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They don’t say what the kWh usage is, just that the electricity cost in $$ is over $1000 on the highest month. For a unit surrounded by what should be other con
by ipython 1y ago
They don’t say what the kWh usage is, just that the electricity cost in $$ is over $1000 on the highest month. For a unit surrounded by what should be other conditioned spaces, that’s insane to me.
A quick web search indicates that nyc $/kwh is about 31c. So that’s 3225kwh in one month! My standalone house plus pool pump, dual zone ac, and ev charger doesn’t even come close. Clearly there is a major insulation issue which is the root cause and everything else is just trying to put bandaids on an arterial bleed.
- hbarka 1y agoOld brownstone apartments probably had poor insulation. Add to it that Brooklyn electricity charges are much higher than the New York average.
- gametorch 1y agoIf they're paying $1000/month at 30c/kWh, they could quite nearly run the latest over-the-counter bitcoin miner 24/7 with that amount of electricity usage. They have terrible insulation.
- weaksauce 1y agothey had a unit that uses resistive heating if it gets too cold instead of the heat pump which adds up in the cold ny winters I'd gather.
- 0xbadcafebee 1y agoFTA: > We do have bad aluminum-framed windows, and we also have no insulation in our ceiling, so maybe all the heat goes to our upstairs neighbors. I also have various fans sucking air out of the apartment non-stop, one in each bathroom and one from the clothes dryer (when I hold an incense stick up to it I can see it pulling in air even when it’s not running), plus I have an elevator that opens into the apartment which might have a chimney effect. They not only have zero insulation, they have negative insulation. They would have saved more money/energy by simply stopping all the heat/cold loss. And (at least in my state) they'd still get rebates for installing new insulation.
- stephencanon 1y agoYeah, we live far north of NYC where it gets much colder, and have never spent nearly that much on heating. Even when we lived in a converted barn from the 1930s with single pane windows and no wall insulation, the most we ever spent was about $500/month. Now (new construction, triple-pane windows, ground-sourced heat pump) it’s more like $80/month
- master_crab 1y agoThere is something seriously wrong with this person’s apartment. I have a three bed circa 1897 coop in Brooklyn. We have the leakiest windows this side of the Mississippi with multiple in-window air conditioners and my bill never goes above $450 in the summer (that’s probably about 250-300 in comparable usage for the middle of the country).
- 31carmichael 1y agoI have a 4,000 square foot house with two central air conditioners and a swimming pool. I don't think i've ever paid more than $350 a month.