How much is your electricity?? $1 a Kwh??
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HeyJoe@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I moved into an all electric house over 10 years ago and it was awful back then with it being avg $500 a month. This past year ive been paying $1100 a month. I do not have a huge place and outside of a few pcs and tvs i really dont use much so it pisses me off. To broke to change or put solar up. We just decided to move so ill be thrilled when this shitshow is not my problem anymore.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Its a payment plan since i cant afford the winter months peak when I have to use electric heating. Its also an older house and needs some real improvements to insulation and new windows. I also wish i could upgrade the electric heating since i do believe even that have better options as well. All things I could never get to sadly, but now that were selling I will be really happy not having to think about all of that ever again. Ive been keeping track and in summer it’s actually $300. Winter is brutal sadly.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Sorry to say it like this but is there any way you can cut back? Getting a heat pump can help but you can also turn things off, use less heat, etc. I am wondering if there might be something wrong $1000 a month sounds wrong. Do you have family?
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yeah this sounds like they’re getting royally fucked.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
How are you spending more in a month than I do in a year? Also fully electric, had the gas disconnected before I moved in. Is your rate like $5/kWh or something?
Rate here is around £0.24/kWh, spending £89/month currently. It would probably be less if I didn’t like long warm showers.
tomi000@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
If this is seroiously your current situation, the “cant afford solar” part does not make sense. If you pay 500$ a month for electricity, buying a solar panel for roughly 100$ should be easy. It will cut your electricity for the next month by 30-50$ and save you money after 3.
Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
If his winter heating need is that large he may live in an area where solar does not produce that much electricity during winter. I myself live in an area that has 0 (yes zero) sunlight for one winter month because of the polar night and just 1-4 hours of very low intensity sunlight for the rest of the 5 month long winter. In summer when we have midnight sun, literally 24 hour sunlight, the electricity is almost free so whatever the solar panel produces then is near useless. Also you simply don’t use that much in that season. For me at least it’s not really a worthwhile investment.
tomi000@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If it was 1100$ on average this year, I dont think thats 2200$ in winter and 0$ during summer. Even if its 300 during summer those solar panels pay for themselves after a few months
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Are you running a fusion reactor?
Phunter@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I run a fusion reactor and a fission reactor. I’d feel bad not putting things back the way I found them.