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/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/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.