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leetnewb2 t1_ja2esbt wrote

Offshore wind is in its early stages in general here, but especially here. Wind power costs have come down tremendously, but onshore is simpler and less expensive. In a state like NJ, onshore isn't all that viable to scale up. Experience with offshore wind should drive costs down as it has elsewhere, but we sort of need the industry, process, and domain knowledge to do it effectively.

IMO, the question isn't whether the current offshore wind builds benefit you directly. Rather, it is whether offshore wind belongs in the energy portfolio in the long run. If it does, laying the groundwork today makes a whole lot of sense.

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jayc428 t1_ja2cn50 wrote

Are you sure your gas bill isn’t for two months or something?

$600 bill at $1.24 a therm comes to 483 therms in a month, which comes to 48.3 million BTUs. A house your size would have 110k BTU furnace, even at 120k BTU that kind of gas load is having that furnace or boiler running flat out 12 hours a day all month long, plus like 2 hours of stove/dryer a day. The weather hasn’t been nearly that cold for that to be happening.

I’d say something is wrong with you bill, possible misread on the meter, something like that.

Edit: forgot about delivery charges.

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