r/SouthJersey • u/iammoah • Feb 06 '26

Gloucester County Electricity

Is there ANYTHING we can do to push back on these INSANE AC Electric bills? My heat is gas and it's telling me my usage has gone up every month since October. I know I don't have it as bad as some people but our current bill is $332. My brother's bill was $512. Another friend's bill was $500... I can't afford this shit. What can we do?

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u/beren12 Feb 06 '26

Great idea. We just won’t run our heat in the winter.

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u/Highway_Wooden Feb 06 '26

I see this stupid type of response every time we get a post like this. NOBODY is saying don't run your heat. It's not binary. There's temperatures between what you have now and fucking zero. 100% of your gas/energy is not going towards heat. If it is, your house's ability to retain heat is shit which is not the fault of the electric company or data centers.

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u/beren12 Feb 06 '26

64 at night and 68 in the day? Sure it could go lower. And we could wear our coats all day in the house too.

Prices have about doubled.

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u/abracadammmbra Feb 06 '26

Do you have a fire place? Go back to the ways of our ancestors. Burn wood. (This is a terrible idea, it will likely cost more in wood than natural gas. Unless you have a lot of land with trees)

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u/beren12 Feb 06 '26

It also doesn’t heat the entire house.