What are you paying per kWh? (Houston, Galveston: relocate, maintenance, apartments)

[greatryno]

Originally Posted by Wysiwyg

thats just wrong (really? you edited it already?)

No the price of $1600 is correct. The home is 4200sqft built in early2000. We have had other neighbors with the same builder have extremely high electric bills this summer. The past months bill was around $600. We did have some construction going on in the home during this month and did expect and increase. It was Dynowatt rate increase that caught us a lot of their customers by surprise. We are presently planning to add more insulation and radiant barrier to the attic. We also have a home office within the home and we are pretty much home at all time. Still waiting for the final bill from dynowatt, don't know what the rate will be this month.

[Wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by greatryno

No the price of $1600 is correct. The home is 4200sqft built in early2000. We have had other neighbors with the same builder have extremely high electric bills this summer. The past months bill was around $600. We did have some construction going on in the home during this month and did expect and increase. It was Dynowatt rate increase that caught us a lot of their customers by surprise. We are presently planning to add more insulation and radiant barrier to the attic. We also have a home office within the home and we are pretty much home at all time. Still waiting for the final bill from dynowatt, don't know what the rate will be this month.

well, you're the record holder. $1300 was the most shocking I've heard. I'm glad youre taking it well because mrs. $1300 didn't

[CanTex]

I switched to Gexa on a variable plan (CO Rewards) last December. I was previously with Direct Energy -- we moved into a new house, great deal for the first year through an offer they had with our builder, but then their rates started to go crazy.

Well, Gexa was OK for the first 4 or 5 months but look at how my rates have changed:

Jun 17.01
May 13.51
Apr 11.01
Mar 10.01
Feb 9.02
Jan 8.97
Dec 9.03

No doubt this is similar to anyone else on a variable plan right now.

I'm thinking about locking in on a fixed rate plan, but will probably wait out the next few months hoping those rates will come down before I commit (seasonal demand down, NG prices have trended down). This is all really a crap shoot...

[warpedhybrid232]

am on a $0.13 rate w/ spark energy right now. but that's probably a bit lower than current rates b.c. I had locked in my rate for a 3 yr. fixed contract around march 2008. however, i turned on electric w/ spark energy again for another property in jun and it was an awful 20cent rate b.c. it was just for a month.

[Houston456]

Yesterday a telemarketer from Reliant called me and OFFERED 24 months contract. First 12 months would be 20.2 and the BIGGEST DEAL is it will be 19.2 after 12 months. That crappy tried to push (ofcourse his commission would be really big for getting anyone to be ripped off) it very hard and I tried to politely trun him down. He started insisting, questioning and WHYing and he got a full dose of SDFDF $%%^%^%@FDGET$%@#$%#^YHJ%^&*^

[Jamesww]

14.2 cents KWH with reliant.

[Premont]

I've got 15.6 for 3 years with Reliant that has about 11 months left.

[Mom2Feebs]

Wouldn't y'all think that a commercial rate would be lower than 14.8 cents a kWh? That's our new rate, apparently. I was told by my management company that the "move" to the new provider wouldn't reflect on our statement until next month. Apparently we were not the only ones to blow a gasket over the 20 cent rate--people around here are livid. Part of our maintenance fee is to have commercial rates so that our electric is drastically lower than residential. Kinda hard to sell a condo touting commercial rates with such a high maintenance fee ($320 for our 3 bedroom) when really, it's not any different from what others are paying.

Very frustrating.

[professorsenator]

Around 8.5 cents per KWH...in Massachusetts.

I used to live in TX and the lack of state income tax was a real bonus. But it was shocking how much lots of other things cost in Texas (like energy, insurance, property taxes, sales tax). Yeah, yeah, I know: "you can't shovel sunshine." But in so many ways you folks in Texas are getting HOSED.

[CanTex]

Originally Posted by professorsenator

Around 8.5 cents per KWH...in Massachusetts.

I used to live in TX and the lack of state income tax was a real bonus. But it was shocking how much lots of other things cost in Texas (like energy, insurance, property taxes, sales tax). Yeah, yeah, I know: "you can't shovel sunshine." But in so many ways you folks in Texas are getting HOSED.

No kidding. You can imagine the bills with the electicity with the rates we're paying at the highest A/C demand time to cool these hugh Texas homes. But, at least my gas bill even in winter is usually not bad. Tell us what you're paying to heat your home in the north -- I know, I used to live there and it was sometimes as much as what I pay here to cool in the summer.