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Tampa Electric Co. Needs To Hire An Arborist To Tell Them Money Doesn't Grow On Trees
Self | April 5, 2022 | Self

Posted on 04/05/2022 6:58:30 AM PDT by 4Runner

Budget Billing this year set our monthly bill at $200.00. Actual usage and cost for March-April 2022 was $147.06. I just cancelled Budget Billing with a snotty upstart young minority with one of those unpronounceable first names at their customer service line. This company continues to tell you that "Budget Billing" will NEVER increase your cost of electricity because they monitor your meter each month. Then, the only time they adjust the amount is at the very beginning of the year and it always is an increase.


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This is why utility monopolies are supposed to be illegal. But in Hillsborough County, not so much.
1 posted on 04/05/2022 6:58:30 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner
Actual usage and cost for March-April 2022 was $147.06.

What's it going to run when summer arrives in Florida?

2 posted on 04/05/2022 7:06:04 AM PDT by Wissa (The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.)
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To: 4Runner

In Pasco here we have teco too. They just took a 40% increase in the monthly meter charge since 2021. And teco lobbied the state of Florida and the other utilities to gut to solar arrangement.

I have solar and that 40% monthly hit for me, hits two meters and to me that more than covers the non-consumption part of the teco infrastructure.

Watch solar die in Florida.

They cleverly structured the new bill to grandfather in all solar so they wouldn’t have existing solar people FIGHTING the bill. But it’s never gonna payback for anyone new building solar.


3 posted on 04/05/2022 7:08:36 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: George from New England; 4Runner
Does your inverter have a "no output" or sometimes called "zero report" feature?

I put nothing onto the grid with my solar panels. Therefore, I'm not charged the solar fee. Plus, when the grid power goes down I still have power (assuming I have either sunshine or stored power in my batteries) because my solar system doesn't have to automatically shut off when the grid goes down (because I don't put power onto the grid anyway).

4 posted on 04/05/2022 7:14:59 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Wissa

that was my thinking... they never complain when the bill is more than what they pay.


5 posted on 04/05/2022 7:15:06 AM PDT by cableguymn
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Why does one have to pay TECO anything if the homeowner has made the investment in solar panels? Is it that the panels can’t provide all of the power needs for the residence?


6 posted on 04/05/2022 7:18:18 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: Wissa

Everywhere else’s “Summer” is already here, my friend. We’ve been in the high 80’s with high humidity for the past month.


7 posted on 04/05/2022 7:23:33 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: cableguymn

Always one of you with a Master’s Degree in Rude Studies skulking around in the background. And you always know what somebody else is thinking. That’s the dead giveaway.


8 posted on 04/05/2022 7:30:13 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

by all means.. give us the rest of the story.


9 posted on 04/05/2022 8:33:42 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: 4Runner

“Hello, this is Tampa Electric Company Billing, Florida Man speaking . . .”


10 posted on 04/05/2022 8:49:12 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: 4Runner

What generates electricity? Think now....


11 posted on 04/05/2022 9:11:05 AM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: Tell It Right

“I put nothing onto the grid with my solar panels. Therefore, I’m not charged the solar fee. Plus, when the grid power goes down I still have power (assuming I have either sunshine or stored power in my batteries) because my solar system doesn’t have to automatically shut off when the grid goes down (because I don’t put power onto the grid anyway).”

I don’t pay a solar fee. I pay the same monthly account fee (meter fee) that non-solar customers pay. That went from $15 ish to $21 ish a month.

I now have 28 kw of LiFEP04 battery storage. I only use it when there is an outage. Still makes sense to use the grid as my battery day-in-day-out.


12 posted on 04/05/2022 5:06:27 PM PDT by George from New England
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“Why does one have to pay TECO anything if the homeowner has made the investment in solar panels? Is it that the panels can’t provide all of the power needs for the residence?”

Yes. I need to be able to fire up 5 hvac units in buildings on the property, driers, water heaters, etc. So at times my loads are 3 times the rating of the hybrid inverter. I use a XW6848 from S/E.


13 posted on 04/05/2022 5:08:00 PM PDT by George from New England
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