In Australia my feed in has just been reduced from 5.5 to 4.5 c/kWh. I pay about 30 for power. And of course a supply charge even if I use zero. Cheap batteries will never ever ever be allowed to be developed and placed into production for society. Pay for your power and STFU is what they tell us
I wish we could do something similar in Australia, where I am we’re paying 78c/day fixed charge (normal domestic retail connection is around $1.10 to $1.30/day) and 28c/kWh flat rate. Our connection is a bulk supply agreement as we’re in a complex if multiple units. If my consumption was as much as yours I’d be broke very quickly. We use on average about 9kWh per day so we’re paying around $3/day all up for electricity. We’re now billed monthly.
Again the bulk if for charging electric cars. Gasoline is currently 1.85 per litter here. It has been as high as 2.30 per litter Son on average uses 60 litter a week in his car so yes it is expensive. Electric car is cheap to run.
Reasonable prices there in BC compared to the Netherlands! I pay 0,28 eurocent/kWh that’s roughly 0,42 dollars Canadian. Petrol is around €2/liter, so $3 canadian.
Do you drive a car? How much gas do you burn? I am operating 2 electric cars and they drive a bunch of miles every day. I can go 50 miles on about 1.50 in electricity. you are NOT doing that in a gas car.
@@12voltvids No I don't own a car I drive a motorbike and get around 4.4L/100km , I'm just saying it's its a massive bill that would be more than twice the price here, not to mention we pay in usd bout $7.50 a gallon for gas.
For me, the gas I use is for stove and oven, hot water tank, and central furnace. The electric I use is the dryer, AC, window AC, refrigerator, and the blower. In the winter, I use to keep my house stay warm is kerosene heater, surely it cost me to $6 per gallon times five is equal to $30, now with four to five jugs, it will be between $120 to $150 when purchasing the kerosene fuel to keep my house warm, and yes I am still using the blower to air circulate it while keeping my house warm. The only thing I hate is an electric heater, because it really can't keep my house warm while consuming up to 1,500 watts, and it is really not worth it for me to use the electric heater. On the other hand, LG&E will increase the bills in the winter for people who are using gas or electric while keeping their house, apartments (or the flat or the unit), trailers, condominiums, campers (such as RV or pull-behind camper) out buildings during the extreme cold temperatures at night. Surely, they are making a good amount of money to restore the power when the winter storm or ice storm hits. It does take a long time to fix the grid when the grid goes out. However, I now finally got a natural gas generator in case that power outage is to happen.
Nice! Good to see how things vary. If you were a residential customer living in South Australia your 30 day bill would work out roughly CAD $1,330. This includes 10% GST and doesn't take into account any other surcharges or rebates that you receive or pay that we don't here. These are the rates we pay (Rates inc 10% GST and are in AUD $ First 4000 kWh c/kWh 46.915 Thereafter c/kWh 46.915 Controlled load c/kWh 28.391 Solar Feed-in tariff c/kw 05.000 Supply charge c/day 113.883 The average is 45.3c/kWh, making it the most expensive state for electricity in Australia. This is due to the high reliance on renewable energy sources in SA, which can be more expensive to produce. (I suppose that's why I only get 5c for the excess power that I produce) ? Just putting it out there...
Same thing happened here. Our electricity when it was solely produced by the government corp was 0.06 per kwh. Then prior government decided to allow private power producers to set up wind and run of river. They found that it cost them much more to produce so they sweet talked the proper government to buy their power at a much higher rate then they were selling it to customers. Net result, all rates went up so we can buy this more expensive to produce power.
Im in Australia and gas is my killer, my winter bill for heating and hot water is upwards of $800 for 3 months, electric bill even in winter around $340
Yes they still send us a paper bill which is a good thing because j would never get it on email. I get so much spam that it would be lost. I have email addresses that I only use for business and they get spam too.
I pay 1390 EUR per year. I have to use a water flow heater for my hot water. I have upgraded my stove to induction and the oven to a much more efficient one, as well as the dishwasher to a much more efficient one as well. Hope to save a bit. The devices weren't that expensive either. And my old oven was worn out, the door retention of the dishwasher was also broken.
