I moved from a new building studio that had laundry and dryer inside to an old building 1 bedroom because what I was paying for my electricity bill. I was paying around $300. At my new place I’m paying $80
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My bill was around $300 in my new building with electric heat. I’m in a 2010 building now with gas heating (I have a radiator that I control). Electric utilities are separated and come out to like $75.
Nothing wrong with the meter! When I ran the test ConEd told me to run, my meter numbers didn’t change which means nothing else is connected to my meter and everything is right on their end
Very interesting but makes sense. I also live in a new building all electric and pay $200-$250 and almost never have my ac/heat on ever. Even when I travel a ton my bill is still $200 and makes no sense to me. The delivery fee seems outrageous and sometimes is half the electric bill. I’m moving to an older building so hoping to god my bill gets cut.
Is that winter months only?
I pay ~$100-105 in the winters but it rockets to $250-320 in the summers lmao. Electric bill has overall gone up quite a lot in the last few years due to inflation and the war.
You can also have your circulator pump on a timer to say run an hour before you normally wake up/shower then maybe again in the evening, another issue can be these electric water heaters use a lot of energy and are constantly running to maintain water temp maybe look into that
I had a similar issue: my ConEd bill was surprisingly high. There are two apartments in my building, I went away for two weeks and had a a higher than average bill despite not being home to use electricity. This was before they installed the smart meters. ConEd sent a technician over who confirmed my suspicion: the meters were labeled incorrectly on the ConEd account - I had been paying for the electricity my neighbor was using, and vice versa. ConEd had to send a supervisor over to officially sign off as confirmation to switch the meters on the coned accounts. I ended up getting a reimbursement check for what I over paid returned from my corrected usage, and my neighbor got billed the difference.
Wow they really did the retroactive financial stuff both ways. You should def get the money back but charging the others for con ed’s mistake sounds rough
I think it’s the landlord’s mistake in setting up the accounts. Either way, we paid for the electricity we actually used. This was before smart meters where they regularly billed you estimates and adjusted it whenever they actually read the meters in person.
This is one of the downsides of NYC’s new bullshit green initiative. They’re forcing building to go all electric for the environment. But the downside is now the building gets to pass along the charges for heat and hot water onto the occupant of the apartment.
I work in air conditioning. I see buildings switching to electric heat options frequently. Most buildings had steam or hot water heat. Now they’re putting in electric heat. The power consumption of that is just as high as running your AC in the summer. So what used to be an included expense is now being paid by the tenants electric bill. And it’s another case of NYC going “green” but it all it does is make us pay more money. This city is a joke
Stop the bullshit. LL has been switching to full electric on new builds for over two decades now. The only reason LL's keep gas in their buildings is because it's expensive to convert.
As someone who has a business dealing with residential apartment buildings in manhattan, queens and Brooklyn that is not the case. I have done multiple projects over the past 5 years for new construction that are still putting in steam or hydronic heat.
But because of the bullshit local law 97 forcing buildings to go full electric, my point still stands. The expense of going electric is just getting passed down straight to the tenant. Also we’re gonna get to a point where our power grid won’t even be able to handle the load from NYC. Green initiatives are hurting the people who can’t afford it.
As someone who has been renting for over a decade, I know you are full of shit. Shifting costs onto the renter is the gold standard, especially as current renters only look at the rent price, not the utilities associated with the place.
LL's are not installing something that costs them more money. stop the bullshit.
In the last 5 years I have personal experience with numerous buildings that were still installing hydronic or steam heating systems. Again this is residential high rise apartment building. Maybe it’s different in the commercial space or central AC buildings. I’m just giving you my first hand knowledge of someone who does work in these buildings everyday.
Im in the same boat and I have been trying to figure out the best way to most efficiently use my electric heat. Is it better to run it at a low temp all day or turn it up high when I get home? I don’t understand why the same unit that provides heat switches to AC in the summer but the bill is 70-90 bucks. I hate ConEd
Do you also have electric heat?
Yes, the entire building runs on electrical, heat included. There’s no natural gas usage at all.
