What's your electric bill like from pellets?

I'd be surprised if your pellet stove cost $100/mo. to run.

 

Yep, Prob,costs him 20 a month.

 

Pete, I think my stove is about$14 a month. However, there is a cheap way to find out.
I have a kii-o-watt meter that I can use on any plug in appliance to get usage and cost. You only have to enter the cost of electricity per kilowatt and then plug it in line with the appliance. Let it run a day, week, or month and you get your results. Electricity is around .17 per kilowatt hr. here. $200 seems horrible. We switched our lights to LED and some cfu units. No electric hot water. But all the other appliances and multiple electronics are electric. Are you running any heating devices, like to the greenhouse? Those will eat you alive.
Look for this:
P3 INTERNATIONAL P3-P4460 Kill-O-Watt Ez Electric Usage

 

If you can't find one, let me know. You can borrow mine. I'm not usin it now. I tracked down my usage and cut it in half.
It was driving me nuts.
The stove uses most electricity when it is lighting up. I think upwards of 300 watts for 15 min. But when it is just running, it is more like a light bulb. Talk to Smokey the Bear. He burns pellets and has his bill half of what I pay. My last bill was just under $100.

 

My summer light bill with running two a/c units is about $90-130 depending on how much cooling is needed. My winter bill is about $70-80 with the stove and two fans running.

 

Our electric bill usually runs around 100 a month. If I would of used the heat pump last winter, that would of easily been 300 a month.

 

I had previously read comments generally indicating $15 - $20 per month as well as the same usage as a light bulb. Glad to see confirmation here.

 

I guess around $20/month here also. My last electric bill was $98, and that was just before I started using the furnace and when I wasn't running the dehumidifier downstairs as much.

 

Save your electric stove probably uses more then 300 watts running. Unless it is an kids Easy Bake oven that cooks with a light bulb.

Gary

 

Pallet Pete , what was your last bill prior to running the pellet stove?

 

I run about 150-175 in summer (central air) and then about 100-110 in winter. I assumed also about 10-15 with stove as I do not use it as much as many of you on a monthly basis.

 

My electric stove doesn't get a lot of use. We have and assortment of countertop appliances that get used first. I think our electric dryer is the largest power user in this household. My elevtrical provider has a graph of household use. I can look at it and note when there is a spike. Either the oven or the drying will usually have been on when ther was a spike showing.

 

Pete was that an actual meter reading on that bill or was it estimated?

Gary