Ask HN: How is everyone electric bill looking like?

[dorcy]

Since last year, my electric bill has spiked by over $200 (currently $500/month). This is way bigger than the gas issue, and no one is covering it. I am having to turn on only one monitor at a time to save costs.

I know the summers in Texas have been hot with the Air Conditioners, but this spike is unbelievable.

[Kon-Peki]

There’s probably a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of energy efficiency improvements you could make.

Many of them don’t cost much money and will show an immediate impact. When you do that, switching to a heat pump is cheaper because you don’t need as large of a system. When you go solar, it’s cheaper because you don’t need as many panels or microinverters.

Our local utility sends out an energy scorecard ever 6 months that tells you how you compare to nearby houses of the same size. We’ve managed to get our house into the lowest 10% consumption group, and yet we still could do better with insulation.

[john_the_writer]

Near zero (sometimes electric co owes me)

Solar on the roof is awesome.

[stop50]

Its looking ok. Renewables lowered the costs us, despite our bad power managment. At least its not that bad as the Texan system.

[King-Aaron]

Next question please