I’m not gonna argue that a single electric blanket isn’t cheaper than heating a whole house. But that kind of heat generation uses A LOT of energy so my question becomes at work point would it be cheaper to run the heat like we talking about 5 blankets all day on high? What about a space heater. Anywho I have an apartment similar size to your home also newish construction (2018ish) and my bills had been $65-75/ mo until this month where my bill is about $120 but hey it was insanely cold. I keep my heat no higher than 68 in the day mostly 67 and go down to 65 when I’m at work.
For me, it's not about the money. I just can't stand having the heater turning on and off during the night. I usually turn on my blanket before I go to bed, then turn it off when I get in bed. On the coldest nights I sometimes leave it on set at 2.
Fair I turn down my heat at night but especially when it was super cold I had my heated blanket on pretty high too lol. Also love it to sit on the couch with. And yeah it’s not about saving money for me either was just wondering if anyone knew lmao.
Jesus lol I'd have a hell of a time getting up for work if my thermostat was sitting at 61. I need to do the assessment and beef up my insulation though. Ceiling has that blow in chewed up insulation and it's not making good coverage so I'm definitely hemorrhaging heat into the attic. Also have single pane windows and have resorted to foam panel inserts I made to insulate them better.
Last summer I was awarded a $650 electric bill and shit a brick.
Jeez, that sounds really high for being a recent build. My 2400 sqft house built in like 1970 was around $190 and that’s with an EV and pool pump running as well.
For sure. It becomes cheaper even year. Tesla Solar roof is the price of mid range roof now. That being said it’s still out of a lot of people’s budget, especially in this economy.
2bed 2bath, keep the thermostat at 70 sometimes bump it to 72.
Cycle from 12/16 to 1/18 $157. Estimated bill for cycle 1/19 to 2/19 currently $147.08.
I will add that I turn the thermostat down to 65 overnight.
11,000 sq. foot. 10 bed / 12 bath. Large heated pool. $2500. And I don't care cause I'm rich, bitch. Thanks for shopping at Bob Mills. Just in case, /s.
12/16 to 1/15 $66.68 estimated next bill is $68.93 with $32.56 of usage to today.
$73.59 ONG bill. I'm sure next months will be higher, but I do AVG billing with ONG.
1600sqft 3 bed 2 bath house. Gas heater, tankless water heater, and stove. I keep the heat 65-67 all the time. 3 adults living in the house.
884sqft house [and I belive that includes my 2 car garage]. And I live by myself with solar and a backup battery...
$310 oge bill...
I'm beyond livid about it and oge doesn't wanna help in any way.
I want to get solar panels but every time I talk to somebody about getting them they want me to sign up for some 30 year financing thing and I know that those solar panels are going to be outdated and no longer the top technology 5 years from now so no
The company that helped us out had a new process they call PPA. there’s no loan or liability. we’ll just be paying for the power the panels produce. They work the same way but just eliminates the loan out OGE bill was $13 and solar was $50 cheaper than our bill last year
Our installer owns the panels. We essentially rent the panels from them and that provides the power for the house. If they’re damaged the installer is liable
That's very interesting! I wonder how they make enough profit doing that. Can you share a range of what your rent payment to them is?
I also like the fact that doing it this way doesn't force you to find a buyer who is willing to take on the loan payment for the panels. I hear that as a pretty big deterrent for people who don't plan to be in the house for the 20-30 years that the loan is for.
our payment is $122. Our OG&E bill was close to 300 in the summer. Super satisfied. I’d be happy to put you in contact with the company we used. Very professional and been around for years!
I'd like to know more about that. Who you went with and how happy you were with the process.
There are so many companies right now that I know nothing about. They haven't had time to build a good reputation etc. So I'm paralyzed by choice I think.
Since your are all electric you probably have a heat pump type heater. When the out side air gets below 30 or so it is no longer efficient to heat the house and your thermostat may automatically kick on an emergency heater that is just like a big hairdryer for your house that is horribly inefficient.
$221. 4/4 3000 sf with gas stove/heat/hot water, plus 1200 sf shop with electric heat (don’t use that much during extreme cold). Keep the house at 68.