It was 326, but remember this, I am charging 2 cars, that is 2 cars I am not having to buy gas for. My son goes through 100 every 2 weeks for his car just to get to work. So 200 per month for his car. 326 to run 2 cars, and everything else. Now yes my cars are plug in hybrid, but they are not like all the current crop of plug in hybrids. All the current PHEV will burn gas. Acelerate up hill, engine comes on, go over certain speed engine comes on. That is how they all operate. I have Chevy Volts. The engine does not start, even until the battery is flat. My wife uses about 8 gallons of fuel over the course of about 1000 miles driving. A little more in the winter. My newer volt I got an entire year on 8 gallons of fuel. So even though my electric bill might overwhelm some, I am not buying gas, and I am not paying that carbon tax that everyone hates so much. My electricity is hydro electric, so very clean.
I have natural gas coming into my house , and I use it for my gas stove and oven , TankLESS water heater and in the winter one gas space heater in the living room ..... By going gas with those 3 items , I saved 300 dollars per month in the winter off my electric bill , electric heat is not at all efficient .... We cook a lot , so gas to the rescue again ....The TankLESS water heater is the snitz , only 350 bux for it at home depot , an electric 50 gallon was 500 I think .... You would save 400 to 500 hundred by using your gas heater ...
You are forgetting that I am fueling 2 electric cars from home. I don't go to the gas station. An electric heat pump is the most efficient way to heat period.
@@12voltvids I do know you have 2 e-cars , Yes a heat pump is the most efficient way to heat out of all the different electric style heating systems.... I was raised on gas and electric stoves and heaters ..... My dad was a home builder for years, then he went to all electric in one of our homes we built cause SLEMCO offered a discount for all electric homes ..... We sold that house a little over a year of living in it .... A normal winter was making the bill go up to 175 .00 a month , that was in 1975 .... A lot of folks got into the all electric deal , and got out of it after just 1 winter ..... I'm in Southwest Louisiana so it does make a difference because our natural gas is so cheap here...... We have over a quarter millions gas and oil wells on land and in the gulf .... Take Care Mon Ami ...
@@12voltvids efficient != most cost effective though. You have to look at cost / unit of energy, and gas comes out the cheapest every time. Yes, I understand that a heat pump can get say 3 units of heat out for 1 unit of electrical input, but when that unit of electrical input costs 5x what that same unit of input of gas costs, while it's efficient, it's not cost effective. It doesn't help that they use different units of energy for gas and electric, but if you convert it all to dollars per joule (or kj or mj), the math becomes a lot easier and clearer.
Gas is cheap, but all the fees add up real quick. Back When it was BC gas our natural gas was very reasonable however a few years ago the previous provincial government decided that the province should not be selling gas to customers directly because it's come oddy it should be traded at market value.. so they sold off the gas division. First to terasen gas and then they sold to fortis, a big American profit driven company so now we get hosed. Cost of gas is 2.30 per gigajoule. We pay. 42 per GJ for storage and 6.53 per GJ for delivery. Another 3.98 in carbon tax, 0.4% clean energy levy (tax) and a basic 12.65 connection charge. The. 5% gst on top of all of it. 0.22 in gas balloons to 14.71. Back earlier in the year when the fireplace was in use the bill was 41.10. Out of that 4.68 cost of gas. 14.09 to deliver it, 5.51 in carbon tax. 1.96 gst. All the taxes and fees make gas far more expensive. No comparison.
@@gorak9000 We pay many taxes on our gas supply in BC. They are trying to push everyone over to electric. Then supply and demand will push up electricity. It will be interesting to see what happens here when our water supply goes down to power our Hydro electric dams.
Your first electric bill for that amount of kilowatts would probably cost me about that much here in IL in the states. Fortunately, in the spring and summer, I use 800-1100 kwh's a month. ($220 to $280 a month) A lot more in the winter, because of whole house radiant heat. About 300-500 a month. No gas, all electric. Also, no central air. Just a window A/C in the living room. And a small one in my bedroom.
Wow that is a lot of juice! Is it your electric vehicles that are consuming that much? I'm down in the states in a three person household with an electric water heater and oven but no electric vehicles. Also just a few window AC units that get used from time to time except for the kids that run all the time and a couple of gaming computers plus the TV that seems to be on all the time. Last month we only used 621 KW at a tune of 132$ US.
