Is It Normal For One Baseboard Heater To Raise My Electric Bill By $100?
This is my first year paying my own electric bill and I’d like some input as to whether this is normal:
I live in a basement converted to an efficiency apartment. It consists of a kitchen, a bathroom and a large living/sleeping room and it’s metered separately from the rest of the house.
Before I turned my heat on, I used about 350 KWH of electrcity per month, which came out to about $35 a month.
In the first month of cold weather, I used 1,269 KWH, which came out to $130.89, or about $100 more!
This shocked me because the only heat I have really used has been one electric baseboard heater, which I keep at 3 or below on a dial with settings from 0 to 10.
I also have an electric fireplace which produces heat, which I turned on on the low setting for just a few hours at a time several times a week.
Is $100 a normal increase to cover just these two appliances, or should I be concerned that perhaps the water heater (used by two other apartments too) might be hooked to my meter?
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November 7, 2009 @ 12:18 am
Sounds possible, baseboard heaters come in various sizes, but supposing it is 2000W , if it ran for 15 hours a day * 30 days that would account for the increased usage (2kW * 15hours * 30 = 900kWh)
The only question is how many hours a day does it stay on when set on “3″?
November 7, 2009 @ 4:47 am
Absolutely… electricity costs somewhere around .15 cents per KWH and you used 1,269 KWH, so you got a bargain.