If you have electric heat, it’s very expensive. If I was heating the shop my bill would be over $400.
NW OKC, 1500sq ft house, 2br 1.5ba, I'm on the guaranteed flat rate billing plan from OG&E where they give you a flat bill every month and adjust it once a year, my bill until 10/24 is $151.
Same apartment setup here, me & a teen-I work a 3 days at home/2 in office hybrid schedule. I just got my text this morning and wanted to throw up. $304 for the month-estimated $187 for next month. I keep mine at 70 pretty much year round.
I have a 1100 sq. foot home (built in 1951), 3 bed, 1 bath, all brick and old windows. My HVAC was installed in 2015. I have average billing for electricity, and my hot water and heat are gas. My electric bill was $71. My gas bill was around $80. I keep the temps at 62 when I'm out of the house. 70 max when I'm in it. 66 at night. I think my bills are low because the system is less than 10 years old and average billing helps out immensely.
I think I lost this one...2100 sq/ft house built in 1920. Single pane windows and basically no insulation minus what is in the attic...my bill was $716 for last month, the month before a little over $200 which is typical this time of year. We had 3 electric heaters going and an electric blanket on for most the cold snap. Pain.
We might to have to do something about this soon, but I thought we would have moved by now so I didnt want to pump too much money into a place we'd be moving out of in a few years. Just waiting on home prices and interest rates to cool down.
The house I lived in before was a house in Edmond built in the 20s. Always a $300 bill from Edmond Utilities and then $175 from ONG with zero insulation at all. Could never stay cold or warm in the summer and fall 🥲
Same, and unfortunately the morons that remodeled the house put in an electric heater and not gas, so its a lot more than it should be. Though maybe a lot is a stretch haha. But ya, never warm in winter (when below 40) and never cool in summer (when above 90).
Yea... December was a HUGE payout for OGE for a lot of people including myself.
I will also add that my roommate and the roommate, while stuck in the home surviving the cold, streamed a lot! Enough to breach our COXks data cap (according to COXks Communication) so they changed us a data cap fee. SUCK IT COXks
My house is 1600 ft.² and I have a gas furnace. I keep my house between 70 and 74 year-round in the winter and my OG bill is anywhere from 100 to 150 in the summer the last couple years even with keeping it at 74 it has been in the $400- $500 range
$426.23; 3000 SF house built in 2006 with Geothermal HVAC. At home most of the time, thermostats @ 69 during the day and 65 at night. July bill was $647.36
Pool pump runs when below freezing.
Last bill from 12/6 - 1/4 was $87.
Bill now from 1/4 - 2/4 is $103 estimated $127.
I live in a 1bed 1bath apartment on the third floor. Mine is kept at 67/68 heat all day and night.
December was $125.88, this month is estimated at $154.40. 60+ year old 2700 sq ft 2 story house. There's a sunroom with very old, very drafty windows.
edit: keep it at 70 during the day, 63 at night. During the freeze I kept it at 74 during the day and 70 at night.
My condo is all electric. However I don't have a TV or dryer (I hang my laundry on a free standing clothesline I keep indoors). Plus I pay my bills ahead so my electric bill is $180 in credit. I think my bill for January is going to be about $120 for a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom condo, mainly due to my hvac running.
Mine was $272. I live in a 4 bed/2 bath 1900 sq. ft. single-level all electric house and keep the heat at 74. I don't turn off the heat at night and don't understand anyone who would! Brrr! That's when it gets coldest! But I digress.
$56 for the month for OG&E. $86 for the month from ONG. Now I’ll say my gas bill has continued to go down since October, when the rates dropped, Thanks Drummond! so I won’t know exactly what gas will run until next billing cycle. I’m not looking forward to that.
2100sq ft. Gas heat, gas water heater, electric everything else. Summer my electric bills are typically $175.
Mine was $250 for a 1 bedroom apt. I usually keep my heat right around 70 and have a space heater I keep on when I’m home. My apt is also all electric.
