Electricity usage??

[ozwinner]

14.82c per Kwh
$46 supply cost per 1/4.

Al

[echnidna]

Electric hot water, big bugger which daughter can run out in one shower (one hour) and wasj\hing machine is on twice a day.

Iain, some caravan parks use a shower head which limits the hotwater to about 5 minutes use. Put one of them on and it must be your old hot water unit wearing out when she runs out of hot water.
(I think the Tooradin Caravan Park uses them)

[craigb]

No idea. The missus pays the bill.

Anyway, does it matter?

Whatever it costs to be cool/warm and run your tools and appliances is what it costs, innit?

Are you planning on economising?

The cost of electricity and the cost of water, they both seem cheap to me.

[Termite]

2 people....all electric, including reverse cycle aircon, and shed tools......average $230.00/1/4 less $28.00 pensioner discount.

[Grunt]

2 people....all electric, including reverse cycle aircon, and shed tools......average $230.00/1/4 less $28.00 pensioner discount.

That is a lot of electricity for 2 termites.

[Barry_White]

My average is $180.00 a quarter except last quarter it jumped to $295 without any explanation. This is for two people.

Have solar hot water in the summer and slow combustion stove for cooking and water heating in the winter with back up electricity.

Wood heating in the winter with occasional 2400 watt electric heater.


Rural Rates first 950 units @ 17.03 cents a unit
balance of units @ 18.45 cents a unit
Service availability charge @ 44.78 cents per day all including GST

So Macca at 12.67 cents a unit you are doing well.

[E. maculata]

$460-$500 per quarter, family of four, *all mod cons, *large residence, pool pumps, *air/con, *electric everything, often & well used "workshop"
* denotes, these will change in the new year

Thanks Major for making me feel better, for years we have been seen as electrical extravagants' by all around us.

[Shedhand]

In Tassie my winter account was 435 bucks for the quarter. Two of us. 2 x 2.4kwh panel heaters. All electric home. Plus my shed but i have no big machines as yet. Summer is usually around 150 bucks. The difference would be the cost of firewood if we were so irresponsible as to burn wood.:mad: So I figure the power cost is pretty reasonable.

[Ian007]

around the $850 to $900 dollar mark in winter:eek: for the 3 months and just got my power bill yesterday for the last three months which was $389

family of seven, three phase air con unit used for heating in winter, which gets used a lot more in winter than in summer, plus a shed full of power tools

hope that makes you all feel better.

Cheers Ian

[journeyman Mick]

We have electric hot water (off peak) and electric everything else including a bore pump to draw water from 30+M and a booster pump to run it to the taps. A couple of 3 phase machines and a shed full of machines, tools and about 600W of lights which run for about 2 days full time per week. Usual power bill is about $145 per 1/4 but last one jumped to $360+ :eek: However ther's been an increase in the tarriffs, SWMBO has been crook and in the bedroom with the AC on pretty much full time and the increase also coincides with the installation and usage of the two 3 phase machines (panel saw-6kw and edgebander 5kw).

Like Craig says, there's not much you can really do about it anyway. I've got a 2ndhand solar HWS I'll get around to fitting one of these days but it won't make much difference as we on;y pay about $35 per 1/4 for hot water. If anything I'd like to minimise our usage to lessen our environmental impact.

Mick

[ozwinner]

Like Craig says, there's not much you can really do about it anyway.

I wasnt trying to be a scrooge about power useage, I think electricity i way too cheep, thats why ppl leave lights on all day.

If anything I'd like to minimise our usage to lessen our environmental impact.

Now thats a good idea, when/if we move I might fit some solar panels just for lighting.

You can also get solar bore pumps Mick


It still looks like $100 per person per 1/4

Al

[Grunt]

If you want solar power, you need big bright balls.

Sunball

[bitingmidge]

No pool, no air con, no heating (house is designed properly and insulated )

Squllions of lights, all on dimmers.

Electric off peak HW.

Two people mostly, up to 14 on a big weekend.

Machinery never used, but nice to know that it's there.

Average $220 per quarter.

I reckon if we got really tight about turning off lights we could save a third without even noticing the difference.

Cheers,

P

[ozwinner]

Here is a good book to get hold of if you are at all concerned about you enviroument impact to the planet.

Its put out by the Federal gov, I got a copy of it 2 years ago at a trade show.
But the entire volume is available here.
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/yourhome/

OK, so Im a closet greenie.

Al

[Harry72]

Mines about $120-150!(2 people)
Gas water/cooking/heating... what confuses me is my bill only went up about 10 bucks when I started using all my machinery!(up to 6hp Tsaw & dusty together)