Submitted by RustedMauss t3_109d3vs in newhampshire
Trying to get a serious answer for my own understanding. I know there's a cost to maintaining the system (storm damage, replacement equipment, staff, advertising, overhead etc.). What I mean is how my average power bills were ~$120/mon, this last couple years almost triple that but the kW/h has only gone up 10-20% (we installed mini-splits)? I guess I don't understand the huge increase other than just "high energy prices".
The poles, wires, employees, transmission lines, trimming trees, fixing down wires etc.
Eversource doesn’t make any power, they just deliver it. Hence the fee.
What Are Delivery Charges? Electricity delivery charges are the fees that you must pay the utility company for servicing and delivering power to you. The energy grid is managed by a utility company, which is also known as the Transmission and Distribution Utility (TDU) or Transportation Distribution Service Provider (TDSP). This company services and maintains all the equipment that facilitates electricity distribution from the generation source to the commercial or residential customers. Electricity delivery charges are also known as demand charges, pole, and wires charges, or transmission charges, and they are billed by the TDSP. The demand charges are made up of distribution, transmission, and transition charges. These fees are associated with the peak or maximum electricity demand on your electric meter. Put another way, delivery charges are determined by the highest volume of electricity you may require at any given point in time. This differentiates demand charges from what you pay for actual consumption. It’s very helpful to understand the difference between electricity demand and consumption. Demand is measured moment by moment in kilowatts, whereas consumption is about how much electricity you use in a given timespan measured in kilowatt-hours. For example, imagine a situation where the electricity demand in a certain area experiences a sudden surge. The utility company has to respond quickly to meet this peak demand, which will drive up the costs of distribution, transmission, and transition. Included in the total delivery charges, there are also some fixed components such as metering charges.
Well put, thank you.
Not sure if you're Eversource but I would think it's fairly standard, but YMMV:
TL;DR and oversimplified:
Poles and wires... Everything that gets the electricity from the power plant to your house
This is very interesting because I was going to make a post about budget billing, but I will tack my question onto this post.
So I added up my year of billing versus the amount that eversource will bill me every month based on my usage. My math comes out to a savings of approx $485.94 under their budget billing.
I saw other states with posts about this, but i did not see a post from the illustrious and strongly opinionated members of our New Hampshire Reddit.
Have any of you tried this? Are any of you using it right now?
(Ps screw CT for getting recreational weed yesterday)
Source: www.eversource.com/content/nh/residential/account-billing/manage-bill/budget-billing
So budget billing would save you $500 per year?
From my math, it would. I don't have an ac because I don't want that high bill, but if I can get an ac, keep it on blast most of the time I'm there and the bill stay flat... Then I don't see why not. I'm going to call tomorrow for more information.
this is probably unpopular to say but those folks were up in 40mph wind on Christmas Eve getting my power back online so I could watch family guy reruns and avoid my family, and I'm feeling like most of the value on my power bill is actually in the delivery fees...
Oh, I don’t disagree with that. This Christmas was brought to us not by Santa but by linemen out on Xmas Eve sloughing through massive storm damage. Its not for lack of gratefulness, mostly that our usage to cost wasn’t making sense year over year.
well they are being proactive with people going solar they split the bill into something that you have to pay even if you never use a watt of their energy.
In your case, compare usage, you must be using a ton more power then you used to. look up on tier page they typically have graphs to show you month to month year to year consumption numbers
The admin fees are for that and used to be $13. Delivery charges are based on usage.
You mention tiers. We’re on Eversource, but I can’t seem to find anything on that. We’ve definitely gone up in usage, though like I said at best maybe 20% year over year. Is this something that once you go up a “tier” you’re just automatically going to be paying a higher percentage? That’s what’s throwing me. I can understand more use = higher bill, what doesn’t make sense is more use = higher bill AND substantially higher delivery.
It's just a fee for maintaining the lines and shit.
The point of the delivery charge vs generation charge was to create competition to lower prices.
no
Chappy_Sinclair_ t1_j3xjmuy wrote
There's the cost of the power generation (everything that goes into generation) and there's the cost of getting it to you (everything else).