The power bill came today.

[RandyL]

Got a bill from the power company. I just paid it off + some extra cash last week. 2445 Kilowatts usage for 65 days, $305 with the taxes and fees included.

Damn.

1,400 watts of HPS going 12/12, 400 watts of MH veg light on 24/0, plus my computers, tv, Xbox, oven, etc. The lights are about 2/3 of my total usage, maybe a bit more.

Only another 5-6 weeks of flowering until this stuff is ready to harvest, dry, and pay ALL the bills!

 

[1stworks]

Got a bill from the power company. I just paid it off + some extra cash last week. 2445 Kilowatts usage for 65 days, $305 with the taxes and fees included.

Damn.

1,400 watts of HPS going 12/12, 400 watts of MH veg light on 24/0, plus my computers, tv, Xbox, oven, etc. The lights are about 2/3 of my total usage, maybe a bit more.

Only another 5-6 weeks of flowering until this stuff is ready to harvest, dry, and pay ALL the bills!

two 1000 +pumps and a house w/ all the shit going= 265.00 last month

4 plants maybe 1.5 lbs = priceless

 

[CaliKat.18]

thats shitty my old set up was a $600 bill

 

[bizz]

Im in sf bay area. Dec bill was $680 jan $750!!! I was only running 1000w HPS 12/12 + 64w flouro + 8" fan + pump... wtf!?!

It added about $250+ to my bill, which was for like 3600+kwh for dec

I think my old frig is killing me... cause $300-400 without a grow seems high!

 

[Hogdady]

Got a bill from the power company. I just paid it off + some extra cash last week. 2445 Kilowatts usage for 65 days, $305 with the taxes and fees included.

Damn.

1,400 watts of HPS going 12/12, 400 watts of MH veg light on 24/0, plus my computers, tv, Xbox, oven, etc. The lights are about 2/3 of my total usage, maybe a bit more.

Only another 5-6 weeks of flowering until this stuff is ready to harvest, dry, and pay ALL the bills!

if you used that many kwh's where I live it would have cost a little over $800. consider yourself lucky.....unless you wanna trade?

 

[Hogdady]

Im in sf bay area. Dec bill was $680 jan $750!!! I was only running 1000w HPS 12/12 + 64w flouro + 8" fan + pump... wtf!?!

It added about $250+ to my bill, which was for like 3600+kwh for dec

I think my old frig is killing me... cause $300-400 without a grow seems high!

that kwh figure cant be right......3600 kwh from PG&E should cost you somewhere around $1150......

 

[bizz]

that kwh figure cant be right......3600 kwh from PG&E should cost you somewhere around $1150......

You're right, dont know where I got 3600 from... that's about 4 times my baseline. Also run light 12 hours a day 1000 watts per hour for 30 days = 360,000 or 360kwh, so i must have had 36 on the brain

Looks like I used 1891kwh in dec and 1955kwh in jan(plus a bit more natural gas)

 

[Hogdady]

You're right, dont know where I got 3600 from... that's about 4 times my baseline. Also run light 12 hours a day 1000 watts per hour for 30 days = 360,000 or 360kwh, so i must have had 36 on the brain

Looks like I used 1891kwh in dec and 1955kwh in jan(plus a bit more natural gas)

i was about to get excited if somehow you were paying so much less per kwh than me from the same utility provider......

 

[bizz]

top tier rate of $0.47 per kwh is pure highway robbery!

build some nuclear power plants, throw up some solar panels in central valley...

original poster is from LA, why they pay half????

 

[Hogdady]

original poster is from LA, why they pay half????

good question!

 

[OilFieldTrash]

In December I used 4626 KWH and my bill was $368.57.

 

[Tyrone Hamilton]

California has unbelievably high energy prices... thanks Enron and deregulation!

 

[OilFieldTrash]

I thought that CA had high prices because of the problems in using CA's own natural resources and the problems with building new power stations. I think that I have read where a lot of the power coming into the state is from out of state resources.

 

[Tyrone Hamilton]

I thought that CA had high prices because of the problems in using CA's own natural resources and the problems with building new power stations. I think that I have read where a lot of the power coming into the state is from out of state resources.

You are right, that adds as well. Lots of ideology costs lots of bucks.

 

[OilFieldTrash]

We have an addition to our power plant a few miles up the road from me, they spent a billion bucks. This new addition just came online this week. From what I have read that thing will burn just about anything you can throw at it. This is a 600 megawatt addition and is probably sitting on top of one of the largest natural gas fields in the country.

 

[BreakPoint]

I've heard Texas pumps a goo gob of power to Cali.

 

[bizz]

I've heard Texas pumps a goo gob of power to Cali.

natural gas...

 

[SanibelGreen]

love my LED's 89.77 south florida