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| Connor Thomas |
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| Lillian Hope |
Needless to say, a lot has changed in my household. For the purposes of my blog, we'll just focus on the electricity usage. Wow...it's increased just a wee bit. Yes, there's some sarcasm in there. I need to hold the temperature in my house to 72F which is chewing up a good bit of energy. And I'm washing/drying at least 2-3x more than normal. Such little clothes...but boy it adds up fast! And then there's hot water usage form having to hand wash bottles every 3 hours.
All I can say is that it's a dang good thing I worked hard on all my energy efficiency work prior! The GE Geospring water heater in conjunction with the geothermal desuperheater has been TONKA. FYI, running the A/C more results in more desuperheater usage, thus more hot water generation.
Anyhow, my September Bill results are below. I'm skipping the HDD/CDD analysis because I don't have time to do it. Maybe I'll come back later and add it back in.
September 2012 (Aug 3 - Sept 5)
Total Consumed: 816 kWh
Days in Month: 33
Avg Daily Consumption: 24.73 kWh/day
Bill: $91.17
September 2013 (Aug 2 - Sept 4)
Total Consumed: 771 kWh
Days in Month: 33
Avg Daily Consumption: 23.36 kWh/day (5.5% reduction from 2012)
Bill: $84.14 (~$7 savings vs 2012)
So, I still realized a savings versus 2012. Although I only had the babies home for less than half the month. September is already looking like a blow-out. According to TED, I've used 390 kWh (Avg 33.33 kWh/d) and we're only 13 days in. Last year, I used 409 kWh for the entire month. Yeah...it's going to be a big value.
I will say that I am looking at solar panels again. I still need to convince myself that they are worthwhile. Right now, it's looking like a 13-yr ROI only looking at energy reduction. If I include increase in home value that plummets to 1 year. But I guess it all depends on what you believe for numbers.
