said by IowaCowboy:Full rate your talking close to $300 (I'm guessing).
Yes, you're guessing. And you're guessing wrong.
I don't go crazy about only using A/C when I can't breathe anymore. Actually it stays around 75F while occupied. House is big and insulation isn't great.
The lowest usage I have ever seen was 700kWh/month this spring. I will call this the "base level". The average usage for 5 months of "summer" comes to roughly 6000kWh - so 500kWh/month on top of the base level. I also run a 1HP pool pump roughly 8hrs/day; I will be conservative and say it only takes 500W - so 120kWh/month. That leaves 380kWh/month for the A/C.
That's
$500/YEAR with peak rates of $0.26/kWh, actual net rate between peak and off-peak is much lower. YAWN.