March Electric Bill - How did we do?
In case you’re wondering whether the methods I’m using are making a real difference, starting this month I’ll publish our family’s monthly electricity usage. In addition to tracking my usage, this will keep me accountable to reducing our home energy bills. Below are the details of our March bill (received in April). Our house is all-electric, except for gas used for cooking.
Electricity Usage 3/7/08 - 4/8/08:
Kilowatt Hours: 2,442
Kilowatt Hours per square foot: .79
Electric Bill in $: $150.14
Electric Bill in $ per square foot: $0.05
March was a great month. We reduced our usage over the prior month by 450 kilowatt hours. The reduction is primarily due to mild weather during the month. Our HVAC system did not run much during the month. All of the design features we made in the construction of our house have really made the difference. Although it is hard to compare energy usage across homes, friends of mine with similar sized houses routinely report electric/gas bills that are double ours. Please take a moment to review the posts concerning how we built our house. Stay tuned for the next couple of weeks as I continue to write about great ways to save energy around the house.
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