Winter weather can cause us to turn up the heat, and sometimes even turn to alternative heating options. When the temperatures dip, it is harder to stay comfortable and warm. Add the wind chill on top of that, and it is easy to see why everyone's furnace or heat pump can run a lot more than normal.
To compound the problem, many people also utilize electric space heaters during winter cold. Although they are small in size, you might not realize how much it actually costs to run a space heater in your home.
For example, the typical space heater uses 1,500 watts (which is 1.5 kWh) per hour. If you used an electric space heater for 16 hours in a day, that would be 24 kWhs consumer per day by that space heater. If you used it the same amount of hours each day for thirty days, you would consume 720 kWhs of electricity with just that one space heater. That would cost you $89.13 on your Wayne-White Electric bill that month before any other usage is even figured in.
The bottom line is this: electric space heaters are very expensive to run, so use them sparingly if you must use them at all.