High electric bill in an apartment, please advice!! (Dallas: apartments, how much)

[emylie]

Hello all,
Is it normal to have a $150 electric bill for a two bedroom apartment in Dallas(889 square feet)?
Please advice!

[Tamara0914]

Originally Posted by emylie

Hello all,
Is it normal to have a $150 electric bill for a two bedroom apartment in Dallas(889 square feet)?
Please advice!

My almost 800sq ft 1bd has never been more than 60-65.00. What temp are you setting to? If you're constantly running the heat then yes I would say so. Is your apt old/new? Age and insulation have a lot to do with it. My old apt was older and ran about 90.00 for the same amount of space.

[Allison81]

That doesn't seem normal. What do you keep it at while you are at work? Also, check your hot water heater. If it's set real high, that can waste energy.

[4Movingeast]

My bill for our 2800sq ft house is not that much, so not knowing details I would say look into it for sure

[ChristieP]

As cold as it has been recently, that's not surprising. Apartments are notorious for being poorly insulated.

[Pagusas]

Our apartment is HORRIBLY insulated and the windows are the worst I've ever seen. our bill last month was $133 for a 900 sqft apartment. Crazy, but its partially our fault as we are out of the initial cheap fixed rate period with Green Mountain, now we are paying the month to month rate, last month it was 11.3 cents! We'd fix it, but we are closing on our house on March 6th and see no point switching the apt energy company for 1 month.

[emylie]

When the weather is cold like today, the thermostat is set up to 70, otherwise it's at 65 or less.
The apartment is old and the heat is from the central heating system.

Last month, the bill was $212, but since we noticed that our Thermostat was not functioning properly(not calibrated), we reported the issue to the management; they did change the thermostat and made us pay half the bill!

We keep taking some readings on our submeter, and noticed that it's runs better than before but still our electric use seems always more than the neighbors' electric use(same apartment). I precise that we prefer layering up than
setting up the thermostat to a high number!

We turned off everything that consume energy except the refrigerator, and checked our submeter. The reading result was 5KWH more than it was (for two hours and half), is that normal?

we requested a refund at least for the days while we had the bad thermostat, and were told that they gave us half price with the first bill, and this second bill is ours and we have to pay it!
who should we address the problem? please help, we cannot sleep!

[mikestrong]

My apartment costs more to heat during winter then it does to cool during summer. Electric heat just sucks cost wise.

[kira kira]

Originally Posted by emylie

Hello all,
Is it normal to have a $150 electric bill for a two bedroom apartment in Dallas(889 square feet)?
Please advice!

How many kilowatts did you use last month? How much are you paying per kwh?

[Tominftl]

Have you checked to make sure they have the right meter assigned to your apartment ? I once lived in a town house where we had the wrong meter . Cut the power at the meter to see if it cuts the power in the apartment. If not they have your meter mixed up. Hey! It happened to me...