You should be able to find the explanation yourself. Put all your old bills together and compare klw to cost, also check if your plan changed and the rates increase to tier change. Has your klw ph gone up? If so by how much? It seems what you need to find out is if your energy USAGE has gone up or you energy COST. Def. figure it out before blaming the neighbors as I doubt they or the General Construction they hired are willing to steal thus risking fines and penalaties, also stealing electric isnt easy. I have rentals and once a tenenant was using a ton of electric wood working at home. Once he reached the highest tier his electric plan auto switched to "commercial" which caused the bill to double. Anyways facts not speculation will resolve your problem, or at least provide an explanation.
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You should be able to find the explanation yourself. Put all your old bills together and compare klw to cost, also check if your plan changed and the rates increase to tier change. Has your klw ph gone up? If so by how much? It seems what you need to find out is if your energy USAGE has gone up or you energy COST. Def. figure it out before blaming the neighbors as I doubt they or the General Construction they hired are willing to steal thus risking fines and penalaties, also stealing electric isnt easy. I have rentals and once a tenenant was using a ton of electric wood working at home. Once he reached the highest tier his electric plan auto switched to "commercial" which caused the bill to double. Anyways facts not speculation will resolve your problem, or at least provide an explanation.
Also some electric companies will charge WAY WAY WAY more in the higher tiers due to the fact that your using electricity for non essential purposes. Most states are chargin more per KW when high amounts electricity is be used for non essentials, which I do agree with. If you want to use 10-15x the normal energy usage for luxury then you should be paying more per KW, especially with the current energy problems in the US. If you can afford luxury items that use more energy than an average family then you be able to pay the higher energy cost. There is not infinite electricity. This is def something you should of investigated and planned for before the investment in the tanks. Your carbon foot prints effect us all and your excessive waste of electricity is only slightly offset by higher energy costs.
I agree with most u have stated here....I did plan on my electric bill going up due to more use of electricity because of my tanks but not doubling....I've had my 360 a few months now and my bill barely rose $40-50 the following months after I set it up and it has nearly doubled now out of randomness...I think it has either been a mistake on misreading my meter, my air condition has a leak, or my dolphin pumps are sucking up electricity....I will find out in the next few days....
Thanks man I will have them recheck....My Dad worked for SCE for over 30 years as the VP of the company lol and I live a block away from the headquarters...
somethings wrong. wayy wrong. i have 21 tanks running in my fishroom, run 4 window ac units nonstop durring the summer not to mention all the standard stuff in the house... worst bill ive had was around 400 and i had 30 tanks running for that bill. im in so cal 90605 sce
A heat pump is a central heating and air conditioning system common in the US in areas that experience moderate winter temps.
There are likely millions of them in California.
There are traditional HPs, geothermal HPs, water source etc.
But basically, if you have a typical central heating/cooling system that conditions your whole house, by using a thermostat on the wall, then you may have a heat pump.
If you DO have a central heat/AC system, and a T-stat on the wall, chech the system settings options.
You should see "Heat, Cooling, Off" at the minimum. If your T-stat also has a setting for "AUX Heat, OR Emer Heat" then it is a heat pump.
The problems with this is that with most heat pumps, they use a primary source of heat that is very energy efficient. But they also use a secondary or "emergency backup" source of heat that is far less efficient. Electric strip heat being the least efficient of those, and is the most common.
Heres what happens.
If your primary heat source is not working properly, the secondary kicks in. Many folks don't even realize that's happening.
When it does, those heat strips suck power like a fat kid sucks gravy on thanksgiving.
Ive seen customers bills go from 200 bucks in January, to 800 bucks in February, when the temps were actually warmer and the bill should have gone down.
If you DO have a heatpump, that is the first thing I would check. Have a qualified technician come and service the system to see whats going on with it.
Ive even seen systems malfunction and run the heat strips while in AIR CONDITION mode!
Now thats like running a jumbo jet engine to heat up a mug of coffee.
Man honestly this is the best advice I have ever received from somebody here on mfk...Thank you so much for time and your knowledge...I will have a ac specialist come check this out for me...Hopefully this is the problem so I can take care of it...
Dolphin pumps suck ,i am just about to get rid of mine, very cheaply made pumps..
I still find it hard to believe that fish tank equipment is what causes a high electric bill. I have never had a bill over $100 (knock on wood). I run a T-5 unit (lights and fan) on my saltwater tank, a pump (I don't remember the specs but its a decent size), protein skimmer and UV sterilizer on that tank as well. I have a 150gal tank that runs a fx5 and emperor 400 hob filter and a heater and the lights when they are turned on another 150gal tank which runs a heater, lights (when I turn them on), a ehiem canister filter (a big one that you cant buy at the lfs) and a emperor 400 hob filter (both large tanks are about to undergo a large diy filtration reconstruction though). I also have a small tank running with a sponge filter. My bill is like $80/month with that running plus the household light usage, laundry being done a few times a week and running the dishwasher as well and the a/c. I also lived in a really small apartment it was about $70 a month, I did not have laundry in that unit and I hardly ever ran the dishwasher. I did use the a/c and household lights and I baked a lot when I lived there. I had all 3 of those tanks running plus a 55gal, a 45 long, 10gal and two 20 gal (8 tanks total) all those tanks (not counting the 3 which had the same set up they do now) had hob filters (two on some of them), heaters and lights. The large tanks all had emperor 400s and the three small tanks had random small filters. I dunno that is one crazy bill. If they give you the run around don't let them win that way - you need to keep bothering them until they find out whats going on. Keep complaining/asking about it.
