"dsi1" > wrote in message
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On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 8:24:43 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> I was chastised the other day by a friend of a friend for using my oven. I
> said that I liked to use it a lot in the winter for baking and such
> because
> it helped warm up the house and that meant I could often keep the heat off
> when it was on. She told me that it is very costly to run an electric oven
> and that I shouldn't use it. Told me if I didn't believe her to go look at
> my meter next time it was on. I can't see that would help me as I am not
> in
> the habit of looking at my meter so don't know what it does to begin with.
>
> Anyway... Is there any truth to this? This person has told me a lot of
> other
> things that were wrong.

Your electric meter records the kilowatt hours that your house is consuming.
Reading your meter one time won't tell you anything about your consumption
except give you the starting point. After that, you can read it after some
days or weeks have past to give you your electricity consumption.

You can then find the cost by multiplying the kWh by your cost per/kilowatt
hours. It will probably be around $.12/kWh. My guess is that you would use
about 30kWh a day i.e., $3.60 a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQQCtKLZpwQ

Do you mean just for the stove? Because if you are talking total
consumption, that would be about right for the summer. But for the winter,
MUCH higher. This year has been especially bad. Raised rates and cold snaps.
More like > $20.00 per day.