If they are checking your meter every two months and billed the first month on an estimate of past use, your bill came out cheaper based on the things you did but possibly averaged between the two payments.
i just applied to have my sdge bill lowered since I am a student and only work part time. you can schedule a meeting with one of their reps to see if you qualify for up to %30 off your monthly bill
Appliance Annual cost Percentage of total
annual energy bill
Refrigerator/Freezers $404 10%
Pool/Spa $446 11%
Lighting $1,240 31%
Space Heating $1,308 32%
Total $3,881
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so look at the big ones first.
1) Lighting, you have CFL and Flourescent, either get disciplined about turning them off all the time, or adding timers or sensors, you should switch to LED lighting.
2) Space heating? maybe less space heat? get some sweaters.
Your wine cooler seems really high. High enough that I expect it is broken. You should put the meter on it for a day to be sure though.
Electricity rates in CA are really high. Assuming that you have gas heat, it is probably cheaper to use the furnaces than space heat. Especially if you heat to an oven like 78.
As has been mentioned, incandescent light are expensive.
Good suggestions but realize that this topic was discussed in Jan-2009. Original poster is probably not reading this thread anymore and he is too rich to get any relief from SDGE (living in ~5000sf house and all) …
