The pump can be good, but pumping into a restriction or excessive back-pressure that causes the power usage to go up - waaaaay up.
Most of the time, people with wells never think much about friction losses and excessive “head pressure” (ie, pressure at the head of a well). That is, until they’re in your situation, where you have a finite amount of energy at your daily disposal, and you find yourself saying “Wow, a huge chunk of our energy usage is spent getting water out of the ground.”
If you can get those pressure (PSI) and GPM numbers, then if you can get the HP and/or model # of your well pump flip me a message a PM and I can run some numbers for you on what your pump “should” be pulling for power draw. We used to own a farm in Nevada with four irrigation wells and a domestic well.... so I’ve been down this road with wells that had power bills in the $3K to $5K/month range. It costs a lot of money to pump 1200 GPM out of a well 235’ deep at 30 PSI...
Thank you so much. I have no idea of the numbers. I’ll have to see if my husband knows. I’m not even sure he does. We had the well dug about 6 years ago, costly over 12,000 to have it done. Our well is over 300’ deep.