1/10/2011

2010 Utilities in Review

Below is a graph of our utility expenses for the 2010 year.  I thought it might be interesting to share this and to see if anyone else does a similar blog post.  Our average monthly bill decreased from $267.45 (2009) to $252.73 (2010), which is stellar.  Hopefully next year we can see a similar if not better decrease.

I should mention that we're heating a three bedroom, 2.5 bathroom townhouse - so it's a decent sized home.  Not as big as a big house, but not as small as a condo.

Each bill includes:

  • Electricity
  • Gas
  • Water
  • Waste
  • Recycling
It looks like May had a huge spike, but May/June had a billing error.  The actually usage is the average of those two numbers.  Apparently, that sort of thing happens fairly often as they had a process in place to deal with it.

What do you pay a month for your utility bills?

4 comments:

  1. Interesting. My numbers wouldn't really be worth sharing since I moved mid-year, but it is really interesting. =)

    Now I pay around $25/month for water/sewar and $84/month for electricity.

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  2. We have a well, so no water bill. We pay about $150/month for hydro and $1300-1400/year for propane (which is our main source of heat). So I guess that averages out to about $260-270/month.

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  3. interesting. i should add up all our heating/electricty bills and see what the montlhly amount it.

    we started in August on the budget plan with hydro so theoretically we are paying the same amount every month now....

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  4. This was an interesting post. I made a similar one to my blog, hope you don't mind.

    Our high for 2010 was $313 and our low was $112. The average was $176. No water or sewer bills.

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