When Bills Are Good News
As I've mentioned in previous posts, one of things we wanted to see in our "Day Without Electricity" experiment was how much we'd save by doing without electricity for one day each week.
The way that our rates are structured, the more electricity you use, the more you pay for each kilowatt hour (Kwh). Here's how it breaks down for us, according to our latest bill:
When you start cutting down, you start saving at the top of the range. It's possible to make a small cut and save a fairly large percentage, which turns out to be exactly what we've done. It turns out that a 13.3% cut in our overall usage added up to a 42% savings on our latest bill.
As I've said before, environmental advantages aside (and there are certainly those), we're saving over $100 per month just by shutting things down one day a week. That's more than $1200 a year. What can we do with $1200 a year? I can certainly think of a few things!
The way that our rates are structured, the more electricity you use, the more you pay for each kilowatt hour (Kwh). Here's how it breaks down for us, according to our latest bill:
- Baseline Quantity = $0.11531 per Kwh
- 101-130% of Baseline = $0.13109 per Kwh
- 131-200% of Baseline = $0.25974 per Kwh
- 201-300% of Baseline = $0.37866 per Kwh
When you start cutting down, you start saving at the top of the range. It's possible to make a small cut and save a fairly large percentage, which turns out to be exactly what we've done. It turns out that a 13.3% cut in our overall usage added up to a 42% savings on our latest bill.
As I've said before, environmental advantages aside (and there are certainly those), we're saving over $100 per month just by shutting things down one day a week. That's more than $1200 a year. What can we do with $1200 a year? I can certainly think of a few things!
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