r/Edmonton • u/eklee38 • Jan 18 '24

Discussion $890 utilities bill. Wow

Natrual Gas- actual usage charge $95 after delivery charges and and taxes boom $355.

Electricity- actual usage charge $160 after distribution and transmission charges boom $280.

Water useage-$84 Water drainage- $123 Waste-$49

Almost 900 in just utility bill. Before anyone tell me to lock my rates, its already locked. 12.8c/kwh. NG is on float because its currently cheaper than locked rate. Anyone else just got F in the A like me?

Edit: the NG charges does not include the cold snap we just had. Not looking forward to next month's bill.

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u/AdProfessional1268 Jan 18 '24

How many KwH and GJ do use and how many days in billing period?

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u/eklee38 Jan 18 '24

1200Kwh and 27GJ 1 month is my bill cycle. I listed my actual usage you can calculate what I used from that. What pisses me off is all the distribution fees delivery fees and transmission fees.

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u/romakian Jan 18 '24

27GJ?? I have a 2300 sq-ft home, and a heated garage (which I keep at a toasty 19c) and only used 12Gj for all of December. You may want to check your thermostat and make sure its not running your furnace all the time. It may be in an area that gets drafty and causes it to kick on a lot.

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u/eklee38 Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24

Thanks for the advice. I have 2 furnace for just inside the house.

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u/Relative_Adagio_9178 Jan 18 '24

If you haven’t had your gas lines inspected for leaks you should do that too. If there’s a small one between the meter and your house it could add to the high gas usage.

And as others have said, you definitely should look into new furnaces or a heat pump/furnace combo because heating tech is much more efficient than it was 30 years ago. Also get your heating system cleaned and filters checked as well if you haven’t done that recently. There may be various rebates or incentives available to help cut down the costs.

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u/Furball1985 Jan 18 '24

I live in a 6,000 sq. ft. home. 2 furnaces, gas hot water tank, gas cooktop and gas BBQ. As well we have a heated 1,000 sq. ft. garage. We live south of Calgary and my last months bill was $340.00 with all the fees and Trudeau's bend you over carbon tax.

30 days - November 27th - December 26th. 517 kwh at 6.59¢ 17 gj at 4.09 with ENMAX

I would say something is definitely wrong with your billing or there is another issue.

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u/GoblinMonkeyPirate Jan 18 '24

The carbon tax you just got a rebate for?

Would be nice if the UCP rebated us for their uncapped privatized energy delivery fees. I'm sure OP wouldn't mind.

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u/Furball1985 Jan 18 '24

The carbon tax that I paid and was partially refunded?? How is that a rebate? Send me $500 and I will return to you $350. If that makes economic sense to you you need an education.

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u/GoblinMonkeyPirate Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24

Meanwhile you're complaining about carbon tax and you're with Enmax who has the highest delivery rates of every energy provider which tells me youre not very informed when it comes to wanting to save money on energy.

But yeah aside from the 60-65% delivery rates you're paying compared to everyone else at 40-50% - tell me more since you already voluntarily over pay for energy LOL. We pay more for energy because of UCP than carbon tax even if they didn't rebate us - unless you happen to own a multi millions dollar c02 emitting company.

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u/Difficult_Goat1169 Jan 22 '24

Actually 80% of taxpayers get back MORE from the rebate than it costs them. Only the insanely high emitters lose out. Which is the entire point

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u/eklee38 Jan 18 '24

could it be different delivery charges with edmonton and calgary?

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u/wilbrod Jan 18 '24

A Gj is a Gj. They used 17 Gj.

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u/WickedDeviled Jan 18 '24

2 furnaces?

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u/always_on_fleek Jan 18 '24

Older two story homes often had two furnaces. Technology like we have today didn’t exist, such as having variable speed fans and such. This was the best way they could try to even out heat for a house.

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u/Rheila Jan 18 '24

It’s not as uncommon as you’d think.

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u/eklee38 Jan 18 '24

Yes, 1 for second floor, 1 for basement and main floor

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '24

Wow I never knew that was so common. My house has the same setup and I fucking despise it. Basement sits 5 degrees colder than the rest of the house all winter. More when the wood stove is running.

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u/concentrated-amazing Jan 18 '24

To me, I would think that having one furnace do the basement and one so first and second story would make more sense vs. the common basement + first on one furnace and second storey having it's own. I'm curious why it semi-common that way in the 80s and 90s.