What is your average electricity bill?

Less than five dollars, even when I run my a/c all summer.

The question is meaningless without additional information, such as:

- What is your primary source of heat?
- What is your primary source of AC (if any)?
- Is your water heated by electricity or gas?
- How many refrigerators and freezers do you have?
- Efficient light bulbs?
- Lights on all night long?
- Computers on all day and night? Servers? TVs?
- etc.

All of the above can be boiled down to:

- How many kwh/month do you use

About 1000 kwh each month, winter and summer. Usually about $180 a month. In Texas, with electric heat (seldom needed usually) and ac (totally necessary)...all electric house except for stove.

284.

$75 during the winter, $220 during the summer- Florida.

About 280 in the summer with total electric and a mother who is always turning the thermostat up and down.

Charlotte, NC 1 bedroom apartment 25-30 dollars a month the last few months. I gave up on air conditioning. I feel just fine:)

We have been living in RV parks for the past 4 years, as soon as the youngest moved out. Our highest bill was in winter, running a electric oil heater, 75.00
Living in an RV and moving when we like is very cool. Have a 06 travel trailer, and a nice pickup. Works well. Don't like the neighbors, move...

Now we are in TX and our electric is paid. All bills paid. Cable, electric, water/sewer, we buy only our propane to cook with. Have a hott rod in the water heater, so no gas there, just the cook stove. We pay 350 a month here in Mineral Wells.

My husband is a Brit living in England. He retired today from BT after 30 years. Hopefully he will be over here in the US in several weeks. His dream is to live in an RV. I'm a little leery. Any regrets with your lifestyle?

£40 a month here roughly. All year round. Gas heating no AC.

The gas bill during winter is BIG.

$125 in winter up to $450 in the summer. Gulf Coast Texas. 105 degrees in June.

About $450 in the summer when my air conditioning and swimming pool are going but it's a pretty big house.

$425.00 if I averaged 12 months. Winter can be over $500

needless to say I didn't hang Christmas lights this year.

SoCal Edison, Los Angeles

I don't have central air or heat. I have radiant floor heating which is mostly gas except for the pump.

I am forever going around turning out lights, I have low energy light bulbs, I've turned off outside lighting and unplug what isn't being used

It's just sad

Dang:(

Kansas here - we have an all electric house but our unit is a heat pump - this works great in the summer but not so great in the cold winter. Average spring/fall bill is around 75-100 dollars - average summer bill is around 120-175 - average winter bill is around 140-200 dollars. I am in artificial menopause due to estrogen positive breast cancer so I get severe hot flashes and like it cold in the house - we keep the thermostat during all seasons at 68 degrees except on days like today where I run the fans and keep it at 72.

Five room all electric in NW South Carolina w/ 2 people. Averages $150/ month but it keeps going up a little every year.

4 bedroom semi detached with basement, and we pay about 80 per month, equalized throughout the year. our heat is natural gas. we have central air and a dryer.

400 per month for pool and AC during summer months :(

$800-$900 for 3 months. I get billed quarterly.

I don't know. Somethings up with our electric bill. No water heater, no washer or dryer, keep the AC set on 78 degrees, with only 300 square feet.

One lamp and only the tv OR pc on, small refrigerator, and a floor fan that we only use to sleep ... that's it.

I'd like to compare kwh usage and 'service fees' and cost.

Last month:

May 2 to June 1

Total: $97.44

Fee?: $11.50

Taxes: $6.36

Usage: 549 kwh

We pay anywhere from $300 to $600 a month, and our government want to put a carbon tax on us that will make go up at least another 20%. Groceries are about 40% hire than other countries.

Melbourne here. Mine aren't that high yet (roughly $330 for two people) but if mine got up that high, I am afraid I would go back to rubbing two sticks together.

What kind of kwh usage are you talking about there in Australia?

freeee

300-500 bucks. Gulf Coast

in Sydney Oz, as a couple in a compact unit, from memory around 1200kWhm, last bill was around AU$400 a quarter - electricity rates have doubled in the last 4 years to I think around 22c/kWh plus service fees.

reading this in Taiwan where the average bill appears to be about a quarter of that, but that probably reflects average salaries or purchasing power parity.

Taiwan rates mentioned here [link to www.forumosa.com] as 12c/kWh or around half-Australian rate so most English teacher types probably living in small units with gas hot water, little cooking, dunno about heating, and air-con as a main question ...

Averages about $475. per month. Winters a bitch because I have oil heat and I am constantly buying oil on top of electric.

Apartment just outside of NYC - $75 in the winter. May/June through October, $250-$275 per month. If it's above 85 degrees or so, I leave one AC on all day for my cats while I'm at work.

last month was 324, in NC

same month before smart meter last year was 220

by Boise - $30 a month on budget plan