Power Bills - What are yours like?

Ours is always around the $250 mark in winter.

We also have a heat pump and was thinking the same thing this morning about the best one to run it so any help on that front would be great.

Ours is around $200 a month, with gas heating.

Ours is $100-120 a month. 2 of us.
(no gas on top of this either)
Woodfire, no dishwasher, washing machine warm washes and not trying to conserve either.

ours is usually $180-220 which is with the prompt payment discount. we are with contact energy but have just changed last night to mercury energy. they rung us up and offered cheaper rates locked until 2010. we'll be saving $30-40/mth. might pay to give them a call kandice (if you aren't with them already)

our heatpump is in the dining/lounge area which is all open plan. i have the hall door open during the day to get as much heat up into the bdrms, lately on 25/26. then when the kids go to bed i shut the door and when we go to bed i turn it down to 20 and keep the door shut.

we've found the best way to run the heatpump is to never turn it off! just adjust the temp to what suits your needs and run it on thermostat

we run our dishwasher and dryer late at night to use the cheaper rate.

Ours was $130 a month with just 2 of us and me home a lot. That included the dryer which drys all washing. We have a lot of technology, and not a lot of heating.

When my brother moved in the bill jumped to $180 a month.

We have yet to see what the bill will be from our new house, with a heater, heat pump, dryer as well as technology (many computers) and very hot water.

We need to turn the hot water down to conserve a bit more power, though I'm not liking the thought of our next power bill.

Ours is between 120 and 150. Summer and winter depended. We dont have a dishwasher. No heating source as such unless we put the oilfin heater on. I dont use the tumbledryer in summer. But if I do in winter it goes up. No heated towel rails.

I think this winter it will go up as we will run a heater most of the time for Andrew.

I am dreading mine, we have our heat pump on all night and until about 8.30am each morning at about 20-23 degrees.

We do find that we close all the doors to the rooms that we don't use including the bathroom etc. Plus the curtains and blinds are all drawn when we get home. I am one for having windows open slightly to get fresh air in but have shut them all recently because its just too darn cold.

our last one was $200. I thought that was pretty good. we have gas so pay for that as well. Wonder what our new house will bring?

Our last bill was about $25.00 with prompt payment discount but that was only for a week, so i guess about $100 for a month (oh and that includes gas which we have for hot water and cooking)

Ours varies but generally never goes over $160ish, usually around $130ish.

Im home pretty much all day everyday, we have washing mahine going most of day and dishwasher 1 -2 times a day. We set column heater to go on at 4am (DH gets up at 6am) and its turns itself off at 8am (just before i get up) and then i turn on the little fan heater. that makes the house super toast (fully insulated home with thermal curtains and blinds and almost always in sun. I usually have tv (plasma which aparently uses more power than normal) going all day and laptop plugged in plus fridge, chest freezer, alarm clocks, dvd, sky etc. Also DH is ALWAYS using some kind of power tool or welder several times a week!! (we notice a change in bill when he uses welder alot!).

We are with bay of plenty energy.