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| Thread ID: 132836 | 2013-05-23 00:46:00 | Electricity Prices | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 1342728 | 2013-05-23 06:44:00 | This is not true. We switched last year, apparently we are now saving over a hundred a month. Who did you switch "From....To"? PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1342729 | 2013-05-23 06:47:00 | I haqve ben reading the answers, thanks. I do recall a site that compared KWH & Line Charges. This is the one I cannot find. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1342730 | 2013-05-23 07:25:00 | This is not true . We switched last year, apparently we are now saving over a hundred a month . Have to agree there,:thumbs: We used to be with Empower ( rip off buggers) we queried the invoices and they said it is correct . We even got them to come and check the meters - all working / reading OK according to them . We went to "What's my number" - got a quote from Genius ( August 2011) which was recommended by the before mentioned site - and it came in a LOT lower . I asked to double check the quote - confirmed as being right - We then changed, got the smart meters installed and now our power bills are close to halved . After the first 3 bills I actually called Genius to double check - Yep all good and correct . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1342731 | 2013-05-23 08:56:00 | Our neighbour down here in Chch designed the smart meter and then went to China for the pre production run, only found out when I was sampling his home brew. Not the stuff from the supermarket he home brews the way a brewery does pretty cool setup too | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1342732 | 2013-05-23 23:49:00 | Trustpower have written in Letters to the Editor in our local paper to say that prices would not increase till a review in 2014. Fingers crossed. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1342733 | 2013-05-24 05:15:00 | I haqve ben reading the answers, thanks. I do recall a site that compared KWH & Line Charges. This is the one I cannot find. PJ Let me introduce to you THE LINES COMPANY www.thelinescompany.co.nz Seperate billing from you energy retailer in other words two bills! Available to all its customers across the King Country including Turangi. You think your electricity retailer charges are high! They have not anything on what your Lines bill is! Retailer price and units used you can control the Lines bill thats another story but is controllable if you understand how it works. Talk is this system being rolled out across the country one day! |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1342734 | 2013-05-24 06:11:00 | Who did you switch "From....To"? PJ Empower to Meridian. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1342735 | 2013-05-24 08:11:00 | The best way to save money on your electric bill is to turn everything off at the wall except your fridge and freezer, count how many items are on standby every night when you go to bed, that's where your money is going | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1342736 | 2013-05-24 09:11:00 | The best way to save money on your electric bill is to turn everything off at the wall except your fridge and freezer, count how many items are on standby every night when you go to bed, that's where your money is going Actually you will be shocked to learn that the biggest power usage is not items on stand by . Do you have an Electric Cooker? Well straight away several Kws of Electricity gone there, then theres the Hot Water Cylinder . Little gizmo called an OWL energy monitor . Really gives some insight into where your powers going . We use one to battle the Lines Company every winter that plus Gas Cooking and Waterback recycling the heat from the fire to the boiler makes a heck of a differance to our bill that halves over winter . Of course Electric Heating sucks a lot they dont call them 2kw heaters for nothing . As I write the owls reading 0 . 93kwh! What is on? Well this desktop, TV with video and DVD on standby, Laptop via mains, A fridege/freezer chuntering away, 4 energy saving 20kw bulbs . So really its how you monitor you use . Our goal is to keep our load this winter below 0 . 6kw on our lines bill and we can do that . off course that should translate into about 10 units per day . Our overnight reading struggles to hit 1kw for the night . |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1342737 | 2013-05-24 20:01:00 | Biggest problem I have is getting SWMBO to turn off the lights. Our house is lit up like a lighthouse for an hour each morning while she gets ready for work. With power saving bulbs it is not a lot of power but she also leaves the heat lamps on in the bathroom all that time. I pay the power bill so that tends to make me watch the useage constantly. Maybe I should hand her that privilege. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
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