Reliant must die a slow painful embarassing death.

Bring back some semblance of regulation please.

I'm at work most of the week, saves me a lot on my energy bill.

Same as it is most months: About $35.

Nothing but rent :D

giz, you need a 'live in your parents basement' option

Are the 12 people who pay >$1000 per month growing pot in the basement? WTF?

@bandit: they are living at al gore's house.

@bandit: Apparently, although I suppose technically it's their parents basement.

@bandit: They're poll trolls.

I've had solar panels for just over 6 months, and on a year-over-year basis, they are producing more electricity than my household and business are consuming. Helps me feel less guilty about leaving my computers on all the time.

@liquidsoapdispenser:

So you pay nothing. Do you sell some back?

How much were the panels and how big is your home?

no idea. It's part of my "rent" (no, I don't live with roomates/parents, I just pay $1020 for my studio/electricity/etc)

Thank god!

$47.

I actually lived in my last house where i had $600- 900 energy bills. Needless to say, I moved. Now were doin' fine in the $60- 150 range.

The electricity one isn't the part I worry about it's the flippin gas that hurts.

...when I say gas I mean gas as in NOT for cars gas but natural gas

@oo0cyst0oo: Yikes, how did the hosue manage to do that?

35 bucks?
45 bucks?

How in the world?

Well i live in Miami,FL and my bill last month was 165.
I do have 2 desktops,home server running all the time.
PLUS AC you need it downhere in miami without it
your toast.

Is this in USD?

I have tricked out my home with energy efficient appliances and keep a surge protector on all my electronics. My bill was $25 for april.

It's easy to save lots of money. Just don't be stupid us a surge protector.

Oh yeah, and that is 100% Clean, Wind power too! I'm going to go hug my tree outside now.

@GenNove: I was sort of wondering the same thing. I am up to about $80 a month but am not home during the week, have a smallish place (1ksqft) and don't run a air conditioner.

Hooray for Nebraska and one of the lowest energy rates in the country!

@Singlespeed: Gotta love OPPD. ;)

Well, doesn't make much sense my vote since I live in Brazil, but it is about 50 to 60USDs.
Which is TOO MUCH for someone living alone.

It's more than half the bill I had while living with my mother, in a house almost 4 times as big as my current apartment.

But my old laptop is on 24/7, it is colder here so I have to spend more with hot showers and stuff.

So it's not that far off.

@junkmail: Ah, someone on the other side of the Platte I see.

I'd give anything if regulation would come back to Texas. I never was for deregulation anyways. A-Holes in my state, now instead of having to settle for 5 cents a kilowatt power I get to choose between 14 cents a kilowatt and 16 cents a kilowatt, plus if I need anywork done at all I have to wait a week. Same goes for the phone service. Stupid deregulation.

@ferris209:

You sir, are correct.

TXU charges me about 0.13 an hour even though I keep my usage down around 650kWhrs. They charge less if you use over 1500kWhrs. So they are actually penalizing people for saving energy. My uncle in Louisiana is still paying only $0.07 a kWhr. Yea, that de-regulation crap has really helped us.

But its ok, I'm only going to be cutting my usage even more. I've gotten into the habit of unplugging my gadgets AND switching off the surge protector they are plugged into. I've got a radiant barrier in the attic and the Solar Screens are just waiting on HOA approval.

@Cordfucious: I switched over to Direct Energy from Reliant, and it's been better, but I don't think anything is going to be good this summer.

544 kWh @ $0.12 in Ft. Lauderdale = $65. Is it true that there are really places around the country at $0.07/kWh??! I picked the wrong damn state to live in.

@SgtBeavis: I've got the solar screens on the back of my house. One of my neighbors sealed in his entire attic with that foam insulation stuff, and he's claiming it cut his cooling costs by more than half, but I'm wondering what the ramification of sealing off all those vent holes would be.

I dunno how to answer this because my bill was estimated for April, it was quoted as $90+, and I had credit left over from the last time that they over-estimated.

$77.82. I've been as low as $60 and as high as $150 due to electric co shennanigans.

Out here, they have something called a "baseline allowance". Basically, sell a certain amount of energy for a low price, but use over that and the price per kWh jumps significantly (about 170% looking at my current bill).

