes. I'll have to do this for many years to come to actually have a true pay back.

What you are describing is only partially true. Had you not spent your money on saws, you would have spent it on something else. On top of that, the time you spend making wood is keeping you from spending time (and money) on other things that may or may not be of importance. The way I see it, spend $600 on a sawing equipment this year, save about $1300 per year ($50 at the bar once every 2 weeks) for the next ten years.

 

[K7NUT]

I live in a total electric home with a split system electric furnace. Cost per day for this billing cycle was $3.65. Cost per day for this billing cycle last year was $10.79.

Congrats!
Thats Awesome, I hope mine will show a great decrease in Electric cost too!

 

[Dalmatian90]

My electric bill today would be under $100/month.

Except I live in the electric pork me state. I think it's us and Hawaii that tie for the highest electric costs in the nation. And Hawaii has a legitimate excuse.

 

[stihl025]

Just got our electric bill. The house is completely electric with well water. I have an Englander 30NC in the basement to heat the house from below. We used an average of 34 kW per day compared to last year this tme of 66 kW per day. Average dailey temp this year was 26 degrees compared to last year at 32 degrees. I am very pleased so far. Now, if I can only heat the water from the wood stove...

 

[dustytools]

Just got our electric bill. The house is completely electric with well water. I have an Englander 30NC in the basement to heat the house from below. We used an average of 34 kW per day compared to last year this tme of 66 kW per day. Average dailey temp this year was 26 degrees compared to last year at 32 degrees. I am very pleased so far. Now, if I can only heat the water from the wood stove...

Sounds good. I too wish that I could rid myself of some or all of my water heating bill.

 

[woodcutter69]

I am trying to save money with wood heat, but I dont know if I am or not. I have a all electric house, but the electric heat is rated at .05 cents a kwh, and everything else is rated at .14 cents a kwh. I bought a kill-watt meter and fiqured out that it cost me between .45 cents a day to run the wood furnace. about $15 a month. My electric bill with the wood furnace on is around $50 a month just for the heat part of it. the other part of the electric bill runs around $150. the wood furnace is running on the normal electric rate. can someone please tell me that I am saving money.

 

[woodcutter69]

By the way I am trying to heat 3000 sq ft. the furnace is only rated to heat 1500 sq ft. And actually the furnace does do a pretty good job of keeping up with most of the electric heat shut off. I have individual thermostats in each room for the electric heat and only have 2 of them on. 1 in the kids room and the living room where we spend most of the time.

 

[MishMouse]

The gas man came last week.
30 gallons of propain used during the month of Jan.
So far since the heating season began in late September (actually we had a few days of frost in August) I used about 100 gallons of propain. I use it for heating and cooking. Before I got the Harman TL-300 I was using over 250gallons a month. My electric usage has also dropped between 20-25%.

 

[alderman]

Electric bill

Big cold spell here in PNW this month. 41 day cycle and bill was $87 which is higher than it normally runs. I'm thinking if I were really conservative I could cut a year's worth of wood with 2 or 3 gallons of fuel and a gallon of bar oil.

Fortunately we have the cheapest electric rates around.

 

[deer slayer]

Myself, I had all electric. In my second year of gas fired furnace and a jotule 400. electric is less than half (from $200.00 + to $70.00-$80.00) just purchased a new 460 mag $800.00 wife went crazy. my point is I have had my gas refilled once (1) in two years, saving an average of $100.00 + a month in electric and I can maintain my house at 74 to 78 degrees on the coldest of days. I make sure there's plenty of wood, near and ready to burn when i'm not home. the furnace only comes on when were gone for a couple of days which is rare. someone stated on another post.
"chain saw $500.00, gas $50.00, maintenance $50.00, splitter $ 1500.00, time spent together doing all this and enjoying it by a warm fire...... PRICELESS!!!!!!"

 

[siduramaxde]

I'm in an all electric house with a geo thermal heating and cooling system. I also have a Fireplace extrodinare that will heat the whole house with ease. Last month my electric bill was $180 and I didn't even use the fire place. I would say average temps are in the 20-30 degree range around here this month. My house is newer (5 years old) and is about 1800sqf plus I have a full finished basement.

I haven't started the fireplace this year due to my 18 month old son. I'm afraid he will burn himself. So the Geo thermal must run. Last month the cost to heat the house was $51. At that price I would rather work more at my business instead of cutting wood. I can make more $ working at my business per hour than I can saving $ by burnibg wood. Plus, I don't have the mess to deal with in the house and my back doesn't hurt.

All this being said, I love wood heat and I will be burning next year when the kid knows better.

 

[dustytools]

I'm in an all electric house with a geo thermal heating and cooling system. I also have a Fireplace extrodinare that will heat the whole house with ease. Last month my electric bill was $180 and I didn't even use the fire place. I would say average temps are in the 20-30 degree range around here this month. My house is newer (5 years old) and is about 1800sqf plus I have a full finished basement.

I haven't started the fireplace this year due to my 18 month old son. I'm afraid he will burn himself. So the Geo thermal must run. Last month the cost to heat the house was $51. At that price I would rather work more at my business instead of cutting wood. I can make more $ working at my business per hour than I can saving $ by burnibg wood. Plus, I don't have the mess to deal with in the house and my back doesn't hurt.

All this being said, I love wood heat and I will be burning next year when the kid knows better.

How did you seperate the bill to determine that $51 was the heating portion of $180.

 

[siduramaxde]

How did you seperate the bill to determine that $51 was the heating portion of $180.

The Geo thermal is on a seperate meter and my electric coop gives me a lower price on the geo

 

[Dok]

Last month we went through the house with the kill-a-watt and found some energy hogs (printers on standby are terrible!). We replaced most of the light bulbs with CFL's. We replaced the electric dryer with a gas dryer. The electric would run for 90 min and still not dry the towels. We got our electric bill, $62, about half the previous month's. Our KWh/day is down to 17.0, compared to 25.4 last year.

Our propane bill will go up a bit with the gas dryer. We hang dry our clothes as much as we can. We haven't seen the propane truck since Nov. Hopefully prices have gone down since the last fillup.
Dok