Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Ours is not as high, because our house is smaller I think. We also use gas AC and hotwater heater too.

June 2005 2,590 $217.29
May 2005 2,161 $156.81
April 2005 1,707 $127.77
March 2005 1,233 $94.50
February 2005 1,301 $98.69
January 2005 1,592 $116.59
December 2004 1,367 $101.57
November 2004 1,933 $135.99
October 2004 2,557 $174.00
September 2004 2,150 $173.86
August 2004 1,957 $158.84
July 2004 2,009 $163.11
June 2004 1,846 $149.53

The June-June comparo there shows we're using slightly less power... I think that's a direct result of not having the MH's or the skimmer running... that should be around 1000w savings all total.

Brandon, when did you guys move into your 'new' house? I remember some A/C problems, probably resulting in a low bill for that month.

July of last year. I prob just turned the a/c off alltogether during September of last year and just don't remember it

Remember? We had a hurricane during September, no power for a week

ding ding we have a winner!!! forgot all about that.

hahahahahaha

We just got a $393 power bill for June. I'm looking forward to July and August also. I guess we'll have to sweat a little more. The KWH adjustment cost was $43 which we didn't have last year. We're still paying for Ivan.

Please someone explain what this KWH adjustment cost is.

The power companies pass extra expences or savings along to the customer. This is how they do it. You'd probably have to go back before Ivan to see any credits.

max wrote:We just got a $393 power bill for June. I'm looking forward to July and August also. I guess we'll have to sweat a little more. The KWH adjustment cost was $43 which we didn't have last year. We're still paying for Ivan.

Dang Max.. you Win

no kidding! Makes me glad I live in a little tiny 1500 s.f. house

Yeah sounds like our power bills, a 1.5ton and 4.5ton unit.

My power bill jumped up over $100.00 once I converted to halides. As mentioned above, a lot of that is contributed to the AC. I have a bran new AC that I keep on 68 degrees. You can almost breath frost in the morning but once the tank lights come on, the whole house will heat up to almost 80 degrees. I do not like the high power bill, but I like even less the fact that my AC is wide open and I am sweating. I have resorted in having my tank lights on in the hours I am at work so sometimes I may go 2 weeks without seeing my tank lit.

Jeremy

yeah, we had the same problem, our A/C isn't that good even w/out the halides... we had to run the halides late at night, so we could see it for a few hours before bed with the lights on... now we can run a daytime schedule with the VHO's.