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How to Lower Your Power Bill

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It's June 2020 and we just moved in to an all-electric manufactured home. I was told there was no gas bill and no water bill, only electric. We received our first power bill in July 2020 and it was $391! For two adults and one child, that did not seem right. PLUS, I was enrolled in a CARE program that took 30% off our bill every month meaning our original bill would have been $508.30! I work from home but I don't run the lights and TV and A/C all day. As soon as I was told that it will be this same amount in the following months (it's almost 100 degrees here too and I know the A/C is a big part of it) if we don't make some changes. I know the standard changes like not running your dishwasher or laundry as often, unplug things when you aren't using them, but I wanted to dive a little bit deeper into what I specifically did and hopefully this can help you as well: - We have a lot of natural light in our home so I decided to just leave the lights off during the day a