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Posted by Bob G. on June 8, 2006, 9:25 am
In Frederick County the electric comes from Allegheny Power...BUT I
just take my final bill and devide that by the number of KWH I used..
.
I forget about all those fees etc... comes out to be about 6.5 cents
KWH...and I use about 4000 of those suckers a month....bill is about
250 bucks a month....
That Rate to compare never meant much to me..the only thing I compared
was how big a check I wrote evch month...
But I though the NEW rates from BGE took effect JULY 1st... NOT NOW !
Bob G. .
wrote:
>I was going to post this with questions about it, but after writing
>it, it seems only interesting to customers of BGE, namely, you two.
>
>Arthur, you may not be interested in this, but you should know that
>the 72% increase they keep talking about is only on the first line of
>the bill, so it's really about a 36% increase. (a little less than
>that for me last month) They said this, about being only on the first
>line of the bill, at the very start of this tsimmis, 2 or 3 months
>ago, but haven't said it since. But I'm sure it's true. Why doesn't
>the tv news, and maybe the radio and newspaper, do a better job? Why
>doesn't BGE point this out again, and again, and again?
>
>Now you guys (on the home repair newsgroup) have me reading my old
>electric bills, in Baltimore, Md, and I have one from 11 years ago
>next month. It doesn't give as much info as they do now, but it gives
>the meter reading -------
>the dates June 21 to July 23, 1985
>the units used 560
>the rate schedule, R
>the days used 32
>the fuel cost amount included, 8.81, which is not important
>and the net amount 46.24
>
>560 is the number of KwH, right?
>
>So 46.24/560 = 8.257 cents per KwH, right? Right.
>
>Isn't that more than I'm paying now, which it says is 4.82 cents/kwh.
>Well that number is misleading. It turns out I'm paying 0.156
>cents/kwh more now. That's not very much. It's about a 2 percent
>increase over 11 years. Why aren't they bragging about that?
>
>Wouldn't it make the July 1st increase more palatable?
>
>It seems to be 6.762 if one adds the per kwh charges together.
>But the Delivery Service Customer Charge has been extracted from the
>per kwh charge, and is now fixed, so that distorts things, compared to
>11 years ago, when everything was proportional to the amount used.
>
>If I take the whole bill,
>40.13 and divide by 477 Kwh, I get 8.413
>which is just a tiny bit more than 8.257
>that I was paying in 1995
>
>Isn't that interesting?
>
>If my bill were greater, the fixed 7.50 charge would be spread over
>more KwH, so my charge per KwH would be a little lower yet.
>
>Now if the prices haven't gone up in 11 years, why doesn't BGE brag
>about that?
>
>My last month's bill:
>Electric Details Non-Summer Rates in Effect
>Residential - Schedule R, same as before.
>Billing Period: Apr 18, 2006 - May 18, 2006
>Days Billed: 30
>Meter Read on May 18, Meter #G025460328
>Current Previous kWh
>Reading Reading Used
>16389 15912 477
>
>BGE Electruc Supply 477kWh x .04053000 19.33
>BGE Electric Delivery Service
> Customer Charge 7.50
>Distribution Charge 477kWh x .02634000 12.56
>State / Local Taxes & Surcharges:
>MD Universal Svc Prog .37
>State Surcharge 477kWh x .00013150 .07
>Franchise Tax 477kWh x .00062000 .30
>Total BGE Electric Amount $40.13
>
>The CTC (Competitive Transition Charge) is $0.0026 per kWh
>and is included in the Distribution Charge. [I don't know what this
>means, but it is too small to worry about.]
>
>BTW, my meter was changed about a year or two ago, so my usage must be
>accurate, since it's the same range over 11 years, and probably much
>longer. I have all my bills since 1972, but it would be a challenge
>to find them, even the ones in Baltimore, since 1986.
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