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TeknoBug

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It's possible that places where electricity is cheap show the biggest increase in prices for mining cards?

I'd like to know where elec is cheap, I was away from home for 4+ weeks with just about everything turned off during the 2-month billing period and was still billed $1248, highest I've ever been billed and I average $640-670 during the winter with heavy heat usage. I think the RCMP is investigating the power company (FortisBC) now anyways.
 
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I'd like to know where elec is cheap, I was away from home for 4+ weeks with just about everything turned off during the 2-month billing period and was still billed $1248, highest I've ever been billed and I average $640-670 during the winter with heavy heat usage. I think the RCMP is investigating the power company (FortisBC) now anyways.

Where do you live? My electric runs $80-100 summer/ $100-120 winter. Two people in the house, electric hot water. Do you have electric heat for the whole house or something?
 
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nwo

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I'd like to know where elec is cheap, I was away from home for 4+ weeks with just about everything turned off during the 2-month billing period and was still billed $1248, highest I've ever been billed and I average $640-670 during the winter with heavy heat usage. I think the RCMP is investigating the power company (FortisBC) now anyways.

Do you get actual monthly readings or are some of them estimates? I've had a couple of times where I had monthly estimates and by the time an actual reading took place I saw my bill quadruple because there was a spike in electricity usage during one of the estimated months.

It said it would ship in 3 weeks. I "bought" on Jan 22nd, and received it around Feb 18th. It was worth it to me :)

Not bad at all.
 

TeknoBug

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Where do you live? My electric runs $80-100 summer/ $100-120 winter. Two people in the house, electric hot water. Do you have electric heat for the whole house or something?

No gas and each room has its own heat register so I generally heat 2-3 rooms at a time instead of the whole house.

I'm in Canada, BC Hydro and Fortis has been hijacking bills lately and there's actually articles and news reports about it in the past year.
 

KingFatty

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No gas and each room has its own heat register so I generally heat 2-3 rooms at a time instead of the whole house.

I'm in Canada, BC Hydro and Fortis has been hijacking bills lately and there's actually articles and news reports about it in the past year.

You may want to consider being proactive here and calling them, and quote actual numbers read from your energy meter (I assume you have one that is accessible by you personally, or maybe your apartment manager would let you have access to read the meter).

Anyway, when something like this happened to me in the past, I read my meter at the beginning of the month and then again a few days later and saw how much the change was, and then extrapolated for the entire month. Then you can also extrapolate backward and determine what the number would have been on day X in the past. So you call them up and say that on day X the meter read blah, and on day Y it read blah, and so that's only Y-X KWHs, so I don't understand why I was charged so much? it doesn't add up so I need you to adjust my bill accordingly. The end point being you really need to call and ask them to adjust it. They typically will, especially if you are nice and reasonable and not mean about it.
 
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No gas and each room has its own heat register so I generally heat 2-3 rooms at a time instead of the whole house.

I'm in Canada, BC Hydro and Fortis has been hijacking bills lately and there's actually articles and news reports about it in the past year.

Wow is all I can say. Have you thought about converting to oil or even propane (which I can't stand but still sounds better)