I’m pretty cheerful with my last power bill I just got for $155 for the two month billing period.
Last year at this time I got a whopping $600 power bill for my little flat for two months.
Maybe this doesn’t sound like a lot in the States, but over here in Europe it was a large bill. Normally I was having power bills of about $60 a month during the high months, but that all changed with the war plus problems with electricity across the globe. I believe they fixed it somehow because the bills are much lower. Some local companys had to shut down their companies because their heating plus cooling bills were too high to pay plus their power ended up getting shut down, and i am lucky because now I have a roommate plus he cut my living expenses in half. Now I can live for about $1000, which includes running the central HVAC system when I am not using my fireplace to stay warm in the wintertime. I cook most of my meals at house plus can live off of about $200 a month for food if I don’t go crazy buying a lot of fish or other pricey meats. The local business near me where I shop has a good refrigeration system plus they keep the location air conditioned certainly well while still keeping their prices fairly low. I labor online for a couple hours a afternoon plus play music on the weekends, plus these two income streams seem to be enough to cover all my energy costs. Thank you to my HVAC system for working so well too!