The problem is, the baseline changes (You're allowed more kWh in the winter).

Soooo, when it's winter time, and I'm running the heater electricity. My bill is low (around $90-$100).

It's even lower right now ($77) because winter in San Diego has been rather warm so I haven't even been running the heater.

In the summer, I hardly ever run the AC (I like it hot, it would have to hit 85+ degrees outside), but because of the baseline shifting, my bill remains about the same ($90-$100) despite using less energy.

If I actually do run the AC in the summer time, the bill jumps into the $120-$130 range.

/what's worse is the cost per kWh changes throughout the year as well. So I've got a shifting baseline allowance, and a shifting cost for both the baseline and the regular electric charge.

/thankfully, no gas bill :P

US$95 at today's rate. I live in Santiago, Chile; and the price of electricity has almost doubled in the last couple of years.

Also, my house doesn't have any AC and the water heater is tankless.

HummerMan3: 544 kWh @ $0.12 in Ft. Lauderdale = $65. Is it true that there are really places around the country at $0.07/kWh?

These bills are damn confusing

I have eight lines with dollar signs and different numbers ranging from $.0267 to $.0988. But no damn clue what the two different sections of the bill mean.

see page two of their sample bill [www.sdge.com] (PDF)

In the ELEC/DR section, there are two blocks of numbers. One block doesn't have any totals in the right hand column, the other doesn't.

I don't know what the difference is between the two blocks.

I'm in the $251-300 range, mostly because of the swimming pool and the filter that has to run six hours a day.

how about electric + gas bill? my electric is steady at 65$ +/- $5 a month, but gas goes up to $200 in the dead of winter

$55 for the whole utility bill (gas too), AND I have a hot tub. What the *$&$^ are you people running?

Redwood City, CA so no AC though...

uhm. the question should be how many kwh did you use last month.

imo.

I used 403kWh. at a final cost of about 40USD. That was down from last April at 427kWh!

@playaj: I haven't yet seen how the LA DWP will handle the net production in electricity. In the winter months the system produced slightly less than we consumed, so I've only seen that end so far. But for the past few weeks the system has been generating about 10 kWh more than we consume each day. Our house is 1900 sq ft, but it's 3 stories, so our roof is pretty small. So the 24 panels cover most of it. The system cost me $24K (not including my $2K federal tax credit). The total system was about $48K, but local rebates covered the other half.

80 Bones, with computers, 56 inch bigscreen, AVR, etc... AC always on at least 75 - 74...

Oh how I love spring time in Maryland. I'm not running any heat or AC, so my electric bill is down a lot. Seeing how our electric rates have gone up around 75% here in the last couple years I hoping for a long and mild spring.

People just remember if you're trying to conserve electricity cut back where you're using the most and if you live in an all electric house this is probably how your usage is broken up.

Heat or A/C = 50%
Water Heater = 25%
Major Appliances = 20%
Lights = 5%

Google "Olduvai Theory"
The 2003 blackout was just a taste...

$66.87.

I know because this article totally just reminded me that I hadn't paid it yet...

baltwade

Heat or A/C = 50% = not run in the summer (when my bill is higher)

Water Heater = 25% The condo has boilers that serve all 92 units. So this is part of my HOA fee, not part of my electric bill.

Major Appliances = 20% yep

Lights = 5% yep

A more useful breakdown.

The actual cost of the Electricity = 30%
Damned taxes = 30%
BS regulatory fees 10%
Line maintenance = 5%
Who knows? = 24%
Some fee they're collecting for the water company for some reason 1%

569 kWh last month => $79.47

just shy of 3000 KWH last month ... $124. You've got to love coal/nuclear derived power and time-of-day rates. Nights and weekends are 1.9 cents/kwh, so a vast majority of my use happens during those hours. It doesn't work for people who are home a lot during the day, but for night owls like me, it's a great set up.

First, I had to vote three times before I saw the results, that's getting annoying now.

Second, it was between $101-$120. Who had the $1000+ bills?

I'm getting jealous of all the rates people are quoting. I just got this month's bill, and I'm already at $193. I'll most likely top $400/month by August.

You can't not run A/C in Houston. Well, you could, but you'd earn the nickname Sweatyback and nobody would ever stop by your house.

@GeekyNerdGuy: Direct Energy has a slid