HELCO bill

[rocketman]

Anyone want to share how much their HELCO bill is every month with a new home owner? Just bought a little house in Shores Rec Estates and that electric water heater scares me. Just two of us living there, no AC or dishwasher.
Thanks

[dayna]

We have solar hot water. No ac or dishwasher. Ours is between $100 and $130 a month for a family of three.

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com

[jlgerk]

HPP, 2 people, no dishwasher, no cloths washer, no AC, water heater on timer for two 5 hr cycles per day, yes elc. stove, yes frig. , yes computer on most all day, fans when real hot, very few lights, usually about $85 a month.

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[kimo wires]

my monthly bill is just around $100.00
30 gallon electric WH on timer set to come on for 4 hours daily. 2 hours morining, 2 hours evening.
Energy star fridge. And other appliances are propane.
Use cfl's and led lights. Always turn off lights not in use.

[rocketman]

Thanks, that's really not so bad. I feel better. Have to work on getting a timer.

[james weatherford]

Two adults, with frequent visitors.

Dishwasher, big clothes washer, big refrigerator, magna wave electric cooktop, electric convection oven, solar water heater with electric backup, grid-tied solar photovoltaic. All electric appliances are rated 'Energy Star'. No propane gas use of any kind.

Bill is mostly minimum $20.50 /month, and can go up to $40 or $50 when there are visitors.

[nanawaledeej]

James that sure says something for going solar.

"Today I am better than yesterday, but not as good as I will be tomorrow."

[kalakoa]

How large is the PV array, and how much does it harvest?

[birdmove]

Two people in a 1056 square foot house on full electric. The last bill was about $175. But, my daughter comes over and washes and dries their laundry all the time. Otherwise, we never use the dryer. Helco's meter reader has made 2 mistakes over the last 3 bills. The last time he added 1000 kilowatt hours to our meter by mistake. Bill would have been about %615!! Got that straightened out.

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[terracore]

quote:

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Originally posted by dayna

We have solar hot water. No ac or dishwasher. Ours is between $100 and $130 a month for a family of three.

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com

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Need to add that $100-$130 is based on a "Helco month" which is no 30 day cycle. Our bill is about $110 per calendar month. Also need to add that 80% of our clothes are line-dried with the remaining using an electric dryer. We do have a small outdoor kitchen that uses propane that we use frequently.

Also, our last electric bill in Alaska was over $400 (and our highest was nearly $1200, and we did NOT have electric heat), so we don't know what everybody is complaining about.