What do you pay per month for hydro?
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July 10th, 2010
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For electric, it stays pretty steady at $100—$115/month throughout the year for me because I have baseboard heaters in the winter and window-unit air conditioners in the summer. I live in NJ and have three people total in my apartment.
What comes to mind when you say “hydro” is not electricity.
Ontario Hydro
In many Canadian provinces, including Ontario, hydroelectric power is so common that “hydro” has become synonymous with electric power regardless of the actual source of the electricity.
$25 to $30 US
I typically run the air conditioning only 4 or 5 nights/month in the summer
Medium-sized one bedroom apartment
Nobody home most weekdays
The fridge is the only electric appliance
One month I hit $42 by running the AC a lot
Hydro = electric would be a good one for this thread:
http://www.fluther.com/89903/local-dialect-are-there-any-words-or-phrases-unique-to-your/
I wonder if other places like BC/Washington state/Scandinavia use the term.
Ours ranges from a low of $47 a month to a high of $169 (in the peak of summer A/C season.
“What comes to mind when you say “hydro” is not electricity.”
I realize that. It’s a term that we use in our province. Sorry for the confusion.
We just moved here, but it looks like it’ll be 100/month. It’s a/c season, and we’re running it 24/7.
Averages out to about $100 month!
I have a super efficiant little house, mega insulation and my energy bill hovers between, on avaerage, $48 per month, with occasonal winter spikes in the mid $70’s.
This is due to the fact that I keep my hot tub cranked up night and day and even with this luxury my bill remains very modest.
What really nails me is the propane use in winter.
In the winter, we’ll go as low as $45 or so. In the summer we’ll get as high as $125—$130 if it is a hot one. We refuse to be uncomfortable in our own home, and are lucky enough to be able to afford to do so.
Regrettably, here in Alberta, most of our electric power comes from the burning of coal. Electricity costs are nearly twice as high as they are in Quebec or Ontario because of the wasteful and dirty method of its production. We are developing wind power extensively but nearly all that power is pre-sold to California.
My heating and hot water is gas. I do not have air conditioning or even laundry machines in the house (no place for them). Thus my electrical costs are fairly stable throughout the year, about $65.00 per month.
In the Seattle area, my bill ranges from $75–140/month. That is with no A/C, some fan usage, heavy computer usage (one laptop, and two towers, one of which is on 24/7), and electric heat.
Back in NH with only one computer, propane heat, some A/C usage, and electric hot water heater, ir ranged about the same except for that time we ran out of propane and couldn’t get the tanks refilled for three weeks; that month we paid $480!
The hydro stuff is too strong for me. I prefer the naturally grown stuff.
I spend a couple hundred a month (between the brownies and the green stuff).
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