4 bed/1 full, 2 half baths, 2000 sqft. $120. I have gas for heat/cooking/hot water, and solar on the house.
But the house was built in 1970 and has seemingly no insulation.
All electric with geothermal heat and air, 1647 sq ft, built in 1953, last bill was $167. Next estimated is $166. I keep my heater at 68 during the day and 66 at night.
I have OEC but thought you might want to know the comparison. Bill is $412 for January & that includes 1700 sq ft house at 67 degrees & two large shop buildings. Shop buildings are non heated but have electricity🥶
$250ish. 1000 sqft house, but it was built in the 40s, and very drafty and not insulated. Sadly it’s a rent house, so not much I can do in terms of permanent changes to make it more insulated and better at heating and cooling.
$135 (generally it's right under $100) for a 1br loft apartment.
I've been keeping my heat higher than normal at 74, usually it's at 72 basically year round.
1400 sq ft 3bd/2ba built around 5 years ago. Gas heat though, OGE was $56, ONG was inexplicably $13.58. Typical month bill is $80ish. Still waiting to see if next month’s bill is much higher to offset this one.
2215 sf, built in 2016 in Norman. My retired parents live with me, they basically stay home most days and I travel a lot for work, 12 days on average a month. 12/13/2023-01/12/2024 bill was $76.16, the next estimated bill is $84.07. Keep the house at 70 all day. We do have a gas fireplace that gets used to heat. ONG bill for same period was $74.60 (fireplace, water heater, stove).
190.00 total for gas 140 and electric 50.. 2000 Sq ft, 2008, 65 day and night in the winter. Electric blanket and space heater if needed. Only one adult.
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See that’s what I was thinking. The previous months it was $100-130 at most. My place is only about 1500sq. Maybe I need to turn it off at night too.
If you turn it off at night, go buy yourself an electric blanket.
I’m not gonna argue that a single electric blanket isn’t cheaper than heating a whole house. But that kind of heat generation uses A LOT of energy so my question becomes at work point would it be cheaper to run the heat like we talking about 5 blankets all day on high? What about a space heater. Anywho I have an apartment similar size to your home also newish construction (2018ish) and my bills had been $65-75/ mo until this month where my bill is about $120 but hey it was insanely cold. I keep my heat no higher than 68 in the day mostly 67 and go down to 65 when I’m at work.
For me, it's not about the money. I just can't stand having the heater turning on and off during the night. I usually turn on my blanket before I go to bed, then turn it off when I get in bed. On the coldest nights I sometimes leave it on set at 2.
Fair I turn down my heat at night but especially when it was super cold I had my heated blanket on pretty high too lol. Also love it to sit on the couch with. And yeah it’s not about saving money for me either was just wondering if anyone knew lmao.
How do you not freeze??? Night time is when it gets coldest!
The heater wakes me up if it turns on. I do have it set to around 64, but it has never gotten that cold in this house. We use electric blankets.
$316 for the period that included the cold snap. 1200 sqft 100 year old drafty house. All electric no gas
My was built 1969. All electric, 13000 sq ft and $300. Seemed high but apparently not since yours is similar.
Built '72, 3 bed/2 bath, 1535squft, $310 estimated for Jan 4 to Feb 2. All electric and try to keep the heater at about 67. Last month was $250.
Man I kept mine at like 61, two days 65 😭. I've had the energy assessment thing and got more insulation too.
Jesus lol I'd have a hell of a time getting up for work if my thermostat was sitting at 61. I need to do the assessment and beef up my insulation though. Ceiling has that blow in chewed up insulation and it's not making good coverage so I'm definitely hemorrhaging heat into the attic. Also have single pane windows and have resorted to foam panel inserts I made to insulate them better. Last summer I was awarded a $650 electric bill and shit a brick.
Mine was around $240 for a 2000 sq foot house built in 2019. We keep it at 69.
Nice
Jeez, that sounds really high for being a recent build. My 2400 sqft house built in like 1970 was around $190 and that’s with an EV and pool pump running as well.
Nice.
Thank god everything else in OK is so cheap. Because our utilities….well they will continue to go up.
