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Is that the base daily meter rate or monthly meter rate causing the extra $0.14/kwh cost? Sounds like your using very little power. Local grids are generally a
by simfree 4y ago
Is that the base daily meter rate or monthly meter rate causing the extra $0.14/kwh cost? Sounds like your using very little power.
Local grids are generally a fixed cost to maintain, if there was no base charge your neighbors would be subsidizing the maintenance of your connection to the grid. Separating fixed cost from marginal cost is the equitable solution in this case.
- Scoundreller 4y agoYes, CAD$17 for the 190kwh itself and CAD$39 in fixed charges. hot water is central and heat is effectively central, so low direct usage (so why meter) but not too far off the average for my building. There are about a hundred units each paying a separate fixed cost in one building. Anyone that thinks the cost/unit is the same to light up 100 detached homes is crazy. But that’s how the government regulated the billing (guess what kind of housing the decision makers live in?), which is why the Bermudan partnership jumped in to collect the distribution fees instead of letting the local utility collect that easy money.
- simfree 4y agoDamn, your using very little power. All power use under thr first 500kWh is discounted here in Seattle, your not even burning half that in a month. Sounds like you live in an apartment or condo tho with other heavy power draws like heat offloaded, which is rare these days. Most rental buildings here got rid of central heat and left each tenant to fend for themselves with inefficient baseboard electric heat.