Yes the EVs take a fair bit because they are driven a lot. Its still only about 1/5 the cost of running gas. My sons car, which gets about 20MPG costs him 80 a week in gas just to get to work and back 5 days a week. That, for those that don't do math is 320 a month in gas, never mind oil and other maintenance that needs to be done. I am running 2EV, and a 2500 sq ft house for what he pays in gasoline for 1 car. So the electric bill might seem high, but when you factor in that that is basically fueling 2 cars its cheap. Also remember I do have a hot tub out back so that draws power too.
I guess I am not the norm. My latest Fortis bill was $38.71 for 2 months for my water heater. My Hydro bill was $80.31 for the last 2 months for a Family of 4 in a house.
He burns through power like it's going out of style. I use somewhere between 850 and 1150 kwh / month on average (over the last year), and I have too many computers and stuff running 24/7. He's using approx 3000 kwh / month - tripple what I am. But I don't have a hot tub, my heat is gas (so the electric bill doesn't vary a lot between heating and not) and I try to use the AC as little as possible. It's a lot cheaper to just wait until night time, open your windows, and use fans to suck the cool air in than it is to pay to pump heat around during the hottest part of the day. When I do use AC, it's only when it's over 30C in the house, and I cool it to 24C or 25C only.
Remember 2 electric cars that between the 2 use about 25kwh per day just to charge the cars. I dont have to spend 80 bucks a week on gas like ny son does. Hot tub sucks up about 40 to 50 a month. I use my gas fireplace a fair bit in the winter.
Looked at time of use here, the supply charge negates my savings. Added batteries i bought cheap to my solar, went from exporting 15kwh/day and importing 5kwh/day to maybe importing 3kwh/week. Se Qld Australia
The on peak surcharge is part of the time of day billing option. For 5 hours a day the price goes up. For 8 hours at night the price goes down. Therefore if you shift your high usage activities, like running spa heaters, charging cars, ect out of that 5 hour peak window and into the overnight window you get a discount.
help, i have a funai VIP8000K VCR that keeps shutting down after 15 seconds of play, i have changed the belts and cleaned mode switch, what else should i check?
Probably need to clean the rotation sensor and affiliated light pipe would be my guess for your next step. What you did already really shouldn't have an affect on your problem.
@@aronslegogbcs1057 Must have been a deeper problem then. At least you gave it your best, most would have thrown it out already. All you can do is try. Don't give up! 👍
Omg your electric is so cheap over there! It must be a utopia of power. In the UK the unit cost per kWh of electricity on a bog standard tariff is 26p ($0.46 CAD), and that's after it went down after being about twice that for a year or so! Gas is away cheaper at 7p per kWh ($0.12 CAD) And they keep telling us to get heat pumps to save money 😂 Your average daily is $10 ish, mine is about $3.55, thats about 4kwh a day in my house which I usually dont go higher than that. The biggest energy hog is the PC and the surround sound system, off most of the day. It helps im a single person and a small household who is out most of the week at work. During that time everything is switched off at the wall apart from the router and the tv recorders and alarm clock, oh and obviously the fridge is allowed to run. Looking at my actual statement for 1/4/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY) till 15/06/2024 I used 351.5 kwh of electricity at 24p a day for a bill of £84.53 plus £36.13 standing charge (76 days daily connection fee) and £6.03 VAT for a total of £126.69 ($224.84 CAD). Ignoring the extra 10 or so days on my bill, if I somehow used the amount of kwh you did it would have cost me £1428 ($2534 CAD)!