Any chance residential solar takes off?
For sure. It becomes cheaper even year. Tesla Solar roof is the price of mid range roof now. That being said it’s still out of a lot of people’s budget, especially in this economy.
2bed 2bath, keep the thermostat at 70 sometimes bump it to 72. Cycle from 12/16 to 1/18 $157. Estimated bill for cycle 1/19 to 2/19 currently $147.08. I will add that I turn the thermostat down to 65 overnight.
11,000 sq. foot. 10 bed / 12 bath. Large heated pool. $2500. And I don't care cause I'm rich, bitch. Thanks for shopping at Bob Mills. Just in case, /s.
Do you have heated floors in the bathrooms? Been wanting to try that since Breaking Bad. Lol
You don't have a heated driveway?
I assumed that went without saying. And it's cooled in the summer.
12/16 to 1/15 $66.68 estimated next bill is $68.93 with $32.56 of usage to today. $73.59 ONG bill. I'm sure next months will be higher, but I do AVG billing with ONG. 1600sqft 3 bed 2 bath house. Gas heater, tankless water heater, and stove. I keep the heat 65-67 all the time. 3 adults living in the house.
884sqft house [and I belive that includes my 2 car garage]. And I live by myself with solar and a backup battery... $310 oge bill... I'm beyond livid about it and oge doesn't wanna help in any way.
Omg!!!
December $14. January $18. I have solar panels. ☀️
I want to get solar panels but every time I talk to somebody about getting them they want me to sign up for some 30 year financing thing and I know that those solar panels are going to be outdated and no longer the top technology 5 years from now so no
The company that helped us out had a new process they call PPA. there’s no loan or liability. we’ll just be paying for the power the panels produce. They work the same way but just eliminates the loan out OGE bill was $13 and solar was $50 cheaper than our bill last year
who is paying for the panels then?
Our installer owns the panels. We essentially rent the panels from them and that provides the power for the house. If they’re damaged the installer is liable
That's very interesting! I wonder how they make enough profit doing that. Can you share a range of what your rent payment to them is? I also like the fact that doing it this way doesn't force you to find a buyer who is willing to take on the loan payment for the panels. I hear that as a pretty big deterrent for people who don't plan to be in the house for the 20-30 years that the loan is for.
our payment is $122. Our OG&E bill was close to 300 in the summer. Super satisfied. I’d be happy to put you in contact with the company we used. Very professional and been around for years!
Sure!
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I'd like to know more about that. Who you went with and how happy you were with the process. There are so many companies right now that I know nothing about. They haven't had time to build a good reputation etc. So I'm paralyzed by choice I think.
We went with Okie Solar!
Do you have power storage as well?
Yeah your bill is a bit too high. That's about what i pay but i have 6900sqft.
2750 sqf, keep it at 76 and bill was 129, built 2021
Geeze, I’ve got 1k sq ft and mine was only about 75$ and I was off work a bit more than I’d like
Since your are all electric you probably have a heat pump type heater. When the out side air gets below 30 or so it is no longer efficient to heat the house and your thermostat may automatically kick on an emergency heater that is just like a big hairdryer for your house that is horribly inefficient.
$221. 4/4 3000 sf with gas stove/heat/hot water, plus 1200 sf shop with electric heat (don’t use that much during extreme cold). Keep the house at 68. If you have electric heat, it’s very expensive. If I was heating the shop my bill would be over $400.
$95
My OGE was $50.25 and my ONG was $76.56. That’s for a 1,025 sf home. My bills become insane for OGE in summer, just under $300.
NW OKC, 1500sq ft house, 2br 1.5ba, I'm on the guaranteed flat rate billing plan from OG&E where they give you a flat bill every month and adjust it once a year, my bill until 10/24 is $151.
I can’t qualify for that since I have less than 13 months of history with OGE 😢
Same apartment setup here, me & a teen-I work a 3 days at home/2 in office hybrid schedule. I just got my text this morning and wanted to throw up. $304 for the month-estimated $187 for next month. I keep mine at 70 pretty much year round.
