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[quote=Anonymous]We live in a 2200 sq foot brick colonial in northern Virginia. Our monthly average electricity usage is about 350 kwh, which is about 20% of your average. We have both a heat pump that provides heating/cooling for a rear extension of the house, and an HVAC system that serves the main section of the house, use gas for heat and electricity for cooling. Do you also have a gas furnace? Or is your heat provided solely by a heat pump(s)? If I convert our gas usage (measured in "therms") to the equivalent energy expressed in kwh, it works out to a monthly average of 1500 kwh. So, the gas usage, expressed in kwh, is far greater than the electricity usage. Summing together the electricity (350 kwh) and the gas (1500 kwh) brings us to a total of 1850 kwh per month -- almost exactly equal to the average for your home. BTW, we keep our thermostats at 78F in the summer and 68F in the winter. [/quote]
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