467 kwh in one day!!????

[DazedAndConfused]

I have only been in Texas once, about 25 years ago to Austin for a friend's wedding. Was warm and really quite nice, not as dry/hot as I thought it would be from the movies! But agree, its quite a cost to get there and back just now.

You must have been here the one day it didn't hit 105 degrees. I will say it is typically pretty dry, thank goodness.

And Austin has changed a LOT recently. Looks more like California every day.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

My main question is, could there be some sort of incorrect wiring or voltage 'draw' that could cause these huge numbers?

Not really. As mentioned above by @pc1966, if energy is genuinely being consumed from the supply, it has to be going somewhere and ultimately turning into heat. Any wiring defect dissipating many kilowatts or tens of kilowatts of heat would tend to destroy itself completely within seconds or minutes. Any incorrect wiring that caused excess power to be delivered to appliances, such as 240V where there should be 120V, would rapidly kill the appliances.

So either the meter is registering energy that is not being used (possible but unlikely, and easy to confirm), or it is being consumed by legitimate appliance loads but not achieving useful results for you

 

[ipf]

Seems you're lucky not to have lost your supply altogether, with the icy conditions in Austin at present.

You should have 'loaded up the truck and moved to Beverley.....Hills, that is'