What's your electric bill like from pellets?

It isn't just the electric company that can shut it off its those bleeping sharks with lasers on their heads.

 

This may be stupid question but since I have never used a kilowatt meter I will ask it. Can you enter in the different rates for delivery and production of the electricity so it can calculate the cost for you? Or is this just something you have to do yourself

 

It depends upon the model you get as to what it can do.

 

I replaced all my CFL's with LED's, and saw absolutely 0 change in my power bill.. lol I didn't do it for the savings though, I did it to get the mercury out of my house. After breaking a bulb inside by dropping it while changing it out, i thought, dang, this is a bad idea, went to the wholesale club and spent a couple hundred on various led flood lights (my kitchen has recessed cans) and replacement bulbs for the lamps and bedroom built-in ceiling fixtures. only a few things like my chandelier and other odd-ball sized bulbs are still incandescent.

Dimming, even on the dimmable claimed led's, isn't that great. I spent the extra money on the better Sylvania bulbs with the dimmable logo and everything, but they still flicker a lot on lower ranges. Sometimes there's a sweet spot. But if you're looking for 100% dim range, don't go led on it.

I did the switches on the tv things for a while, but again, saw no noticeable change in my power bill. and having to wait for the tv guide to re-download every time wasn't worth the 25 cents it may have saved me.

As for the dryer, I've been placing damp clothes out in front of the stove on kitchen chairs/etc to dry after a short cycle in the dryer. takes about an hour for most things.

Now, if i could just get the other half to not leave the fridge open for longer than is necessary.... close the front door all the way when she runs out to her car/etc, and stop leaving a trail of lights on in her wake, I might actually see some net gains

 

Good luck with that.

 

He doesn't stand a snowball's chance in his pellet eater of that ever occurring.

 

Not since she learned the benefits of a good solid cast iron skillet .

 

I just got my bill - $200. I hate to admit it, but I was kinda pleased about that. I'm a bit of a gizmo-addict. I'm sure that doesn't help. However, I also have two teenage kids who never turn off lights. If I'm lucky, they will turn off a TV. Sounds like I need to work on buying LED's and find where that old Kill-a-Watt ended up.

I don't think we have very many of the old bulbs left. We're probably 98% CFL.

 

My electric rates are about .153 per kWh. I didn't get a handle on my bill until I went to LEDs. And a lot of counter top appliances. Phantom power didn't add up to a buck. I used the kill-o-watt tester on about everything hat wasn't 220.
The switch over to LED was dramatic as was switching from an upright freezer to a small chest freezer. Plus I keep the freezer in an unheated glassed in porch. My wife has moved her spot to the family room where we have one light on, the LED tv, and the pellet stove. We both spend a considerable amount on our tablets.

 

I just realized that the $200 includes natural gas, although we don't use much. For some reason, I got the email about the bill but not the actual bill. So I don't know the exact break down.

I heard that Costco is selling LED's with a decent discount provided by the local power company.

SaveMoney - when you say that phantom power didn't add up to much, what are you talking about specifically? Things like phone or tablet chargers? I wonder how much power UPS's use.

Thinking through, we have an upright freezer and a under counter fridge in the basement. There's definitely some stuff around that I need to unplug. Gonna need to find the Kill-a-Watt this weekend too.

 

Phantom power: things that are not in use, but really not tuned off. Most common amoung these are TV receivers, computers in sleep mode, Chargers, etc.

 

Anything powered by a wall wart that is plugged in, microwaves, garage door openers, dvrs, vhs, dishwashers, irons, electric ranges, electric clothes dryers, electric clothes washers, computer controlled sewing machines, anything with an led, lcd clock, or internal clock, and on and on goes the list. In short if it can be plugged in it is a candidate for checking with a meter. Remember even 1 watt is 8.76 KWh per year.

 

I have a kilowatt meter on my stove and for the last 18 days I have averaged .14 killowatts per hour. Comes out to about $20 a month.

 

Is your stove on a stat or constant burn. On constant, pellet stoves only sip power, but if they keep using the igniter, the energy use is much steeper. $20 is the high end, and 14 is on the low end from most of the quotes I have been following.
I'm not sure how, but we have kept our energy use down this winter. I didn't do any holiday lighting except for our 2.5 foot tree. Very little holiday cooking. We stay in one room all evening. No use of overhead lighting. All other lighting is LED or CFU. Our TV is LED.

 

Depends on the temps. Part of that was on off and part of it was running straight out. The igniter is 300 watts and runs for 15-20 minutes. So as long as the stove is off for 30 minutes or so the electricity usage should break even and then be less the longer the stove is off. My electric rate is somewhere around .20 a kilowatt. I always leave the room blower on high as well.