I take that they charge only for the energy, and not also for "transferring" the electrocity to your place, like here in Finland. We here can choose the company that sells the energy, but not the transferring company, who owns the power grid in the area. Still, majority of the electricity bill is the transferring part, which has expensive basic fee, and includes also charge for the amount of power transferred. Smells like a scam and rip off to me. It's so fake system to pretend that you can choose cheapest electrical billing system, when it's only a minor part from the whole bill, but can't choose the most expensive part of it. Currently I have "stock market" electicity billing system for the energy. (c = Euro cent) No basic fee until October this year (a campaign offer), and 0,59c/kWh marginal (24% VAT included). Right now when I do this post, stock market price is 2,55 c/kWh plus 0,59 c/kWh marginal = 3,14 c/kWh. As for the "transfer" part: Basic fee of 2€ / month, plus transfer fee of 3,170 c/kWh, plus maintenance security fee of 0,016 c/kWh and energy tax of 2,778 c/kWh, so transferring one kWh cost to me total of 5,964c/kWh, and the energy added to that brings it to total of 9,104 c/kWh.
Have you seen whats happening in Australia? Everyone did that and now the power company cant handle the excess. They want to charge to store the extra energy.
@@chinanorthairguns Spend 40,000 to save 100 bucks a month on my hydro bill in the summer under full sun. Ya that makes sense... NOT! I did the numbers and it makes no sense at all. Where I am we get plenty of sun, its the sunshine capital of the province right along the US border. Still, for what I use a 30 KW setup would reduce my consumption about 1/3
In Australia my feed in has just been reduced from 5.5 to 4.5 c/kWh. I pay about 30 for power. And of course a supply charge even if I use zero. Cheap batteries will never ever ever be allowed to be developed and placed into production for society. Pay for your power and STFU is what they tell us
Be glad your not paying that bill here in the UK where electricity is about 0.36 Canadian Dollars a current exchange rates!
You get it cheaper than I do, EON are 26p per kWh ($0.46 CAD)
@@dlarge6502 we're paying 20p, that's EON's standard variable tariff.
I wish we could do something similar in Australia, where I am we’re paying 78c/day fixed charge (normal domestic retail connection is around $1.10 to $1.30/day) and 28c/kWh flat rate. Our connection is a bulk supply agreement as we’re in a complex if multiple units. If my consumption was as much as yours I’d be broke very quickly. We use on average about 9kWh per day so we’re paying around $3/day all up for electricity. We’re now billed monthly.
Again the bulk if for charging electric cars. Gasoline is currently 1.85 per litter here. It has been as high as 2.30 per litter
Son on average uses 60 litter a week in his car so yes it is expensive. Electric car is cheap to run.
@@12voltvids Why don't you lend your ev to your son, or time to buy him one?
Reasonable prices there in BC compared to the Netherlands!
I pay 0,28 eurocent/kWh that’s roughly 0,42 dollars Canadian.
Petrol is around €2/liter, so $3 canadian.
I'm paying 27cent usd per unit here in Ireland , I can't fathom such energy usage....
Do you drive a car? How much gas do you burn? I am operating 2 electric cars and they drive a bunch of miles every day. I can go 50 miles on about 1.50 in electricity. you are NOT doing that in a gas car.
@@12voltvids No I don't own a car I drive a motorbike and get around 4.4L/100km , I'm just saying it's its a massive bill that would be more than twice the price here, not to mention we pay in usd bout $7.50 a gallon for gas.
bro, Europoor here, 0.35 eur / kwh is a good price xD can't even DREAM about 0.15
For me, the gas I use is for stove and oven, hot water tank, and central furnace. The electric I use is the dryer, AC, window AC, refrigerator, and the blower. In the winter, I use to keep my house stay warm is kerosene heater, surely it cost me to $6 per gallon times five is equal to $30, now with four to five jugs, it will be between $120 to $150 when purchasing the kerosene fuel to keep my house warm, and yes I am still using the blower to air circulate it while keeping my house warm. The only thing I hate is an electric heater, because it really can't keep my house warm while consuming up to 1,500 watts, and it is really not worth it for me to use the electric heater.
On the other hand, LG&E will increase the bills in the winter for people who are using gas or electric while keeping their house, apartments (or the flat or the unit), trailers, condominiums, campers (such as RV or pull-behind camper) out buildings during the extreme cold temperatures at night. Surely, they are making a good amount of money to restore the power when the winter storm or ice storm hits. It does take a long time to fix the grid when the grid goes out. However, I now finally got a natural gas generator in case that power outage is to happen.
