What are your power bills like? Also, con-ed EL2 status? (Accord: apartments, lease)

[iammax]

I'm in a studio in manhattan (370 sqft) in a building put up about six years ago (I've been here about 16 months). My power bills are usually about 50-60$ in the winter and mild months and 70-80$ when it's hot. I never really thought about if this was normal until the last three months when my bills were all about 105$ and it got me thinking about it...

According to the landlord, "Heat and water are included; electricity, telephone, and cable service will be billed separately."

I'm not sure if "heat and water are included" means HOT WATER is included. I don't know how the building gets its hot water. I do know, however, that basically everything is electric. The A/C is electric, the stovetop burners are electric, there is no stove so I got a toaster oven (electric of course!), etc. I tend to cook a lot too. My research is computational chemistry so I am basically in my apartment on the computer all day, so I probably do use a lot of power.

One thing I've noticed that my bills (I don't even get the bills, the landlord just puts the power charge on my rent statement, I have to ask for the bills, and I only have one actual con-ed bill from when I asked the landlord for one) says my apartment is EL2 which is "small non-residential". I assume this is because the apartments are licensed, not leased (it's through CUNY, they do it this way so they can kick us out if we fail out of our academic programs, which is probably illegal for a regular lease; apart from this, it's basically a lease). Maybe the fact that is ISN'T a lease makes it technically non-residential or something? Does anyone else have a similar situation? I don't know what the other classifications are.