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Originally Posted by SuperGreg

You don't count since the average temperature in SD is 75 ;)

Not lately since summer started its been unusually hot, but JonK (who started this thread) lives in OC and should have the same general climate as we do since hes only 80 miles north of me. Even if I tripled my bill to factor in the larger size of his house i'd still be at 300.00?

June was $23.40. That's including the monthly charge of $20 for maintenance. I only used $3.40 in kilowatts. I don't need AC this close to Lake Superior. Our days are really long so the lights are on very little. In the winter I use about $20 in Kw. I have all wood heat so $200 worth of propane lasts me over 4 years.(water heater and gas cooking stove) My firewood is free that I cut myself on my 92 acres bordering the national forest.

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Originally Posted by B&DCalgary

How old is your house, and how large? There's no way a house built to today's standards should cost that much to keep cool in the summer (or conversely keep warm in the winter). My house (3,500 sq.ft.), built three years ago with low solar heat gain windows and properly insulated costs less than $100 for electricity in the summer with full a/c and my highest gas bill for heat (last January) was $87. It sounds like you either have a monster house or it's old enough that it's framed with 2x4's instead of 2x6's, has low quality windows, and/or isn't insulated to the same standard as today's houses. When I'm talking of standards, I'm referring of course to Canadian construction standards (seeing as you're from Edmonton), which are considerably higher than U.S. standards and several times more energy efficient.

Thanks for the input all of you.
3500 SQF + 500 SQF office 12' Ceilings. Only Two yrs old 5 and 3 ton Central Air and the other one for the office, all damn airconditioners has very good efficiency rating.
I've got all bells and whistles when I got this home, including tinted glasses and top of the line windows. Our builder, William Lions don't do the cheap job.
I have a supersized ceiling fans in every single rooms. The airfilter system we have that we hardly run. We paid way over million for this home.

It bugs the heck out of me when my house keeper makes stews during the daytime w/o the fan on and blasting airconditioners.

I'll check with the builder to see we have better options of insulating my home. I am looking into solar power since we got plenty of suns out here. It should payoff in long run. I'll also look into SCE rate schedule. Obvioiusly it penalizes me for being anoveruser.

Thanks again. I keep you posted as I come up with solutions.:thumbup:

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Originally Posted by benathon

I don't have AC...

You're really loving life right now with temps over 100 in Denver right now :mad:

p.s. I'l be in Denver (Parker) from the 29th of this month for 5 days.

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Originally Posted by JonK

Do you know what your R-Value (insulation value) is in your walls and ceiling?

I got the new bills yesterday. (8/16/2006) Mere $661. It didn't break the 1G mark as I expected. They say everyone will get automatic 90 extension but I think I'll pay off before I forget about them.

Here in Appalachia in the state that is the greatest net exporter of electricity in the US (and coincidentally, one of the biggest coal producers), my electricity runs $100/month and my natural gas (also in abundant quantities) is right about the same. So figure roughly $200/month all year long to cool/heat a ~3000 square foot home and a big-ass attached garage. Not complaining, since I work in the energy industry, and business is good :)

$225.00 on a 711 sq ft apt :angryfire

I just paid it yesterday, it was $117. I have about 2500sq. ft. townhouse and I turn the AC off completely during the day, set it to about 72 from 7-midnight and 75 from midnight to 6, then off again.