Interested to see what other Ozb community members pay for power.
I pay $300 a quarter for one person, NT. No water bill as I use bore.
How Much Is Your Power Bill?
apptrack on 15/08/2018 - 16:30
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Mine is over 9000
Negged because people don't get it hhaha
What are solar panals?
Sorry, I meant to type soler penals. My bad.
You mean penels?
wolololol!
Solar petals! There was a guy who has that idea, he shown a working prototype at TED talk in 2011. Then his company vanish …
About $200 one person per qtr in Melbourne
Around $160 a month in the Winter,with pensioner discount. One person.
2 people, ~200ish with concession, without prob ~250/quarter
just paid the latest bill $480 for 4 adults and 2 toddlers. we have solar panels and pension discount (SYD)
Our power bill for the 3 months ending 3 June, before any discounts was $833.00. This was for a family of 4 in a large house.
Gas for 2 months to July, and again before any discounts was $803.$803 for two months?!
That's correct. As a said, it is a large house (single level) with 15 heating duct outlets.
Windows open and heater cranked to 35 degrees?
Mine is close to yours, the gas not so much since I don't have a gas stove but I do live in a old house with ducted heating which is poorly insulated.
I hate it because my electricity bills are huge and if I moved up the road I would be in a different zone and pay less.
Same. Gas prices are ridiculous in Victoria!!
Too damn high!
Surely there are too many variables for any of this information to be comparable.
Maybe OP is seeking random values to seed a number generator?
Damn you got me
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Yeah, my power bill is ZERO and has been for thirty years. Off grid solar! Of course I should factor in cost of solar panels and batteries so it would average out about $200 per year. We do use LP gas for cooking and some hot water, about $300 per year and heat with firewood grown on our own 4.5 acre property. Presently we have 4 adults and 2 young children on the property in 2 dwellings using this energy.
out of curiosity, how much energy are you capable of generating a day on average over summer/winter? id love to go off grid but damn we use a lot of power….
my mum and dad live off gird there whole life. dad has 10kw system and two battery power pack. they big power used in older age. I own a 6kw system with battery power i am on the grid but i cut it off next used but put little bit of power back into grid
200 last 3 months - before staff discounts (25%)
4 people in house usually around 90 a month in winter 70 other times of the year.
with momentum in vicAverage usage cost per day $ 1.930
Average usage per day 10.687 kWh
How do you get electricity that cheap? In melb vic its about 30 cents per kilo watt hour plus a dollar a day for transmission.
You are being looted.
I changed to Tango Energy after being looted by AGL.I am in Melb as well.
https://www.tangoenergy.com/sites/default/files/2018-07/JE%2…
Excluding GST
17.53 cents per kWh
Daily supply charge 84.00 cents per day
$400 for two bedroom in act with 2 adults and 2 toddlers. ducted gas for heating only
4 person house -$110 quarter
Solar panels for hot water and usage
60% discount on bill,with $70 quarterly gas bills
Holy Zeus and his glorious electric thunderbolts! I hope you don't mind me asking, how does one obtain a 60% discount on the power bill? Thank
Momentum energy 10% off
then pre-pay with Amex offer spend $50 get $25 back (50%) x (20 cards)After that I’m off to red energy Amex offers (~43%off)
you have 20 AMEX cards?
with that you probably better off just ditching gas altogether, using just gas for cooking with nearly $1/day daily charge is total waste. Might spend a bit more in winter on electricity but even out with summer saving
I have no idea how the government thinks the average electricity bill will reduce by $550 per year.
That would be a huge percentage of many bills.
Be around 40% for us.
Average electricity bill for a house is like $2,500 a year. The $550 number is mostly made up, but prices should drop a little bit next year whether or not that policy happens.
$550 is the same number the libs quoted when they killed the carbon tax and prices stayed more or less the same.
2 person household - ~$300/qtr, gas heating, cooking and hot water.
2 person/bedroom house we use about $100 a fortnight so roughly $600 a quarter. This is with no gas and an electric hot water system
$320 quarter- 4 people. electric hot water system. no gas, no solar.
damn, I thought mine was low but now it seems high …
1 person, $200-300 a quarter depending on whether it's middle of summer (a lot of aircon) or not. Excluding hot water/gas, which is another ~150-170 a quarter. The bills show me as below the normal amount for a 1 person 'household', and yet … many people here are doing better.
me used to be around $300 a quarter but with the dishwasher and extra smart things in the home bill come close to around $400
Have solar panels. don't pay a cent for power.
Im guessing your on a high feed in tarrif.
Origin is currently offering 17 cents feed in tariff in the AusGrid (Metro NSW) distribution zone, which is quite good.
Assuming $1/W for an installed solar system which is quite reasonable then you can pay off your system in 4 years without even using the electricity.