Nice! Good to see how things vary. If you were a residential customer living in South Australia your 30 day bill would work out roughly CAD $1,330. This includes 10% GST and doesn't take into account any other surcharges or rebates that you receive or pay that we don't here. These are the rates we pay (Rates inc 10% GST and are in AUD $
First 4000 kWh c/kWh 46.915
Thereafter c/kWh 46.915
Controlled load c/kWh 28.391
Solar Feed-in tariff c/kw 05.000
Supply charge c/day 113.883
The average is 45.3c/kWh, making it the most expensive state for electricity in Australia. This is due to the high reliance on renewable energy sources in SA, which can be more expensive to produce. (I suppose that's why I only get 5c for the excess power that I produce) ? Just putting it out there...
Same thing happened here. Our electricity when it was solely produced by the government corp was 0.06 per kwh. Then prior government decided to allow private power producers to set up wind and run of river. They found that it cost them much more to produce so they sweet talked the proper government to buy their power at a much higher rate then they were selling it to customers. Net result, all rates went up so we can buy this more expensive to produce power.
Im in Australia and gas is my killer, my winter bill for heating and hot water is upwards of $800 for 3 months, electric bill even in winter around $340
“Hot water heater”: paraphrasing George Carlin, why? :)
You guys still get your bill on actual paper? And every month even? I pay a monthly advance and get the final bill at the end of the year, via email.
Yes they still send us a paper bill which is a good thing because j would never get it on email. I get so much spam that it would be lost. I have email addresses that I only use for business and they get spam too.
I pay 1390 EUR per year. I have to use a water flow heater for my hot water. I have upgraded my stove to induction and the oven to a much more efficient one, as well as the dishwasher to a much more efficient one as well. Hope to save a bit. The devices weren't that expensive either. And my old oven was worn out, the door retention of the dishwasher was also broken.
That’s BC prices for yea so per month your electric bill is roughly 390 a month. So you’re saving about 70 dollars a month.
It was 326, but remember this, I am charging 2 cars, that is 2 cars I am not having to buy gas for. My son goes through 100 every 2 weeks for his car just to get to work. So 200 per month for his car. 326 to run 2 cars, and everything else. Now yes my cars are plug in hybrid, but they are not like all the current crop of plug in hybrids. All the current PHEV will burn gas. Acelerate up hill, engine comes on, go over certain speed engine comes on. That is how they all operate. I have Chevy Volts. The engine does not start, even until the battery is flat. My wife uses about 8 gallons of fuel over the course of about 1000 miles driving. A little more in the winter. My newer volt I got an entire year on 8 gallons of fuel. So even though my electric bill might overwhelm some, I am not buying gas, and I am not paying that carbon tax that everyone hates so much. My electricity is hydro electric, so very clean.
I have natural gas coming into my house , and I use it for my gas stove and oven , TankLESS water heater and in the winter one gas space heater in the living room ..... By going gas with those 3 items , I saved 300 dollars per month in the winter off my electric bill , electric heat is not at all efficient .... We cook a lot , so gas to the rescue again ....The TankLESS water heater is the snitz , only 350 bux for it at home depot , an electric 50 gallon was 500 I think .... You would save 400 to 500 hundred by using your gas heater ...
You are forgetting that I am fueling 2 electric cars from home. I don't go to the gas station. An electric heat pump is the most efficient way to heat period.
@@12voltvids I do know you have 2 e-cars , Yes a heat pump is the most efficient way to heat out of all the different electric style heating systems.... I was raised on gas and electric stoves and heaters ..... My dad was a home builder for years, then he went to all electric in one of our homes we built cause SLEMCO offered a discount for all electric homes ..... We sold that house a little over a year of living in it .... A normal winter was making the bill go up to 175 .00 a month , that was in 1975 .... A lot of folks got into the all electric deal , and got out of it after just 1 winter ..... I'm in Southwest Louisiana so it does make a difference because our natural gas is so cheap here...... We have over a quarter millions gas and oil wells on land and in the gulf .... Take Care Mon Ami ...
