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Shad0wSmurf t1_j91eugq wrote

Reply to comment by somethinlikeshieva in has anyone used city power & gas as electric supplier? by somethinlikeshieva

switch to anything else, papowerswitch.com, filter for monthly lowest to highest, put your average kwh usage at around 1.5 of your last months and search. look for anything longer than 6 months .

Rates change again on June 1st.

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falcons1583 t1_j93oso2 wrote

Do you really have to enter your power usage? I've always left it at the default and searched that way. I know the price wouldn't be correct but I always figured they'd be fine with selling you more juice. We use way more than the default which I believe is like 700 or something like that.

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Shad0wSmurf t1_j93pgw7 wrote

Well, it's not presented explicitly on the website, or the suppliers websites. But, they SOMETIMES have a higher incentive to cover the bigger portions of their wholesale purchases with the idea that, if offered lower rates, ABOVE average usage, normally equates to prompt payment because you are obviously using more than someone who is turning off the heat and may not be able to pay, and they need 6 of those types accounts at 700kwh to roughly equal what I do in 4,000kwh per month. so they can shave a few pennies off the cost to make sure that they have the recoupment of the purchase of power they are responsible for.

EDIT: From one of my service agreements.

Look at the scaling of price then look at the rate at top

EDIT 2:

  • 4,000Kwh X 10.9¢ = 436$

  • 4,000Kwh X .12608 = 504.32$

The extra cents add up the more you use, well it adds up to savings to constantly lower the rate dependent on your usage for a better cost savings for you

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somethinlikeshieva OP t1_j9304vm wrote

city power & gas is the only one up there lol they do have like 8 choices of rates though, i will heed youjr advice and see

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