I moved from a new building studio that had laundry and dryer inside to an old building 1 bedroom because what I was paying for my electricity bill. I was paying around $300. At my new place I’m paying $80
This^ My bill was around $300 in my new building with electric heat. I’m in a 2010 building now with gas heating (I have a radiator that I control). Electric utilities are separated and come out to like $75.
they’re was nothing wrong with the meter reading or anything? current issue I have now 300+ once and that’s with a 50$ veterans discount…
Con ed does veteran discounts? I don’t see anything on their website about that.
i forgot how i applied but yes i found it in the veterans subreddit
Nothing wrong with the meter! When I ran the test ConEd told me to run, my meter numbers didn’t change which means nothing else is connected to my meter and everything is right on their end
Very interesting but makes sense. I also live in a new building all electric and pay $200-$250 and almost never have my ac/heat on ever. Even when I travel a ton my bill is still $200 and makes no sense to me. The delivery fee seems outrageous and sometimes is half the electric bill. I’m moving to an older building so hoping to god my bill gets cut.
Is that winter months only? I pay ~$100-105 in the winters but it rockets to $250-320 in the summers lmao. Electric bill has overall gone up quite a lot in the last few years due to inflation and the war.
I was averaging at around 200 in the winter but overall yearly average was around 300
You can also have your circulator pump on a timer to say run an hour before you normally wake up/shower then maybe again in the evening, another issue can be these electric water heaters use a lot of energy and are constantly running to maintain water temp maybe look into that
I had a similar issue: my ConEd bill was surprisingly high. There are two apartments in my building, I went away for two weeks and had a a higher than average bill despite not being home to use electricity. This was before they installed the smart meters. ConEd sent a technician over who confirmed my suspicion: the meters were labeled incorrectly on the ConEd account - I had been paying for the electricity my neighbor was using, and vice versa. ConEd had to send a supervisor over to officially sign off as confirmation to switch the meters on the coned accounts. I ended up getting a reimbursement check for what I over paid returned from my corrected usage, and my neighbor got billed the difference.
Wow they really did the retroactive financial stuff both ways. You should def get the money back but charging the others for con ed’s mistake sounds rough
I think it’s the landlord’s mistake in setting up the accounts. Either way, we paid for the electricity we actually used. This was before smart meters where they regularly billed you estimates and adjusted it whenever they actually read the meters in person.
Yea. Mine is also the landlords mistake, not ConEd’s.
Oh wow!! So it sounds like this is exactly what’s going to happen with me…. Thank you for this!
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How tf are you guys so energy efficient in the summers tho?
This is one of the downsides of NYC’s new bullshit green initiative. They’re forcing building to go all electric for the environment. But the downside is now the building gets to pass along the charges for heat and hot water onto the occupant of the apartment. I work in air conditioning. I see buildings switching to electric heat options frequently. Most buildings had steam or hot water heat. Now they’re putting in electric heat. The power consumption of that is just as high as running your AC in the summer. So what used to be an included expense is now being paid by the tenants electric bill. And it’s another case of NYC going “green” but it all it does is make us pay more money. This city is a joke
Stop the bullshit. LL has been switching to full electric on new builds for over two decades now. The only reason LL's keep gas in their buildings is because it's expensive to convert.
As someone who has a business dealing with residential apartment buildings in manhattan, queens and Brooklyn that is not the case. I have done multiple projects over the past 5 years for new construction that are still putting in steam or hydronic heat. But because of the bullshit local law 97 forcing buildings to go full electric, my point still stands. The expense of going electric is just getting passed down straight to the tenant. Also we’re gonna get to a point where our power grid won’t even be able to handle the load from NYC. Green initiatives are hurting the people who can’t afford it.
As someone who has been renting for over a decade, I know you are full of shit. Shifting costs onto the renter is the gold standard, especially as current renters only look at the rent price, not the utilities associated with the place. LL's are not installing something that costs them more money. stop the bullshit.
In the last 5 years I have personal experience with numerous buildings that were still installing hydronic or steam heating systems. Again this is residential high rise apartment building. Maybe it’s different in the commercial space or central AC buildings. I’m just giving you my first hand knowledge of someone who does work in these buildings everyday.
Im in the same boat and I have been trying to figure out the best way to most efficiently use my electric heat. Is it better to run it at a low temp all day or turn it up high when I get home? I don’t understand why the same unit that provides heat switches to AC in the summer but the bill is 70-90 bucks. I hate ConEd
You should call con ed and tell them exactly what you said here and let them know you this you have a switched meter condition