OMG - the 26% SDG&E electricity rate increase!!!

[BonsaiNut]

I am sooooo frustrated with SDG&E right now I can barely speak. This year they got a 7% rate increase approved through the bureaucrats who are supposed to be looking out for residents' interests. Unfortunately, it was a skewed rate increase so that if you lived in an apartment you probably saw next to no increase, and if you live in a house you got WALLOPED by a double digit increase - in my case 26%. I have written letters to SDG&E and CPUC to no avail (CPUC did not even bother to reply). We have lived in our home for 10 years, and over that time our electricity use has fallen 20% while our bills have DOUBLED.

Ack!!

(Sorry just venting)

 

[®eefer]

I like my SDG&E bill. 150g reef, plasma, computers, etc....about $60/mo. Sometimes up to $90 with AC on.

 

[gcarroll]

If you aren't paying equivilent to the So Cal Edison rates, you'll get no love from me on your pain.

2 years ago I averaged $150/month
1 year ago I averaged $180/month
now $350+/month

 

[IsaaX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8177089#post8177089 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gcarroll
If you aren't paying equivilent to the So Cal Edison rates, you'll get no love from me on your pain.

2 years ago I averaged $150/month
1 year ago I averaged $180/month
now $350+/month

I'm with Greg. You're lucky you're not paying SoCal Edison rates.

 

[BonsaiNut]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8177089#post8177089 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gcarroll
If you aren't paying equivilent to the So Cal Edison rates, you'll get no love from me on your pain.

2 years ago I averaged $150/month
1 year ago I averaged $180/month
now $350+/month

That's about where we are exactly. We don't use A/C at all, we just unfortunately have a pool and a koi pond. Pool is on 4 hours per day - koi pond I keep cutting back until filter runs 6 hours per day and the water looks like pea soup. We are running consistently at $350 - $370 per month.

By the way, if we lived in Chicago, the same kWh usage would give us a $120 bill. In Seattle, it would be $110...

 

[BonsaiNut]

By the way, if you aren't familiar, you need to become VERY familiar with time-of-use meters. Southern California Edison will be switching over to them shortly and SDG&E have them in test currently. Basically the consumers will get screwed again - if you use electricity only at night you will pay your current rates. However if you use electricity during "peak hours" of 1:00 PM until 7:00 PM you will pay double (or more). Time of use could have been a boon for reefers, but now it looks like the utilities are setting it up so that you can't save money - you can only pay more if you aren't careful.

 

[Captain Quirk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8189400#post8189400 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BonsaiNut
By the way, if you aren't familiar, you need to become VERY familiar with time-of-use meters. Southern California Edison will be switching over to them shortly and SDG&E have them in test currently. Basically the consumers will get screwed again - if you use electricity only at night you will pay your current rates. However if you use electricity during "peak hours" of 1:00 PM until 7:00 PM you will pay double (or more). Time of use could have been a boon for reefers, but now it looks like the utilities are setting it up so that you can't save money - you can only pay more if you aren't careful.

Correction here.

The peak period will be 10 am to 6 pm. Anything during that time will be 62cPKWH. After and before it will be 22.

Which, if you haven't figured it out, is highway robbery.

I asked, and he said that IF I unplugged the freezer in the garage and made sure that EVERYTHING but the refrigerator wasn't running THEN I'd be able to save thirty bucks a month.

I'll say that again: THIRTY DOLLARS A MONTH!

This on a 2300KWH usage totalling almost 650.00.

Very magnanamous of them... I sure wish solar made more sense...

Thank goodness we have consumer protection agencies such as the PUC looking out for us. Otherwise... Oh, yeah. Right.

Nevermind....

 

[NicoleC]

How ironic that The Gas Co has a notice in my bill today they applied for a rate *reduction.*

 

[Captain Quirk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8189859#post8189859 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NicoleC
How ironic that The Gas Co has a notice in my bil ltoday they applied for a rate *reduction.*

Yeah, I heard about that. I think edison had the same insert, but it was like .003 percent or some such nonesense.

I find it funny how natural gas prices are coming down so far yet, even though NG is one of the major resources used in generating electricity, we have no hope of seeing any kind of comparable change in our bills.

I still think they're playing catch-up after buying Ken Lay all that beachfront property (or whatever - you get my drift).

Even not using the A/C we still get screwed. I... I just don't get it (I did the math and MAX my tank would take with lights on 24X7 would be 640KWH per month. So that ain't the culprit... I have a feeling when I find out what's sucking up all the juice I'll be taking a hammer to it...).

When I find the time, that is...

 

[jon575]

I sure do love my $.015 per kwt

 

[beefjerkygood]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8175470#post8175470 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ®eefer
I like my SDG&E bill. 150g reef, plasma, computers, etc....about $60/mo. Sometimes up to $90 with AC on.

I'm like Reefer, I don't get it... Im in a house with ac, all regular appliances, computers on 24/7, 45 reef tank w/ pc's and another 40G frag tank with 150 MH 8 hours a day, washer, dryer, upright freezer, fridge, etc... and my SCE bill is $90 this month.. down from $120 when it was really hot and had AC on half the day 2 months ago. My usage this month was only 652kWh for the month. I asked my neighbor what his bill was this month and it's almost double mine for the same square footage house and all lights go out at his house at 10Pm. I think the only difference is that I recently upgraded my fridge, extra freezer, AC, and washer to energy star equipement...initially paid a llittle more but i think I see the difference now b/c rates have gone up by my monthly bill is no different from last year.

 

[NicoleC]

.06%, to be exact. I am sure it will make a huge difference in my $5.88 gas bill.

I don't get the gargantuan bills, either. I hit $115 one month, I think, with the 100g reef, but that was the worst.

 

[Hurgoth]

And I was upset about Cox raising their High Speed Internet $2/mo today.

For the fish tank, I just kept mine plugged in to the garage during the summer which is connected to the landlords electricty

 

[GTR]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8189950#post8189950 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jon575
I sure do love my $.015 per kwt

Guess it helps to have friends in all the right places. :lol:

SteveU

 

[BonsaiNut]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8189906#post8189906 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kernelangus

I find it funny how natural gas prices are coming down so far yet, even though NG is one of the major resources used in generating electricity, we have no hope of seeing any kind of comparable change in our bills.

For SDG&E I can answer that question. SDG&E isn't an electricity utility any more - it's a GAS company. When we allowed the energy utilities to become deregulated, we allowed them to spin off their high-cost generation businesses (opening the door for the market manipulation that soon followed when the generators selectively reduced capacity to drive up prices), allowed them to diversify out of their core businesses, and allowed them to compete in markets outside of their traditional ones. Of course, the other side of the equation - consumer CHOICE - where we could change utilities if we felt we were getting screwed - never happened.

SDG&E won't lower rates unless someone forces them to. It's not like their market can go anywhere else. They're a cost-plus operation; if they keep their costs high enough they can always argue to the regulatory boards that they aren't making any money on electricity. Best place to work in the U.S. nowadays - either the government or a government-regulated utility. Can you say - full pensions, retiree medical, no-stress work environment, no lay-offs...

I could go on...