My last bill was $971,I live in a 2 storey house and it’s me hubby and my 5 kids! Most I’ve ever gotten with this company! I think I get a 21% discount(I’ll only get the discount if I pay on time). I pay fornightly and my final payment was last Friday, expecting a new bill this week! I have been with origin and my current provider 1st energy, I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone..
Origin just offered me 30% discount on usage + supply, then AGL (current provider) countered with 25% (from existing 10% 'on time discount') off usage only.
Origin is cheaper overall for me right now.Seems like it's worth checking them out every so often, AGL had better plans than the one I was on BEFORE the competitive-offering.
Ring/ Use chat for them all. Everyone of them offered something far better than public offering. In the end they were all within $10 of each other, after factoring in each with their own 33%, 10% etc etc
I haven't shopped around, these offers were the results of the two companies calling me. It seems speaking (phone/chat) really does help get better rates etc and I should try it more often :P
But yep, they're all fairly close to each other once I calculate it all out based on past usage.
I should do this too. I have never been on a contract, does going to a contract mean I need to go to time of day/smart metering?
Currently with Energy Australia and AGL, family of four, Sydney, has for hot water, central heating and stove.
Electricity used to be around $450 pq, and gas around $150 pq summer, $450 pq winter. This will change as we recently replaced our aged ducted gas heating with ducted electric air con and gas heating.
Wow how did you get 30% I got 21% off usage and 21% off supply countering 28% Alinta offer, was on Red best they would do is 15%
how is everyone here managing to get such low power bills? Mine are $800+ a quater, 3 people in a 4br house. Was about the same when it was 2 ppl in 1br flat as well.
Dont you guys use heating/cooling? We use the heater in our kids room overnight, generic oil heater, 2000w. So doing just that, 12hrs/night every night for the quater is $475! Not to mention ducted aircon (5000w) and other miscellaneous things (dishwasher, washer, dryer, tv, computer) gets us to $800-$900/q.
Sydney, AGL with 22% dicount (1kwh ends up being 22c).
Put the heater on for half an hour before bed to warm up the room, blankets, turn the heater off when you sleep.
You are all electric and using quite a lot.
I do have heating in Victoria but set it's low overnight.
A bedroom should be from about 15 to 18 degrees C. Use a thicker blanket if that's still too cold. Use an electric blanket to preheat the bed. They use much less electricity.
A living room should be from 18 to 21 degrees C.
I use an oil filled radiator but as it's set low it cycles on/off and uses about 400W per hour. I heat the bedroom from May through to October.
I also would suggest thinking about using the ducted air conditioner overnight set low instead of the oil filled radiator. It'll use less electricity despite it being 5000W it will cycle on/off and use less.
Use the dryer sparingly. Try and dry clothes on clothes rails either inside or outside as much as possible. Clothes will dry in cold weather they just need to be out of rain.
I believe recommended bedroom temp for children is 20C+. Our daughter kicks off her blanket constantly, so we need to rely on pyjamas + hot room to keep her warm at night. We set the heater to 2 or sometimes 3 (3 is max) for the night, and it cycles on/off when it reaches a certain temp, but its mostly on from what i've seen.
I guess the answer really is that we've got poor insulation. Need to calculate return on investment there but i wouldnt think it would pay for itself very quickly.
That's too warm. It's fine for summer but it's not for winter.
I would feel too dry in winter if the bedroom was kept at above 20 degrees. Higher temperature's do lower humidity too much.
Not much I can write to convince you otherwise so continue as you are.
Hot water cylinder + fridge use may use a 1/3rd or even close to half of your power bill - hot water cylinder may be set at a temp that's too high and needlessly using power to maintain that temperature (simple test - is water from the hot tap too hot to touch?). A large and/or older fridge will also consume a lot of power.
Your heating and cooling habits could be more efficient; as the other poster said, only preheat the room and don't run the heater overnight, or consider an electric blanket (again preheat only) - because jumping into a cold bed consumes a lot of your own energy to heat it up and you'll find you won't need a heater.
A/C is where most people go wrong and crank it at full blast - pre cool the room and set it around 24/25deg so it maintains a comfortable temperature.
We have 4 people in a 3bdrm paying $450/qtr in Sydney (EnergyAus/Origin = 23c/kw); each room has their own AC and heater and we run the dishwaher + dryer every other day but we are smart with how we run them
Upgrading to a newer air conditioning system / investing in better insulation in your house will do wonders for you.
A 160 sqr metre house will spend $2,000 a year on heating / cooling if its 2 star rated.
A 6 star house will only spend $500.
A 10 star house $80.
generic oil heater, 2000w.
Thats your answer
I'd say you're doing quite well to keep it to 800 for 3 people in a 4br house
Though I seem not to be able to count since "We" and "kids" would denote at least 4 people
For NSW in general avoid AGL like the plague, rarely are they good, I heard they're getting better… but overall bad.
