Oil heater=crazy power bill!

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Originally Posted by MrLang

Thank god. It's my first month in my new place and I was seriously freaking out reading this thread as I haven't received my first electric bill.

I'm using one of those dinky electric fan powered space heaters. It runs probably 25% of the time. I think the watts were only 400 or so, so I'm hoping it's not too bad.

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I'm doubting you'll see a big difference. My oil heater is 1,500 watts at full power.

My opinion is that the spike is not just from the heater. If you look at it mathematically, a 1500 watt heater, at full blast at all times would run you 3.6kWh per day. At 10 cents per kWh, which would be high for my area, means it would cost you $3.6 per day or $108 per month max. And that would be absolute max with the heater constantly blazing. I would have to stick the heater outside in the dead of winter to even come close to this. As others have ball parked, my 12x12 room that would stay at 65 otherwise, costs about $30 to hear to 82

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MAX? I pay just under 14¢ kWh so 1500w heater at max is 144.03 monthly. I have a friend who pays 41¢ after a gov subsitidy (84¢ kWh with out) suggesting what someone else would pay is a poor idea unless you know what rates they pay and how much power they are talking about. If my friend ran a 1500w heater for a month it would be $864.18/month this is the highest I know of.

Isn't NY city close to 20¢ kWh?

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Originally Posted by kitedemon

I have a friend who pays 41¢ after a gov subsitidy (84¢ kWh with out)

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Where is that.... Holy crap

How do you figure out kilowatts per hour?

FYI - I have PSE&G in NJ. They break it up between electricity and distribution. Total is 17.34 cents.

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Originally Posted by kitedemon

MAX? I pay just under 14¢ kWh so 1500w heater at max is 144.03 monthly. I have a friend who pays 41¢ after a gov subsitidy (84¢ kWh with out) suggesting what someone else would pay is a poor idea unless you know what rates they pay and how much power they are talking about. If my friend ran a 1500w heater for a month it would be $864.18/month this is the highest I know of.

Isn't NY city close to 20¢ kWh?

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I did say at $0.10 it would cost you $108 MAX, never mentioned any other electric rates. So yes if you did pay more than that is will be more than that. My fault for not giving every instance known to man, but let me rephrase it for you, it will cost you 108 kWh * your kWh rate at MAX and assuming a 30 day month.

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Originally Posted by 3skulls

How do you figure out kilowatts per hour? .

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Without hijacking the thread too much, a kWh is how many kilowatts (1000 watts) an item uses in 1 hour. So for instance, a 60 watt light bulb left on for 1 hour will be 0.06kWh. In the case of the heater, most are 1500w max output or 1.5kWh if full blast for 1 hour.

Thanks !

WhaTi (Martins Lake) NWT Canada. All the territories are higher than 25¢ I believe some way higher there is a reduction in rates after the first 1000 kWh.

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I did miss read that sorry.