And a lot it seems.
I have a gas dryer to help cut down on my electrical costs. And to cut down on my gas usage I would run my gas dryer for about 90-minutes on Air Fluff only then about 30-minutes on Regular with a full load.
I do this everyday fiive days a week times three loads per day, so we're looking at 270 minutes or 4.5 hours just on Air Fluff. Then you add another 1.5 hours for the actual heated drying and that adds up to 6-hours per day or 120-hours per month.
Just for kicks I decided just how much electricity to drive the motor of my gas dryer uses per hour. I was floored when my watt meter read an astounding 300-watts per hour or 36,000 watts per month. To put that into perspective that's 36Kw/month so at $0.39 per Kwhr (Kilowatt per hour) that equals to $14.04 per month.
Now my propane usage before air fluffing came out to $15.00 per month. With air fluffing it came out to $10.00 per month.
So if I just use the gas dryer on regular for 50-minutes per load I use $5.00 more in propane than with air fluffing per month.
At 50 hours per month times 300 watts per hour that equals to 15Kw or $5.85 in electrical usage vs $14.04.
The cost of increased gas usage vs the cost of electricity saved is a net savings of $8.19 per month when you combine both gas and electrical monthly costs.
Hmmm...that still doesn't explain my spike in electricity from $388.39 to $457.59 (for March 2008) especially since I've been doing this air fluffing for over half a year already and during this last billing cycle I actually unplugged my garage chest freezer the day before the meter reader took my Feb 9th reading.
Taking into account any rate increase, according to my billing statement my Kw/day increased from 34.1Kw/day to 38.5kKw/day or an increase of 4.4Kw per day.
At 300-watts per hour times 6-hours per day (current usage) that equates to only 1.8Kw per day. Now the usage didn't change from the previous month so that 1.8Kw/day is a non-issue, but even if it was, that doesn't account for the other 2.6Kw/day.
I'm thinking HELCO didn't read my meter correctly. I know for a fact that my electrical meter doesn't have an AMR attached so the reading had to be done manually with eyes. My elderly mother who's bedroom window is right next to the meter saw the HELCO meter reader just drive by our driveway (going in thru the main driveway and exiting via the side street driveway) without stopping. There was no way that meter reader could have gotten a reading like that. I know, I used to work for the Gas Company and part of my job was verifying defective meter index dials and handling high bill complaints when a meter reader refutes any misreads on their part.
I have a gas dryer to help cut down on my electrical costs. And to cut down on my gas usage I would run my gas dryer for about 90-minutes on Air Fluff only then about 30-minutes on Regular with a full load.
I do this everyday fiive days a week times three loads per day, so we're looking at 270 minutes or 4.5 hours just on Air Fluff. Then you add another 1.5 hours for the actual heated drying and that adds up to 6-hours per day or 120-hours per month.
Just for kicks I decided just how much electricity to drive the motor of my gas dryer uses per hour. I was floored when my watt meter read an astounding 300-watts per hour or 36,000 watts per month. To put that into perspective that's 36Kw/month so at $0.39 per Kwhr (Kilowatt per hour) that equals to $14.04 per month.
Now my propane usage before air fluffing came out to $15.00 per month. With air fluffing it came out to $10.00 per month.
So if I just use the gas dryer on regular for 50-minutes per load I use $5.00 more in propane than with air fluffing per month.
At 50 hours per month times 300 watts per hour that equals to 15Kw or $5.85 in electrical usage vs $14.04.
The cost of increased gas usage vs the cost of electricity saved is a net savings of $8.19 per month when you combine both gas and electrical monthly costs.
Hmmm...that still doesn't explain my spike in electricity from $388.39 to $457.59 (for March 2008) especially since I've been doing this air fluffing for over half a year already and during this last billing cycle I actually unplugged my garage chest freezer the day before the meter reader took my Feb 9th reading.
Taking into account any rate increase, according to my billing statement my Kw/day increased from 34.1Kw/day to 38.5kKw/day or an increase of 4.4Kw per day.
At 300-watts per hour times 6-hours per day (current usage) that equates to only 1.8Kw per day. Now the usage didn't change from the previous month so that 1.8Kw/day is a non-issue, but even if it was, that doesn't account for the other 2.6Kw/day.
I'm thinking HELCO didn't read my meter correctly. I know for a fact that my electrical meter doesn't have an AMR attached so the reading had to be done manually with eyes. My elderly mother who's bedroom window is right next to the meter saw the HELCO meter reader just drive by our driveway (going in thru the main driveway and exiting via the side street driveway) without stopping. There was no way that meter reader could have gotten a reading like that. I know, I used to work for the Gas Company and part of my job was verifying defective meter index dials and handling high bill complaints when a meter reader refutes any misreads on their part.
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