Probably for the first time....I was super excited to get my Duke Energy bill. This is one of the first bills to really show all my energy efficiency work. What was the results?
Last month I used 526 kWh. That's lowest we've had since moving in and equals 17.53 kWh/d. That's even lower than the previous month (593 kWh) when we didn't use the HVAC at all.
How are we doing compared to last year?
March 2010 vs 2011: 34% less <---some heating until late in the month
April 2010 vs 2011: 4% less <---didn't use HVAC at all
May 2010 vs 2011: 41% less <---cooling started late in the month
Just awesome! I'm thrilled...it's showing all that work is cashing in.
I also decided to compare my energy usage between this home (built 1986, 2700 sf) versus our old townhome (built 2005, 1300 sf). Note for the "old" townhome I had to convert natural gas usage to electricity equivalent because both hot water heater and cooking used natural gas. It's an easy conversion...if you want to know...ask. OK here's the total energy consumption between the two places:
Feb 2011 vs Feb 2009: 26% less
Mar 2011 vs Mar 2009: 39% less
Apr 2011 vs Apr 2009: 22% less
May 2011 vs May 2009: 26% less
How awesome is that? Our older, larger home is more energy efficiency than the newer, smaller, townhome. Frickin' awesome. I'm excited to see what the next bill shows...until July!!!
So how does the bill compare? Less?
ReplyDeleteThis year's bills vs last year's bills were lower. I'd have to look at the old bills to compare for my old place versus my new place. Although, natural gas is significantly cheaper than electricity on an equivalent basis (~$0.98/therm = 0.033/kWh) so I would expect my old place still had lower overall bills. But you never know...it could be close. I might just have to check it out...
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