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>But my electricity price literally doubled. What supplier and location, out of curiosity?
by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>But my electricity price literally doubled.
What supplier and location, out of curiosity?
- post_break 4y agoThe open market of Texas, sigh.
- alostpuppy 4y agoOof.
- roflyear 4y ago
- lettergram 4y agohttps://www.texaselectricityratings.com/resources/historical-rates https://www.texaselectricityratings.com/resources/historical... Says the guy who can’t spend 2 seconds searching. Energy prices at least doubled in Texas. And was relatively stable 2016 through mid 2021
- roflyear 4y ago
- sangnoir 4y agoTexas energy pricing went up because of losses incurred in early 2021 during the infamous winterstorm that resulted in runaway prices. Most energy companies ran into losses, but the supervising authority approved loss recovery via price increases over a number of years.
- engineer_22 4y agoWhy are you making this personal?
- post_break 4y agoMy previous plan was 8c per kWh, it's now 16c per kWh. I live in Texas where you shop for rates. Before you're quick to crap on comments give a little benefit of the doubt.
- roflyear 4y ago
- krzyk 4y agoI wonder, is solar popular in Texas? From my vague memories it is quite sunny there.
- roflyear 4y ago[flagged]
- epistasis 4y agoThere's a big divide between politics rhetoric from political parties, and what's actually going on economically on the ground. Not only is Texas installing massive amounts of solar, wind, and battery storage, it's also mostly going into rural areas that are more politically conservative.
- tstrimple 4y agoI wonder if they get the same conservative "No Industrial Solar" propaganda that pervades rural Iowa. A little bit of searching seems to indicate rural opposition to renewables to be fairly common. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/01/27/backlash-against-renewables-surged-in-2021-with-31-big-wind-and-13-big-solar-projects-vetoed-across-us/?sh=407d7af3bb79 https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/01/27/backlash... Republican approval of renewable energy is also dropping year over year and is down 15% from 5 years ago. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americans-support-expanding-solar-and-wind-energy-but-republican-support-has-dropped/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americ... It seems there is a pretty clear divide in partisan and urban / rural support.
- butterguns 4y agoState of New Hampshire, 112% increase: https://www.puc.nh.gov/Regulatory/Orders/2022orders/Documents/26-645.pdf https://www.puc.nh.gov/Regulatory/Orders/2022orders/Document...
- post_break 4y agoJesus, I'm so glad I'm "only" paying like half of that price.
- metatranca 4y agoSimilar in Florida with FPL(the utility company) [0]. We are now paying more. These are the new rates [1]. [0] https://cleanenergy.org/blog/fpls-holiday-surprise-810-million-bill-increase-for-families-to-pay-for-fossil-gas/ https://cleanenergy.org/blog/fpls-holiday-surprise-810-milli... [1] https://www.fpl.com/content/dam/fplgp/us/en/rates/pdf/res-june-2022.pdf https://www.fpl.com/content/dam/fplgp/us/en/rates/pdf/res-ju...
- nobleach 4y agoI've heard from friends in the Gainesville area (GRU) that their bills have been in the 800 - 1100 range!!! Before I moved in 2010, I had a almost 500 bill and even that was just insane. When I look at the population of that area, I ask, "how many of your customers can actually afford rates like that? That's like a mortgage payment!"
- jusonchan81 4y agoAt those prices won’t investing in solar make sense? Most likely it will yield a massive savings?
- metatranca 4y agoJust yesterday I was checking Project Sunroof [0] to get an idea about how much I can save(based on my location this app says I have 1,634 hours of usable sunlight per year) and I am seriously thinking about installing Solar Panels. [0] https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/ https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/
- jdhn 4y agoI'd love to know what Duke is going to do. I have a 1950s block home with less than 3 inches of insulation in the attic (Duke Energy efficiency audit put it at a charitable R-11) and original windows that I was told by the HVAC person "leak like a sieve". Electric bill this month may hit $400.
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- meragrin_ 4y agoProbably any supplier using natural gas.