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I think it's your Geo.

My 80 gallon electric hwh only costs us around $25/mo., family of 5, at 0.17/kWh.

Would be real curious on what monitoring shows though.

I don't want to hijack the thread. Will look at the efergy's tonight online and report back my findings.

Cynnergy said:

We are two here in an all-electric house during the week, and in the summer with no heat or AC, we average 10-20 kWh/day for hot water, cooking and laundry (including electric dryer). I don't know if you have any days where you haven't used heat or AC that you could use for comparison?

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My 3.5 ton, 14 SEER A/C compressor unit is using ~12kWh per day (just the compressor unit).
My electric dryer uses ~4kWh per load.
Water heater consumption is all relative to incoming temp, outgoing temp and gallons used. I found I came in very inexpensively with 77°F city water heated to ~126°F. The month I measured my water heater, my average was around 3kWh per day for two adults in the house.

johnny1720 said:

Sloeffle where are you located? Do you have city water?

I am in western new your and during polar vortex i was using 120 KWH per day.

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I live about 30 miles north of Columbus Ohio in Morrow County. We are on city water. We have a wood burning furnace that we heat with when the temps get really cold. However the geo would of ran during the day while we were gone.

Three panels eh? It appears that you only have one meter so I suspect a main panel and two subpanels. Buy one efergy and monitor the main panel. That will capture the amount of juice passing through to each subpanel for a "total".

If you somehow have multiple service drops then each would be metered you would need three monitors.

johnny1720 said:

Well that makes me feel a little better. I have a well pump which uses probably 5-10 kwh per day.

I have a pellet stove that will almost heat the house. However that means 2 bags of pellets at $10.
I think I might install my efergy directly onto my geothermal this winter. So I know exactly what it is costing me.

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You needn't leave it there all winter, but just for a month and then divide usage by your heating degree days that month. You can then project what it would be for a whole winter by multiplying by heating degree days for the whole winter..

Highbeam said:

Three panels eh? It appears that you only have one meter so I suspect a main panel and two subpanels. Buy one efergy and monitor the main panel. That will capture the amount of juice passing through to each subpanel for a "total".

If you somehow have multiple service drops then each would be metered you would need three monitors.

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It is a weird but good setup. The drop form electric company comes into the barn. That is tied into two disconnect boxes. One is for the house and the other is for the barn. We put an addition on my house a few years ago and ran electric from the barn panel to a generator panel in the barn and then to a separate panel for the house addition because I wanted to be able to run a generator for at least half my house.

Of course you can now lease a generator hookup from the electric company that goes on the back of your meter and would power the whole house.

johnny1720 said:

Well that makes me feel a little better. I have a well pump which uses probably 5-10 kwh per day.

I have a pellet stove that will almost heat the house. However that means 2 bags of pellets at $10.

I think I might install my efergy directly onto my geothermal this winter. So I know exactly what it is costing me.

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Rough Math - I was probably using 8KWH a day just to keep the water thawed out for my sheep and chickens during our wonderful polar vortex of 2014.