Wow...I sure have been slacking on the ole' blog front. My bad...
Anyhow, I got in our latest energy bill for December (OK...really its for November, but the bill date is December). Here's the results:
Total kWH = 963 (2010 = 1374)
Days = 30
Avg kWh/d = 32.10/day (2010 = 45.8 kWh/d)
% Savings vs 2010 = 29.9%
% Savings compared to former 1300 sf townhome = 108.3%
OK...so the trend continues. We've consistently been around 30-40% savings versus 2010 while using about the same energy as our former (half-sized) townhome.
Winter promises to hold the largest savings. Look at the energy used last year:
Jan 2010 = 3,224 kWh (94.8 kWh/d)
Feb 2010 = 1967 kWh (70.2 kWh/d)
The largest energy usage day we've had was a couple days ago. It was in the high 30s, low 40s....we did 4 loads of laundry (re: dryer) ...and we cooked a lot. On that day we used 60 kWh. Our largest average month (July) has been 32.9 kWh/d. So keeping up with this pattern would mean that we're looking at the potential for savings in the range of 50-67%. Only time will tell how well we do.
UPDATE: We actually used 68.7 kWh last Sunday. And we're back to our normal ~32 kWh/d since then. That's the penalty for not doing laundry the previous weekend. It all works out in the "big picture" anyway.
ReplyDeleteAlso note that TED5000 reported 1009 kWh for the month vs the 963 reported by Duke Energy. That's a 4.6% so pretty good given that the meter reading days did not align.