Yeah. Oh what a day! Here in Alabama, we are enjoying being on the list I saw on the tube the other day as the 5th highest electric bills in the nation. Wow. Our average bill, we are on the program where we pay the same every month and they adjust our bill every few months based on our usage, has jumped by $75 per month. And we are doing all we can to hold our usage down. The 9 degrees temps we had a couple of weeks ago did not help!! Bama ain’t use to 9 and 12 degree temps. Ave in Jan is usually 53 high and 32 lows. Highs of 31 and lows of 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 22, are NOT usual here.
“Climate change” heating up the globe yet again.
I’m in NW Indiana and my current gas/electric bill from NIPSCO is $615.00. That’s for one month. I’ve never had such high utility costs.
In Kentucky we are on a similar plan. I pay $194 a month and will settle up in July. Right now I am about $360 to the bad. My electric bill in December was $369 and in January $459. I have new efficient heat pumps but the cold had them running a lot. My mother-in-law had one heat pump down and the other running at 65 and got a $600 bill for January!
When I bought the house 20 yrs ago in similar winters I might have hit $250-$275 in actual usage. Kentucky Utilities is always before the Utilities Public Screw’em Commission getting another price increase. There are months when we use substantially less KWH and still have higher bills than the last month.
The utility used to “come read the meter” monthly and my bill averaged $285 a month. Then one month a new reader suddenly said they were afraid of dogs even though the previous reader would love to see our dogs and pet and play with them as he was reading the meter and I got a guesstimate which was really high, so I joined their self meter read program and after two readings my balanced budget monthly payment dropped from $285 to $165 wonder what was happening here and in July the last two years I have had $30 and $50 settle up bills.
Now they have put up Smart Meters, this will also end badly for the consumer I’m sure.