Hayward
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Re: Is there something wrong with my old lighting?
My next step is to get my roof redone with a new product called Snow Roof (an elastic plastic like overcoating of existing roof. It claims to be 90% reflective, and can drop roof temperature from 250 degrees to 80 (or actual temperature) That should help with the AC a lot.
(roof due for replacement soon anyhow and this can extend it a long time for much less than fully redoing the roof...plus the energy savings)
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Corona, CA | How much is a kWh in Florida? Here I'm paying as much as .19 per, depending how much I use. |
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Hayward
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| said by animejunkie:
How much is a kWh in Florida? Here I'm paying as much as .19 per, depending how much I use.
Can't say for all of FL, here in KW it is a quasi City owned utility, and including "fuel adjustment" usually runs between $.10 and $.12/kwh depending on time of year.
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Corona, CA | That's still pretty expensive. |
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Hayward
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| Not really most places I have ever lived (NE and here) is has been about $.09 before adjustment. With the exception of Long Island where like you it is about $.20 because the built a nuke plant that never got put in service and they are still paying off.
As to your original post.... $.19/kwh... yes you could save a LOT of money by converting your lighting. Though the bulbs cost $5-10 they also should last 10 years using a quarter of the energy. They are also MUCH cooler, which will also help with the AC costs. (instead of having 20 little toasters always cooking away)
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| It doesn't help I'm basically in the middle of a desert where I have to run AC from basically now through November. Without the AC my electric bill is about $40 cheapo lights or not, with the AC, $180. What did save me a ton though was turning off my PC's at night. Before I moved from the coast my electric bill was always $80, turns out half was computer power. |
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Hayward
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| Own or rent central or window/wall units?
That is an awfully big difference for just AC. If you own and they are older units replacing them could save you a lot. We use AC here a lot too especially April-October, some unrepentant snow transplants year round. 
I have a condo I now rent out, and the central died this year. (15 yrs old) and the tenants say their electric bill now is about HALF what it had been, and I think the new one is even a larger unit.
Even if win/wall units, if they are more than a few years old, are using a lot of extra energy compared to a new one... again as much as twice. (they have made huge strides in compressor efficientcy in that time...my new fridge use about half what the 10+ yr old dead one did too.
You could still probably cut $10/mo with the lights...which means you would pay off 1 bulb a month, and then for the remainder of their 10 year life the savings are 100% off the top. I have a few that are more than 10 years old. Most that failed before that, I broke moving. (Figure a PC uses about what a couple of incad. lights would as a comparison with what you said about that.)
And again with AC, incad.'s put out a LOT of heat...you can unscrew a running compact Flor. without any burn discomfort...that 75% wasted heat energy is all heat the AC has to pump out.
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Corona, CA | Own with central air (Trane). The house was built in 1990 but the A/C unit looks newer. The problem with central air is 1/2 the house is AC'd and I'm not even in there. Closing the vents and doors to those rooms doesn't seem to matter. |
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| Also especially if flat roof, (but for any really) I'd look into Snow Roof... I have a friend that has been installing it for a while now and he says the first coat (dark stuff) is "hell", but when the "Snow" coat goes on you could lie on it naked and not be uncomfortable.
That is where most of my heat infiltration comes from. Otherwise concrete block house with shaded windows.
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| LOL, like the Flintstones. I have a concrete tile roof...typical planned community cookie cutter stuff similar to this »www.williamlyonhomes.com/wlh/com···ty_id=23 in this same development.
Unfortunately their ads fail to mention the 3 hour / day communte and the fact that it's 10 miles to the nearest grocery store. Not to mention the supplimental property taxes which total 2.5% (of sales price). Gotta love California. Going to my 'hood though you would think you left SoCal and arrived on Venus...'bout as hot and just as far.  Meanwhile, no cable modems, no DSL...go figure.
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