I just renew with Origin whenever they have a better online deal, since most companies have no exit fee
You need to wean yourself of the thinking that you need the room/house to be warm, it doesn't you're just use to it
In winter I just have a doona, commando underneath, on those rare really cold days I just chuck a blanket on top
My bill is always five times one fifth of the sum of all charges.
unlucky, mine is just over 4times the one fifth the sum of all charge with the pay on time discount
Ours varies from $100/month in winter to $200/month in summer. We have evap aircon, a pool and 2.4kw solar. 2 adults in 4 bed house.
You drink bore water? Do you filter/treat it first? Is this common in NT?
In WA you have to pay for a water connection if it goes past your property even if you don't have it connected.
Yea our whole area does, we filter it purely to get rid of sediment/iron content.
Very common, rural area doesn't have the option for mains water. Whole of NT doesn't have gas.
Top quality water, comes from an aquifer.
Approx $300/quarter for 2 people in a decent sized house.
My currently unemployed friend who spends pretty much all his time on his computer in a 2 person 2 storey town house just got a bill for $900
Does he keep lights on in the whole place? A/C or heat the whole place? How does he afford his bills?
2 ppl, 2bed unit, both working, $60-65 a month.
WTF thats averaging around 4-5kw per day…
Is that more or less?
More and more every year
~$300 / month. No Gas available so one third is off peak hot water. 4 People in 4br house. Wood Heating only. (pool filter 5 hrs/day).
3 years ago it was ~$200/month despite the reduction in consumption by replacing all the lights with low wattage ones.
Three adults in a 4 x 2 = $136 per month.
Kleenheat gas = about $50-ish? I still don't quite know how they decide what to DD on their "smart plan"…
$390 for the last quarter with largish house. 4 ppl. 2kw solar panels. Melbourne.
Ducted gas heating. AC head units for cooling. So summer months if hot the power bills go up.
$250 a quarter for 3 adults. Having gas boosted solar hot water really made a difference to the bills. Additionally, we don't turn the heater on unless its <16c, and try and use any high draw appliances on offpeak.
Still too high for my liking
It was about 250 a quarter just for me, I have an old house that im doing up as i can and have electric everything except gas heating which sucks. The girlfriend is moving in soon so I am getting a new gas oven and hotplate and once the water system packs it in i will replace that too.
I suspect though once she moves in and works from home we'll be up to 300 to 350.Why go half gas half electric? Cheaper?
Hadnt looked into it much yet but will consider that thanks apptrack i appreciate that. The one shes wanting is both gas stove oven and hot plate havent got final prices on anything yet as im still working on other areas of the house which are more important right now. I think its one of those stand alone ones. The kitchen is gonna be one hellofa big job me thinks but its liveable for now.
Fair enough, may be cheaper doing all electric as then you don't have a daily surcharge for gas simply for a gas hotplate
they reckon gas cooktop and electric oven is best
- the electric oven has better heat stability and temperature is more accurate
- the gas cook top is better as it gives instant changes to what you are cooking rather than electric which takes time to cool down etc.@Austaurean: I've heard induction cooktops are quite accurate and instantly cool, never tried them though.
Definitely will be looking at the most cost effective option. Im not doing a reno on house rules with an umlimted budgets and donated products for a free plug.
Thanks Austaurean yes I have heard this too. But the woman wants a standalone. Not sure if theyre offering an electric oven with a gas hotpate.
My 'cooker' has both Gas & Electric oven! Great if you want it to heat up fast or want a 'wet' heat, just fire up the gas, if you want 'dry' heat (for pork roasts etc) use the electric, 5 burner gas hobs & It's a royalbpain to clean!
Honestly, I do regret ripping out the electric cooktop as I don't pay for power & bottled LPG is bloody expensive!
not free
$830. In SA.
Did get up to $1500 .. then got solar panels… I guess they do something
Just power bill? Like electricity only?
Electricity around $80/quarter for 4 (winter only, $0 for summer), we got 40c/kW WA gov rebate will 2020.
Gas around $300/quarter
About $115/mth during winter. Summer is around $175/mth. 2 adults and 2 young kids. No solar at the moment. Thinking of getting one.
5 Adults $600 per 2months
About $220 every 3 months (with no discount) . I have solar hot water.
Just discovered that the good discounts they sign you up to only lasts 12 months
Apparently they are going to send me a reminder before the next 12 month plan expires. I just signed to 16% off for the next 12 months.
Check an electricity plan comparison site. Most electricity prices end up very similar after discounts, so there's no real benefit having them. The cheapest plan I found actually has no discount and no late fees, so it's a hell of a lot simpler.
$~200/quarter.
Single, living in a 4bed house with a pool (pool pump runs during the day). 3kw solar + solar water.
Solar water? you mean water heated up by solar?
S/he means it is too difficult to calculate/explain. $200 per quarter but then have to factor in the 3kw solar which obviously can run during day only. S/he seems to indicate that solar power is used chiefly for water heating but any extra input will be used to reduce pumping bill.
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About $130 per qtr. I have gas though and solar panals. Two people in household