@@12voltvids efficient != most cost effective though. You have to look at cost / unit of energy, and gas comes out the cheapest every time. Yes, I understand that a heat pump can get say 3 units of heat out for 1 unit of electrical input, but when that unit of electrical input costs 5x what that same unit of input of gas costs, while it's efficient, it's not cost effective. It doesn't help that they use different units of energy for gas and electric, but if you convert it all to dollars per joule (or kj or mj), the math becomes a lot easier and clearer.
Gas is cheap, but all the fees add up real quick. Back When it was BC gas our natural gas was very reasonable however a few years ago the previous provincial government decided that the province should not be selling gas to customers directly because it's come oddy it should be traded at market value.. so they sold off the gas division. First to terasen gas and then they sold to fortis, a big American profit driven company so now we get hosed. Cost of gas is 2.30 per gigajoule.
We pay. 42 per GJ for storage and 6.53 per GJ for delivery. Another 3.98 in carbon tax, 0.4% clean energy levy (tax) and a basic 12.65 connection charge. The. 5% gst on top of all of it. 0.22 in gas balloons to 14.71. Back earlier in the year when the fireplace was in use the bill was 41.10. Out of that 4.68 cost of gas. 14.09 to deliver it, 5.51 in carbon tax. 1.96 gst. All the taxes and fees make gas far more expensive. No comparison.
@@gorak9000 We pay many taxes on our gas supply in BC. They are trying to push everyone over to electric. Then supply and demand will push up electricity. It will be interesting to see what happens here when our water supply goes down to power our Hydro electric dams.
Your first electric bill for that amount of kilowatts would probably cost me about that much here in IL in the states. Fortunately, in the spring and summer, I use 800-1100 kwh's a month. ($220 to $280 a month) A lot more in the winter, because of whole house radiant heat. About 300-500 a month.
No gas, all electric.
Also, no central air. Just a window A/C in the living room. And a small one in my bedroom.
In my case: 220 kW a month. Mobile A/C in the living room. (NL, Europe) Total energy cost a month (including gas) €85,- Euro, being: $92,- USD
Wow that is a lot of juice! Is it your electric vehicles that are consuming that much? I'm down in the states in a three person household with an electric water heater and oven but no electric vehicles. Also just a few window AC units that get used from time to time except for the kids that run all the time and a couple of gaming computers plus the TV that seems to be on all the time. Last month we only used 621 KW at a tune of 132$ US.
Yes the EVs take a fair bit because they are driven a lot. Its still only about 1/5 the cost of running gas. My sons car, which gets about 20MPG costs him 80 a week in gas just to get to work and back 5 days a week. That, for those that don't do math is 320 a month in gas, never mind oil and other maintenance that needs to be done. I am running 2EV, and a 2500 sq ft house for what he pays in gasoline for 1 car. So the electric bill might seem high, but when you factor in that that is basically fueling 2 cars its cheap. Also remember I do have a hot tub out back so that draws power too.
I guess I am not the norm. My latest Fortis bill was $38.71 for 2 months for my water heater. My Hydro bill was $80.31 for the last 2 months for a Family of 4 in a house.
He burns through power like it's going out of style. I use somewhere between 850 and 1150 kwh / month on average (over the last year), and I have too many computers and stuff running 24/7. He's using approx 3000 kwh / month - tripple what I am. But I don't have a hot tub, my heat is gas (so the electric bill doesn't vary a lot between heating and not) and I try to use the AC as little as possible. It's a lot cheaper to just wait until night time, open your windows, and use fans to suck the cool air in than it is to pay to pump heat around during the hottest part of the day. When I do use AC, it's only when it's over 30C in the house, and I cool it to 24C or 25C only.
Remember 2 electric cars that between the 2 use about 25kwh per day just to charge the cars. I dont have to spend 80 bucks a week on gas like ny son does. Hot tub sucks up about 40 to 50 a month. I use my gas fireplace a fair bit in the winter.
Looked at time of use here, the supply charge negates my savings. Added batteries i bought cheap to my solar, went from exporting 15kwh/day and importing 5kwh/day to maybe importing 3kwh/week.
Se Qld Australia
I use 90 a day 130 if the ac is going. The cost of solar to generate that over 250 000.
@@12voltvids holy crap that's a lot. Your power is cheap.
