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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