My average electricity usage has been slightly above 200kWh for the past 5 months. (~$45.41)
This month, my electricity usage is 141kWh = $33.74
A drop of around $12.
My gas usage used to average around 40kWh. (~$7.74)
This month it is 54kWh. ($10.01)
An increase of around $2.50
It was a pleasant surprise to see around a $10 drop in utility bills.
I had expected a slight change due to changing some habits, but I thought it would be negligible.
A $10 drop isn't a lot in absolute terms but it's still pretty cool.
Ok so the change that I did was that I used gas to steam stuff instead of using electricity.
Previously for many months, whenever I needed to steam anything, I would put water into the rice cooker, put a bowl inside with whatever item, like a bit of bread, and turn on the rice cooker to steam my bread, or whatever.
In essence, this is using electricity to boil water and steam items.
Recently, I got a steaming pot. Just $20 at Giant. It's a big pot where I can put a plate of stuff inside and steam things. Well... it's just a big pot, doesn't really need to be a special pot.
And I've now started using gas to boil the water used for steaming, this is why my gas usage has increased and my electricity usage has dropped.
I still use the rice cooker to cook rice, but I don't use it to steam miscellaneous stuff, and I steam a lot of stuff, cos that's the main way that I heat up all the leftovers and free food that I get.
And as we all should know from my previous posts about power usage, it takes a lot of electricity to change temperature. Using electricity to heat things up or cool things down use a lot of power.
So I attribute my savings to changing my process for steaming food, from using electricity to gas, . Which is really pretty cool, cos it's such a simple change and when I steam in the pot, I can steam more things at once instead of using the smaller rice cooker. It's more convenient and it's faster. I don't know why I didn't bother to make the switch earlier.
Anyway, I don't want to keep going on about the same topic.
Long story short, I saved $10 off my utility bill just by changing my process to steam things.
Instead of using the rice cooker to steam things, I now use a big pot and use gas to steam my food.
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