We're $1/day supply and 28c/kwh if we're lucky
"Electricity affordability credit" ... would be funny if it weren't so utterly contemptuous!
(See, e.g., "On-peak surcharge")
The on peak surcharge is part of the time of day billing option. For 5 hours a day the price goes up. For 8 hours at night the price goes down. Therefore if you shift your high usage activities, like running spa heaters, charging cars, ect out of that 5 hour peak window and into the overnight window you get a discount.
help, i have a funai VIP8000K VCR that keeps shutting down after 15 seconds of play, i have changed the belts and cleaned mode switch, what else should i check?
Probably need to clean the rotation sensor and affiliated light pipe would be my guess for your next step. What you did already really shouldn't have an affect on your problem.
@@randyr.parker2698 well i did that, and sadly its still not fixed, its now been parted out
@@aronslegogbcs1057 Must have been a deeper problem then. At least you gave it your best, most would have thrown it out already. All you can do is try. Don't give up! 👍
Omg your electric is so cheap over there! It must be a utopia of power.
In the UK the unit cost per kWh of electricity on a bog standard tariff is 26p ($0.46 CAD), and that's after it went down after being about twice that for a year or so!
Gas is away cheaper at 7p per kWh ($0.12 CAD)
And they keep telling us to get heat pumps to save money 😂
Your average daily is $10 ish, mine is about $3.55, thats about 4kwh a day in my house which I usually dont go higher than that.
The biggest energy hog is the PC and the surround sound system, off most of the day.
It helps im a single person and a small household who is out most of the week at work. During that time everything is switched off at the wall apart from the router and the tv recorders and alarm clock, oh and obviously the fridge is allowed to run.
Looking at my actual statement for 1/4/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY) till 15/06/2024 I used 351.5 kwh of electricity at 24p a day for a bill of £84.53 plus £36.13 standing charge (76 days daily connection fee) and £6.03 VAT for a total of £126.69 ($224.84 CAD).
Ignoring the extra 10 or so days on my bill, if I somehow used the amount of kwh you did it would have cost me £1428 ($2534 CAD)!
So you fixed the electrics and not a screwdriver or soldering iron in sight🙂
There are several on the bench out of camera view
For those who don't know, Dave is in Canada, so he's talking about Canadian dollars
I take that they charge only for the energy, and not also for "transferring" the electrocity to your place, like here in Finland. We here can choose the company that sells the energy, but not the transferring company, who owns the power grid in the area. Still, majority of the electricity bill is the transferring part, which has expensive basic fee, and includes also charge for the amount of power transferred.
Smells like a scam and rip off to me. It's so fake system to pretend that you can choose cheapest electrical billing system, when it's only a minor part from the whole bill, but can't choose the most expensive part of it.
Currently I have "stock market" electicity billing system for the energy. (c = Euro cent)
No basic fee until October this year (a campaign offer), and 0,59c/kWh marginal (24% VAT included). Right now when I do this post, stock market price is 2,55 c/kWh plus 0,59 c/kWh marginal = 3,14 c/kWh.
As for the "transfer" part:
Basic fee of 2€ / month, plus transfer fee of 3,170 c/kWh, plus maintenance security fee of 0,016 c/kWh and energy tax of 2,778 c/kWh, so transferring one kWh cost to me total of 5,964c/kWh, and the energy added to that brings it to total of 9,104 c/kWh.
The grid and generation is owned by the government. Crown corporation. We pay .22 a day to be connected and just the energy cost.
Why don't you put solar panels in & power company can pay you as they do it in the US.
BC has the lowest number of sunny days compared to other cities in Canada. Solar does not work that well in Canada.
Have you seen whats happening in Australia? Everyone did that and now the power company cant handle the excess. They want to charge to store the extra energy.
@@chinanorthairguns Spend 40,000 to save 100 bucks a month on my hydro bill in the summer under full sun. Ya that makes sense... NOT! I did the numbers and it makes no sense at all.
Where I am we get plenty of sun, its the sunshine capital of the province right along the US border. Still, for what I use a 30 KW setup would reduce my consumption about 1/3
@@chinanorthairguns My neighbour put in solar and he generates enough to basically charge his tesla. For what it cost however it was not worth it.