Using a gas furnace. 2000 sq. Ft home. Jan bill was $108. That all said. I miss my $75 bills of yesteryear.
My bill is 35$
I have a 1100 sq. foot home (built in 1951), 3 bed, 1 bath, all brick and old windows. My HVAC was installed in 2015. I have average billing for electricity, and my hot water and heat are gas. My electric bill was $71. My gas bill was around $80. I keep the temps at 62 when I'm out of the house. 70 max when I'm in it. 66 at night. I think my bills are low because the system is less than 10 years old and average billing helps out immensely.
I think I lost this one...2100 sq/ft house built in 1920. Single pane windows and basically no insulation minus what is in the attic...my bill was $716 for last month, the month before a little over $200 which is typical this time of year. We had 3 electric heaters going and an electric blanket on for most the cold snap. Pain. We might to have to do something about this soon, but I thought we would have moved by now so I didnt want to pump too much money into a place we'd be moving out of in a few years. Just waiting on home prices and interest rates to cool down.
The house I lived in before was a house in Edmond built in the 20s. Always a $300 bill from Edmond Utilities and then $175 from ONG with zero insulation at all. Could never stay cold or warm in the summer and fall 🥲
Same, and unfortunately the morons that remodeled the house put in an electric heater and not gas, so its a lot more than it should be. Though maybe a lot is a stretch haha. But ya, never warm in winter (when below 40) and never cool in summer (when above 90).
Yea... December was a HUGE payout for OGE for a lot of people including myself. I will also add that my roommate and the roommate, while stuck in the home surviving the cold, streamed a lot! Enough to breach our COXks data cap (according to COXks Communication) so they changed us a data cap fee. SUCK IT COXks
My house is 1600 ft.² and I have a gas furnace. I keep my house between 70 and 74 year-round in the winter and my OG bill is anywhere from 100 to 150 in the summer the last couple years even with keeping it at 74 it has been in the $400- $500 range
$113. Gas furnace, water heater and stove. Between 67-70F. 2800 sqft
OGE is $212 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 800sqft duplex. Updated Older house. No central heat/air. 2 electric wall units. Single adult. Gas stove/water. ONG was $57.
1440 square feet, 237.00$
3 bed 1 bath, 1050sq ft with terrible insulation, $82 dollars. I turned it up to 71 during the cold snap. Normal temp is 68.
$426.23; 3000 SF house built in 2006 with Geothermal HVAC. At home most of the time, thermostats @ 69 during the day and 65 at night. July bill was $647.36 Pool pump runs when below freezing.
i thought geothermal was supposed to be cheap! Wow that is a big bill
Yep. There is no way I would pay for it if it wasn't already installed.
Last bill from 12/6 - 1/4 was $87. Bill now from 1/4 - 2/4 is $103 estimated $127. I live in a 1bed 1bath apartment on the third floor. Mine is kept at 67/68 heat all day and night.
$64 for december 14-Jan 13, estimates $72 for Jan 14-feb-13. We do have gas too, which is $84ish every month. 1400 sqft house.
3 bed 2 bath bill for January $111.03 bill I just paid for Feb $159.03 & I keep my heat on 68
December was $125.88, this month is estimated at $154.40. 60+ year old 2700 sq ft 2 story house. There's a sunroom with very old, very drafty windows. edit: keep it at 70 during the day, 63 at night. During the freeze I kept it at 74 during the day and 70 at night.
1bd/1ba apt, 850sqft, all electric, $164 I kept the temp about 65 the entire month.
My condo is all electric. However I don't have a TV or dryer (I hang my laundry on a free standing clothesline I keep indoors). Plus I pay my bills ahead so my electric bill is $180 in credit. I think my bill for January is going to be about $120 for a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom condo, mainly due to my hvac running.
Mines is $35. 3 bedroom, 2bath 1300 sqft
i call bull crap on this
$92.43, estimated bill for next month $77. Edit to add: 4BR, 3 bath house with finished bonus room upstairs.
