Outrageous electricity bills - Calgary

[phreezee]

Little known fact, you can borrow Kill-a-watt's from your public library!

[Jay180reef]

Really! I'll have to 'check' that out

[BC564]

My last utilities bill was over $500 ....2100 square foot home......Power was $210...which is pretty normal........but my gas bill was $296....which is about double what it usually is....Now this covered from Dec 24th to Jan 24th...and I recall it being damn cold then.....and I know the little half likes to have the GAS fireplace on......but I was still shocked when I opened the bill......

[es355lucille]

Does anyone know if Epcor has a plan the same as Enmax? Right now I am paying ~11.65 cents per kWh with Epcor. I will have to check out Enmax as well..... thats a good savings! Thanks 24storm! Brad & Sharon.

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

[Albertan22]

Originally Posted by es355lucille

Does anyone know if Epcor has a plan the same as Enmax? Right now I am paying ~11.65 cents per kWh with Epcor. I will have to check out Enmax as well..... thats a good savings! Thanks 24storm! Brad & Sharon.

Be careful with the locked in rate plans. I know a few people who have signed up for them and their bills actually went up significantly. They tend to charge less for electricity, but get you on all the extra fees (which aren't locked in). If you look back through this thread you'll see that a lot of people on those plans are paying more in administration fees than electricity, which isn't the case with my Epcor bill