<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Funny that you resurrected this thread as it was top of mind with me. See, I had a bit of a shocker on my last Waterloo/North/Hydro bill for July, see --<br><table class="gmail-table gmail-table-striped gmail-rankingBox-light" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle">You used <span class="gmail-capricorn-text-md">924.85 kWh</span> more electricity compared to your previous bill. </td>
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Usage on your current bill dated
<span style="font-weight:bold">Jul 16, 2025</span>
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1,438.37 kWh
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Usage on your previous bill dated
<span style="font-weight:bold">Jun 16, 2025</span>
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513.52 kWh
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<td class="gmail-capricorn-text-md" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:middle">513.52 kWh</td>
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<div class="gmail-rankingTipBox">The average temperature in your current billing period was <span class="gmail-capricorn-text-md">23.8°C</span> compared with <span class="gmail-capricorn-text-md">22.8°C</span> in your previous billing period.
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</div></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">My bill is June was 98 bucks, my bill in July was $210! </div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">This July bill is for a billing period of JUN 16 - JUL 16 and I know there were some hot days.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I am not sure what's up with that as the house was empty for most of the billing period as my daughter and I travelled wherever. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The yard people use the house power for their weed whackers, but that is superlow use, relatively speaking.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">It's possible that the AC was set aggressively low in error, not sure, as we were rarely around. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Hmm.</div><br>Ron S.<br><br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 10:53\u202fAM Jason Locklin <<a href="mailto:locklin.jason@gmail.com">locklin.jason@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Envira (kwhydro) has a calculator on their site that retroactively calculates costs, and if I switched to TIER pricing, my bill would have been $6 more in June, and $3 lower in the last 30 days. Ultra-low is always significantly more expensive though. The difference between TIER and TOU doesn't seem to be priced different enough to really worry about -and this is with an EV and teenagers! -Jason<br>
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