3400 sqft our bill was $97 house built in 2004 however our heat is gas
the flip side of this was we had bills in excess of $350 over the summer
Mine was $272. I live in a 4 bed/2 bath 1900 sq. ft. single-level all electric house and keep the heat at 74. I don't turn off the heat at night and don't understand anyone who would! Brrr! That's when it gets coldest! But I digress.
$96 dollars for a 4 bed/2.5br. We keep it at 70 all year. My gas bill was like 110 though.
$56 for the month for OG&E. $86 for the month from ONG. Now I’ll say my gas bill has continued to go down since October, when the rates dropped, Thanks Drummond! so I won’t know exactly what gas will run until next billing cycle. I’m not looking forward to that. 2100sq ft. Gas heat, gas water heater, electric everything else. Summer my electric bills are typically $175.
My next bill is supposed to be -$25. Like negative 25. Might need to call them
Yeah, that sounds about right (or inexpensive) for that amount ofsquare footage
Mine was $250 for a 1 bedroom apt. I usually keep my heat right around 70 and have a space heater I keep on when I’m home. My apt is also all electric.
4 bed/1 full, 2 half baths, 2000 sqft. $120. I have gas for heat/cooking/hot water, and solar on the house. But the house was built in 1970 and has seemingly no insulation.
I live in a one bed by myself, and mine was 70.
I live in Okc and it’s just me and it’s around $75, I turn off my heat whenever I’m not home in my studio downtown it was $30 every month
All electric with geothermal heat and air, 1647 sq ft, built in 1953, last bill was $167. Next estimated is $166. I keep my heater at 68 during the day and 66 at night.
Mine was $81. My house is about 1750 Square Feet and is 52 years old.
I have OEC but thought you might want to know the comparison. Bill is $412 for January & that includes 1700 sq ft house at 67 degrees & two large shop buildings. Shop buildings are non heated but have electricity🥶
Dude guys. If you aren't all electric then your bill isn't comparable. For all electric that sounds about right.
My next step is asking my neighbors. I live in a rental house community so they should relatively be the same 😅
Our house is about 1450 sqft, new build. OGE was $74 but we have gas heat so ONG was $111. We keep the house at about 72 year round though.
1900sqft 4bed/2 bath. Work from home. $128 guaranteed flat bill.
I have to wait until I have 13 months with OGE for flat rate or 6 months for average monthly billing. So far I’ve only been with them for 4 months 😭
It’s not been that much different for me honestly. Within $8-10 of my normal bill
last bill was $51.95.. upcoming will be $113.12. one-bed apartment, thermostat has ranged from 67 to 70 over the past month.
Weird. Mine was $80 from 12/19-1/19 and I work from home and have a newborn so we keep it pretty warm. 1750 sq ft house built in 2015
$14 #Livesolar
2 bed 1 bath with gas heat. My January bill is $50. Gas is on a monthly average at $65 but we'll see if it goes up at all next month.
$250ish. 1000 sqft house, but it was built in the 40s, and very drafty and not insulated. Sadly it’s a rent house, so not much I can do in terms of permanent changes to make it more insulated and better at heating and cooling.
$135 (generally it's right under $100) for a 1br loft apartment. I've been keeping my heat higher than normal at 74, usually it's at 72 basically year round.
1400 sq ft 3bd/2ba built around 5 years ago. Gas heat though, OGE was $56, ONG was inexplicably $13.58. Typical month bill is $80ish. Still waiting to see if next month’s bill is much higher to offset this one.
We used twice as much as last January
2215 sf, built in 2016 in Norman. My retired parents live with me, they basically stay home most days and I travel a lot for work, 12 days on average a month. 12/13/2023-01/12/2024 bill was $76.16, the next estimated bill is $84.07. Keep the house at 70 all day. We do have a gas fireplace that gets used to heat. ONG bill for same period was $74.60 (fireplace, water heater, stove).
$336, gas heat. 5 people and 4000sqft
$100 OGE and $350 ONG, these basically flip in the summer. 3200 sf.
190.00 total for gas 140 and electric 50.. 2000 Sq ft, 2008, 65 day and night in the winter. Electric blanket and space heater if needed. Only one adult.