Hello! I am new here and was hoping that one of you experts could help me. I spent some time on Google in search of answers but to no avail.
I am new to Austin and I've just moved into a 1,000sq. foot apartment on the 13th floor of a downtown high-rise. I've never encountered an HVAC system that used "Chilled Water" for the A/C system. You can imagine my surprise when I opened my September utility bill from the City of Austin to see $418.90 in total charges, $329.69 of which were from my "Chilled Water Consumption Charge" (the others being Electric Current Charges of $57.75 and Water & Sewer Usage of $31.46).
In Baltimore, the entire 2,450 sq. foot home that I used to live in would average around $200/month in electricity from running the A/C during the Summer months.
I called the City of Austin to question the bill thinking it might of been an error, however they indeed confirmed the bill was correct and they said they saw me running the A/C pretty much every day throughout the month. Now at most I had the A/C on 69-70 degrees while sleeping at night, but most of the time it was only on 72-74 degrees. September is relatively mild weather in Austin. I asked the city representative to email me the data they were looking at (see below).
So my question is - what is the normal/average hourly gallon consumption of a Chilled Water A/C system while running? The monthly data shows me using an average of 3,203 gallons per day, totaling
96,100 gallons over the 30 days in Sept. I do not know enough about Chilled Water Units (and cannot find anything online) to tell me if this sounds normal or if there appears to be an error/malfunction somewhere that is inflating costs.
I would greatly appreciate any sort of answers/insight/etc. that one of you may provide!!
Thank you!
*I found a similar post talking about this but it wouldn't let me post a reply (it also won't let me post a link to it). It was called, "How to calculate chilled water usage".
I am new to Austin and I've just moved into a 1,000sq. foot apartment on the 13th floor of a downtown high-rise. I've never encountered an HVAC system that used "Chilled Water" for the A/C system. You can imagine my surprise when I opened my September utility bill from the City of Austin to see $418.90 in total charges, $329.69 of which were from my "Chilled Water Consumption Charge" (the others being Electric Current Charges of $57.75 and Water & Sewer Usage of $31.46).
In Baltimore, the entire 2,450 sq. foot home that I used to live in would average around $200/month in electricity from running the A/C during the Summer months.
I called the City of Austin to question the bill thinking it might of been an error, however they indeed confirmed the bill was correct and they said they saw me running the A/C pretty much every day throughout the month. Now at most I had the A/C on 69-70 degrees while sleeping at night, but most of the time it was only on 72-74 degrees. September is relatively mild weather in Austin. I asked the city representative to email me the data they were looking at (see below).
So my question is - what is the normal/average hourly gallon consumption of a Chilled Water A/C system while running? The monthly data shows me using an average of 3,203 gallons per day, totaling
96,100 gallons over the 30 days in Sept. I do not know enough about Chilled Water Units (and cannot find anything online) to tell me if this sounds normal or if there appears to be an error/malfunction somewhere that is inflating costs.
I would greatly appreciate any sort of answers/insight/etc. that one of you may provide!!
Thank you!
*I found a similar post talking about this but it wouldn't let me post a reply (it also won't let me post a link to it). It was called, "How to calculate chilled water usage".
source https://hvac-talk.com/vbb/threads/2244219-Average-Chilled-Water-Consumption-Rate?goto=newpost
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