caribbeandreams's Blog

The price I pay for electric is 11.3kwh. The end of August it will rise to 15.6kwh. Fixed income, this sucks. The only thing running in my house during daylight hours is the fridge, and two window units. Should I turn off the fridge, and starve? Or should I turn off the window units, and die of heat stroke?

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I pay 14.5. Mine is read around the third. April to May was 140,May to June was 214. I expect the July reading to be higher. Did you hear about the woman in Detroit? They put her in a new meter and her first bill was 16,000 bucks? They news said they were putting a lien on her home.

Sounds like yours was about the same as ours bil. Global warming???

In our case it's usage...we pay 13.4 right now (they are trying to get me to sign on at 14.4...i will when 13.4 goes away). my bill doubled this month. freaky to me is my atmos gas bill went from 20 to 55. yall know i have not turned my dang heater on and really how much hot water could we have used? lol

I use Direct Energy and I get a rebate each November which just about pays the bill that month. That helps. I don't know if they switched your meter or not,but mine is read electronically. If your meter has numbers on it instead of the little clock type hands,so is yours.

I've been fighting TXU for 10 months. We have a 3,500 sf home 6 years old home, radiant barrier, solar screens, less than 3 yr old energy efficient new AC and hot water heater, had TXU out to do the energy efficiency seal up of home. Get this... I do not use a cloths dryer or dishwasher, We turned our AC off back in May and are using window AC's. This has helped get our consumption down to 4000 kWh a mo. Only 2 live in home. No one can tell us what is using all this electricity. We even unplug computers at night. How much more primitive can we live. Changed to reliant. Just got our new bill, 3,020 at 19 kwh for 3 weeks. Times that out and see what we owe for living with no AC, dryer or dishwasher.

I am positive you know the difference, the story was about the woman's water meter being changed, not her electric meter.

I researched the story and found it. The meter is read by radio frequency and is 'said to be more accurate'. Before, the residents were billed from estimates. No warning was given to customers.

bil, that is so odd about your bill. i just pulled my reliant bill and it said i used 1720 for a 33 day period...shamefully i'm bad at leaving lights on, 2 fans running...the a/c low, a pool pumps runs constantly..2 fridges..a freeze...etc. dont guess it's possible to have an electric leak..is it?