Outrageous electricity bills - Calgary

[Delphinus]

Yup, I hear you. My utilities are in that ballpark too, but I have 4 reef tanks and a freshwater tank. I'm cutting back though, I'm hoping there will be a slight reduction, but it's as you say, the electrical portion is really just a small component. All the other fees are a complete joke. I like how they are individual line items as if they are optional. "Oh I don't want that, so I'll opt out of the trans access defer rider for this month."

[my2rotties]

In my thread someone mentioned that that my rate could be estimated. Well that was the case fr January and I am paying what I used in reality total for two months. The estimate was much lower I guess then usual. The gas and power people come give my pups cookies when they come and when I think abut it, I did not see them in January.

My distribution charge is $40.70 and transmission charge $31.13 for that billing month. Geez I thought Enmax was criminal when I lived in Calgary. I'm going to call and whine to Epcor anyways, it won't hurt...

[my2rotties]

Can I borrow it

Someone mentioned the one at Costco is really god so maybe I'll grab one when I go back in a week or two. I am thinking my crappy Blue line is a power sucker. Time to get rid of it...

Originally Posted by 24storm

I am going to get one of these ones tonight so i can do some checking on my stuff. Also Enmax has a program called easymax that lets you lock in your rate a 8 cents per killowatt for 5 years if i had done this before Jan i would have saved almost 100.00 on my Jan bill.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/pr...08474396672790

[yeeg]

my Enmax bill in December was $615 and the kicker is that the house was empty for 3 weeks and the temps turned down....

[i have crabs]

i used 1558kwh in january i switched to enmax this morning for the 8cents and it should save me $30-40 per month
fyi computers use alot of power also so start turning them off when your not using them for a while if possible
also pluging in your car overnight costs about 50cents so get a timer if you plug it in often

[i have crabs]

Originally Posted by yeeg

my Enmax bill in December was $615 and the kicker is that the house was empty for 3 weeks and the temps turned down....

gas is a lot cheaper than electricity, leave the heat up so you dont spend the money on heating up your tank

[Jay180reef]

Originally Posted by i have crabs

i used 1558kwh in january i switched to enmax this morning for the 8cents and it should save me $30-40 per month
fyi computers use alot of power also so start turning them off when your not using them for a while if possible
also pluging in your car overnight costs about 50cents so get a timer if you plug it in often

That's a good point, I remember when I built my computer I put in a 500W ultra quiet power source...definitely need to do some investigating with the Kill A Watt.

[Jay180reef]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Yup, I hear you. My utilities are in that ballpark too, but I have 4 reef tanks and a freshwater tank. I'm cutting back though, I'm hoping there will be a slight reduction, but it's as you say, the electrical portion is really just a small component. All the other fees are a complete joke. I like how they are individual line items as if they are optional. "Oh I don't want that, so I'll opt out of the trans access defer rider for this month."

SO frustrating, on the whole utilities bill I counted 18 random charges.

[Jay180reef]

The funniest part of it all is my water bill was only $11 (without random fees)

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by yeeg

my Enmax bill in December was $615 and the kicker is that the house was empty for 3 weeks and the temps turned down....

That's almost a $1/gallon...