Rate Hike….. again……

[Fester]

Can you put a windmill up in city limits?

 

[LBrandt]

no

 

[701FishSlayer]

In this thread we are eating buckets of shit. There, you're all caught up.

 

[riverview]

eventually it going to get so expensive that personal generation is going to be cost effective. You dont have to buy from them. Just look at the amount of electricity is use per Houshold than in the 70s

 

[Smuscha]

The cost of electrical equipment has doubled if not tripled in the last couple years. Transformer prices have taken a huge jump along with poles and hardware. Employee wages have gone up and so has equipment cost. It all cost a lot of money to maintain. There’s a good amount of infrastructure that is well past its prime and needs upgrading, which isn’t cheap. And people want reliable service, which cost money to maintain.

This comes from someone who does linework, no I don’t get a discount on my bill, nor do I necessarily like the rate increases. But it cost a pile of money for companies to build and maintain.

 

[Trip McNeely]

In this thread we are eating buckets of shit. There, you're all caught up.

Every thread we eat buckets of shit…. What’s new some are barbecue some are Cajun. Pick your flavor. Isnt this site for entertainment? Some of you guys are way too damn serious all the time.

 

[Trip McNeely]

eventually it going to get so expensive that personal generation is going to be cost effective. You dont have to buy from them. Just look at the amount of electricity is use per Houshold than in the 70s

Right?! Im kicking the tires on ideas now. My electrical bill varies from 160-220 a month and I have a gas furnace. When I moved in 10ish years ago it was around 80.

 

[Fester]

The cost of electrical equipment has doubled if not tripled in the last couple years. Transformer prices have taken a huge jump along with poles and hardware. Employee wages have gone up and so has equipment cost. It all cost a lot of money to maintain. There’s a good amount of infrastructure that is well past its prime and needs upgrading, which isn’t cheap. And people want reliable service, which cost money to maintain.

This comes from someone who does linework, no I don’t get a discount on my bill, nor do I necessarily like the rate increases. But it cost a pile of money for companies to build and maintain.

Windmills are pretty pricey also....

 

[Fester]

Right?! Im kicking the tires on ideas now. My electrical bill varies from 160-220 a month and I have a gas furnace. When I moved in 10ish years ago it was around 80.

That's about where I am. Looked 6 years ago and bill was about half of what it is now.

 

[Fester]

I think if I was building new I would 100% look at completely off grid. PSC and these companies are pushing consumers that way anyways.

 

[Fester]

no

What if windmill was low to geound..let's say 12ft high or just above gutter line?

 

[Trip McNeely]

I think if I was building new I would 100% look at completely off grid. PSC and these companies are pushing consumers that way anyways.

Thank god all these new energy efficient appliances that are more expensive but save us oodles of money in the long run are not saving us oodles of money in the long run we are so fucking dumb. As a civilization and society we are down with the syndrome.

 

[1bigfokker]

You might want to try the monthly averaging for your electric and gas bill that has made a big difference in my spending. It doesn't hit you all at one time in the fall when your heat turns on and your lights go on.

 

[701FishSlayer]

Every thread we eat buckets of shit…. What’s new some are barbecue some are Cajun. Pick your flavor. Isnt this site for entertainment? Some of you guys are way too damn serious all the time.

I think I might be the least serious individual here. You see the bs I post?

 

[PrairieGhost]

Right?! Im kicking the tires on ideas now. My electrical bill varies from 160-220 a month and I have a gas furnace. When I moved in 10ish years ago it was around 80.

Electric with off peak rates cost me less than gas. About half actually. If power goes out the ceramic brick attached to my furnace will heat the house for a couple of days. If electrical is out longer I have generators, but I think I would back the camper up to the house and run off the 800w on the roof of it going to two 300A lithium batteries. If you start a generator your going to have company.

 

[woodduck30]

Got another yearly letter from capital electric stating another rate increase. I’ve lost track now but is this like the 3rd or 4th rate hike in that many years….. this shits getting old. Does anyone know when the subsidies and tax monies we are giving going to all this clean energy and alternative Energy and All the other projects around the state that Hoeven, Cramer, Burgem and Fedorchek keep pimping out are going to help with our energy bills? That would be fucking great. Who keeps approving these rate hikes year after year? Fedorchek? I swear our elected officials in ND are damn near worse than Democrats……

4 rate hikes in 2 years. When did they give away their building and buy a new one??

 

[Fester]

4 rate hikes in 2 years. When did they give away their building and buy a new one??

All politics and nothing to do with the consumer...exactly why the co2 pipeline wasn't released until after the elections..may have hurt someone getting elected.

 

[Trip McNeely]

I think I might be the least serious individual here. You see the bs I post?

Haha yes I know I wasn’t directing that at you. I am also fluent in sarcasm and fuckery so I speak your language.

 

[Trip McNeely]

4 rate hikes in 2 years. When did they give away their building and buy a new one??

Oddly enough it was right around a couple years ago

 

[Pheasant 54]

Trust me I have no dog in this fight. I tell my wife continuing how lucky we are to pay what we do for untilites . I am a boomer . With MDU and no complaints here . My issue is property taxes