Welcome to the farm. We live in Alabama, home of the THIRD HIGHEST electric power bills in the nation!!! We are under Alabama Power which is a part of the Southern Company. GA and Ole Miss are also, but for some reason have much lower power bills than we do. One guy at church told me Sunday morning that his bill more than doubled. I grew up in a home with gas heat, and when I lived in WA state, our home was gas. It heats great and in a short amount of time. Electric heat takes all danged day and in this cold snap we are under, the damned thing runs all night long.
But we went through great pains to make our home more energy efficient (variable speed heat pump, hybrid water heater, lots of insulation, sealing gaps). And added 20kW of solar with 18kW of continuous AC inverter capacity, and 90kWh of battery storage.
It doesn't save the world from our carbon sins or any of that doomsday cult global warming garbage. But it saves me more than it costs me.
Try Maryland. The idiots here have shuttered 8 or 10 power plants then have the nerve to blame the power company for rising rates.
They doubled this year for many people. We use natural gas for heat and cooking so it’s still possible to pay the bills.
Today is a bonus. My furnace needs a part to be installed tomorrow and isn’t operational. We’re heating the house with a diesel heater from our camper with the hose feeding through the window. I’ll heat the house all day with a gallon of diesel fuel. It used about ten watts to power the thing. If I wanted to I could hook it up to our battery for almost free heat.