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Old 01-23-2023, 11:56 AM
 
Location: Orange County, CA USA
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Recently moved to Azle, TX, and have received my first "normal" electric bill. $600.00!! For one month!!! This includes TDU charges. I cannot believe this!! Can this be true? Seven thousand dollars a year?!?!
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Old 01-23-2023, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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How old is the house?
How large is the house?
What do you keep your thermostat set on?

Read the bill carefully to make sure there aren't added fees, such as "new service fee," etc.
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Old 01-23-2023, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Orange County, CA USA
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How old is the house?
How large is the house?
What do you keep your thermostat set on?

Read the bill carefully to make sure there aren't added fees, such as "new service fee," etc.

The house was built in the early '80s and is a three bedroom, one den, 2 1/2 bath, attached garage ranch style. we usually keep the temp between 68 and 72 degrees. There is a charge called a "Gross Receipts Reimb" which seems like a reimbursement of some kind, but it shown in the Electricity Charges and Taxes section of the itemized bill. Then there is the TDU charges and taxes, the larges of which is 115 bucks for "delivery" charge and other minor charges totalling 120 dollars.
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Old 01-23-2023, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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It sounds like the bulk of your bill is actual usage. How old is your HVAC? How much insulation do you have in your attic? Those two things make a huge difference.
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Old 01-24-2023, 08:03 AM
 
Location: Orange County, CA USA
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I have two previous bills that were about 250/mo., running AC 24/7. There are two AC units, one new, the other refurbished. This is a modern house, not an older home. The heat couldn't be that much more, could it? That 600 bucks has to be an error, but I can't get a human being on the line thru Gexa's customer service number and there doesn't appear to be a dispute mechanism either. I have contacted my HOA, but not sure what they can do. I'm considering contacting my city council.
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Old 01-24-2023, 09:02 AM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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Your city council and HOA have nothing to do with public utility bills. You can escalate to the Texas Public Utility Commission, but you need to do your due diligence first. I would keep trying to get a human with Gexa during business hours.

Look at your per kiilowatt hour charges. Perhaps your plan expired and you were placed on a higher rate plan?
Have an HVAC company come out and look at your units. Maybe something is wrong with one of them that is causing it to use more electricity. Have you changed your furnace filters recently?
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Old 01-24-2023, 01:14 PM
 
Location: TEXAS
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Recently moved to Azle, TX, and have received my first "normal" electric bill. $600.00!! For one month!!! This includes TDU charges. I cannot believe this!! Can this be true? Seven thousand dollars a year?!?!
If you are all-electric and have heat-pumps, make sure units are running in 'heat-pump' mode in winter (outside fan/compressor is running while heating).
If heating on with 'electric-resistive-strips' - electric use/cost can be 3X to 4X normal.

Make sure thermostat is not manually set on EM, and once again, confirm outside units are running.
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Old 01-24-2023, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Orange County, CA USA
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If you are all-electric and have heat-pumps, make sure units are running in 'heat-pump' mode in winter (outside fan/compressor is running while heating).
If heating on with 'electric-resistive-strips' - electric use/cost can be 3X to 4X normal.

Make sure thermostat is not manually set on EM, and once again, confirm outside units are running.



Thanks! This sounds like it may be the problem. I am totally new at this electric heat business. In SoCal it was gas.
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Old 01-24-2023, 04:16 PM
 
Location: TEXAS
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Thanks! This sounds like it may be the problem. I am totally new at this electric heat business. In SoCal it was gas.
I think in this last billing cycle we had several really cold nights, one getting down into single digits;
If yours was running on heat-strip-only thru this a $250 heating bill could easily have become $500 or more, especially if you had the thermostat set at 72 degrees while it was 10 degrees outside on heat-strips. . .

Do you have a website login for your Gexa account, where you can see/track your daily KW/H usage, especially if the charts also simultaneously show outside temperatures?
Checking that chart, it should be easy to see where usage dramatically jumps up on severe temp drops.
Also, standard resistive-electric water-heaters will also use quite a bit more kh/h as water-line temps drop.
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Old 01-24-2023, 04:24 PM
 
Location: Orange County, CA USA
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What is EM?
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