Gee, there's a dent in the electric bill...

[SnapCracklePop]

I am on the Equal Payment Plan with Pennsylvania Electric Company. My bill had been $165 a month, year-round. I got my new bill today, and I am told my bill will drop to $115 a month, starting in April.

Goodness gracious. Do we think the wood stove had anything to do with that?

I can't stop smiling.

Nancy

 

[Jimbob]

Stove is saving you $600 a year, minus any increases in house insurance plus the costs associated with getting the wood.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

That is great Nancy! Sometimes I am amazed at the size of folks electric bills. We do not pay that much for sure.

 

[weatherguy]

You might be able to get it even lower if this was your first year burning.

 

[Todd]

That's a good chunck of change. Do you have electric heat?

 

[SnapCracklePop]

Yes, this was my first year burning, and I'm done already for the most part. I had a cord of good locust and about two cords of my own oak that wasn't as seasoned as I'd like. Next year my wood will be much improved.

I'm putting in an Englander 30 on the main floor, so I don't expect to have the electric heat on at all next year. My house is electric baseboard, and before I went on the equal payment plan my bill would vary from $30 or $40 in the summer to way over $300 in the winter.

Pennsylvania Electric was under a rate cap for years. It just was lifted at the end of December. From the information they provided, I expected my bill to go up to $180, so the new rate is even better than it looks.

Nancy

 

[HotCoals]

Heck I have a heat pump and a E-furnace..niether have been on this season.
Still I have 160 dollar E bills...15 cents/kwh...with taxes and everything.

 

[SnapCracklePop]

Ouch. My rate is between 7 and 8 cents a KwH.

 

[Dakotas Dad]

Our usage for the heating months this winter was almost exactly half of last year. 1st full winter of wood heat. Works out to about $600 saved.

 

[woodchip]

We just got or electric bill a couple of days ago, and my wife was very impressed. £32 (about $48) for 3 months.
Mind you, we have done all our cooking on the woodburner, the electric stove has become redundant.

Funny thing is the electric company here keeps asking us if we want gas too so we can get a dual fuel discount.
Seems they do not count free wood as a fuel. I sure do after that bill!

 

[BrotherBart]

$48 for three months! Half the forum are calling moving companies at the moment getting quotes for moving to Broadstone. :lol: I have done some work in Maidstone two or three hours away but have never had the pleasure of visiting Broadstone. Or of having a $48 electric bill in many, many years.

 

[lukem]

That is great Nancy! Sometimes I am amazed at the size of folks electric bills. We do not pay that much for sure.

I can relate to that. Awkward conversation when my BIL spent $500+ in Jan and I spent $60....and my house is bigger...and older...and warmer...

 

[woodchip]

$48 for three months!

Just for you, this is what the bill looked like.........
Three years ago our bills were about £75 for 3 months. Probably the best woodburner advert you will ever see!!

 

[nate379]

Sheez if I had bills like most of those I'd have a cornary! I had electric heat when I lived in Idaho and my most expensive bills were around $100.

 

[greythorn3]

Sheez if I had bills like most of those I'd have a cornary! I had electric heat when I lived in Idaho and my most expensive bills were around $100.

how did you like electric heat? was it a forced air electric heater?

 

[ckarotka]

My last E-bill was $147. Thats the highest it's ever been. I ran two space heaters for the girls this winter. Thats 1 more than i should, if I burn my second stove at night, every-night, which I didn't. Next winter, more fire, less electric!! The funny part is the girls think 64*F is cold!?!?lol

 

[woodchip]

64f is cold when it's electric, somehow, the same temperature with wood seems warmer.

And if it does seem cold, you can chuck a couple of splits on, it's almost easier than flicking a switch and watching your meter spin wildly whilst sucking hard earned money out of your bank account!!

 

[jeffoc]

My electric bill is $200 dollars a month year round! That's with propane heat. We've been working to get it down but it is a co-op and they keep raising rates.
The furnace died last month, so the 3500 we were going to spend on the insert went to a new furnace. Maybe a good deal will come around in the off season. Until then I keep chopping and splitting.