Jesus christ dude how does your bill get that high?? My AC thermostat is at 75 degrees day and night, I have 11k gallon pool with two pumps/motors , that come on every night, I run two 1000W HPS 12/12 and my electric bill is in the high 300's - low 400's.
Who knows. I thought my last house was bad ($350-$450 avg).
I have my thermostat set at 78 and it can't hold it, it is usually in the 80-81 range.
I live in a 4,500sf home. Two AC units, lots of lights, running the well for irrigation (it has a monster pump), etc.
Since having my indoor grow (2x 1000w) the fucking bill jumped a lot more than I thought it would since my AC can't keep up and runs most of the day (I am assuming this is a large portion of the increased bill).
However I never have a power bill here lower than $500/month. My record bill until the last month was $700. It jumped $300 over last months bill.
I would LOVE to be able to decrease my monthly power usage. I have been looking into the portable AC units for the grow room to cut the AC off back here. However I have no place to vent a portable AC. Anyone have any other ideas?
I have a decent sized house (approx 2000sqft) and keep my air at 78 daily. At night I will cool it to 75. I also have 2k watts in a room with an 11k btu portable a/c (keep that at 77) and I recently had the biggest bill which was 480. You must be in maricopa or on a mpower box because $830 is ridiculous. Sounds like you are paying $0.15 or more per kilowatt.
Yeah I agree, VERY ridiculous. Not in Maricopa. Unsure what a mpower box is. Does my bill show me what I am paying per kilowatt on average? I am going to dig it up and take a look.