A 40 dollar electric bill is a greater mystery than a 200 dollar one.
First off, are you being billed at the same rate? Commercial or residential? Usually the first few hundred kw-hrs are discounted for residential customers.
Is he consuming four or five times as many kw-hrs as you? It's possible one of your meters is wrong, but not real likely. More likely that he has a few appliances that pull a lot of current. Old refrigerators, for example. (We have three refrigerators and a freezer, a fact that comes to mind every time I write a check to Detroit Edison.) It's not uncommon for air conditioning to double, triple or even quadruple power consumption in summer.
Did he maybe sign up with an alternate power supplier? In many states, you can buy your power from companies other than your local utility. Some of these companies run scams where your rate is actually higher than the utility.
There's a device called a "Kill-a-Watt" that you can plug between an appliance and outlet to monitor actual power consumption. It's a good tool for running down 120V appliances that are power hogs.
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