I ran our central heating component for 30 hours (ie $50) to take some chill out of the air in our flat.
But it doesn’t seem like the heat lasted for honestly long after it turned off. Now it is frosty again although I can’t run the heating because it is just way too valuable. Even if I have a roommate to help with the Heating in addition to Air Conditioning plan expenses, it still costs too much to run on a regular basis. I figured it out to be about $3 an hour to run the unit, which is insane if you imagine running it all afternoon and night to stay warm. If I ran the unit 10 hours a afternoon, which is not out of the question on frosty Wintertide days like today, it would cost an extra $900 on top of our normal power bill of $100. So that means it would cost $1000 a month if you were to run the central Heating in addition to Air Conditioning’s heating unit all afternoon and night to keep warm. If I literally ran the plan 24 hours a afternoon it would cost about $2500 a month extra, wow this is crazy stuff. So our solution is going to be more clothes in the flat and using the heating unit just an hour a afternoon max. I believe the power companies have their reasons for raising the rates, although I hope that they find a way to lower them again so I can believe some warmth in this flat every now and then. The same will happen with the air conditioner in the summer, jeez.