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Thu, 05 Dec 2013

Energy Statistics for 2013

I’ve been getting what feels like “low” electric bills and I wanted to understand them a bit better so it means fun stats time!

Baseline gas load ~$25/mo
Baseline electric ~$45/mo
Minimum utility load ~$70/mo
Maximum utility load ~$195/mo (~3x base load?)
Average utility cost ~$130/mo (~2x base load?)

If you assume that the month with the minimum cost’s average temperature was 73 degrees (May @ $90), it looks like every degree below that costs $2/degree, but every degree above that costs $7/degree. Don’t know what conclusions to draw.

Dec 12 - Temp: 51 - Gas: $55.33 - Elec:  $68.82 - Total: $124.15
Jan 13 - Temp: 49 - Gas: $93.52 - Elec:  $69.52 - Total: $163.04
Feb 13 - Temp: 52 - Gas: $84.14 - Elec:  $56.17 - Total: $140.31
Mar 13 - Temp: 56 - Gas: $66.93 - Elec:  $48.75 - Total: $115.68
Mar 13 - Temp: 56 - Gas: $44.63 - Elec:  $62.55 - Total: $107.18
May 13 - Temp: 73 - Gas: $47.55 - Elec:  $42.85 - Total:  $90.40
Jun 13 - Temp: 83 - Gas: $31.95 - Elec: $102.24 - Total: $134.19
Jul 13 - Temp: 85 - Gas: $28.76 - Elec: $163.43 - Total: $192.19
Aug 13 - Temp: 87 - Gas: $27.54 - Elec: $153.40 - Total: $180.94
Sep 13 - Temp: 83 - Gas: $27.15 - Elec: $155.47 - Total: $182.62
Oct 13 - Temp: 69 - Gas: $27.98 - Elec: $112.53 - Total: $140.51
Nov 13 - Temp: 54 - Gas: $37.04 - Elec:  $57.88 - Total:  $94.92

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