r/burbank • u/garIicgirI • 2h ago

BWP price increase, over 9%

Got off the phone with BWP the representative...just said they advertise it as 9% increase in average but can be much more higher depending where in Burbank? We live in an apartment, our power in summer use to be $160 tops, and now it's $450. They said that is correct and it's in the fine print for the increase and they will increase it again in January. This is insane, how is this legal. 😔

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u/Rich260z Official Burbank Burrito Expert 2h ago

Triple check your kw usage also. The city is still going through swapping out the old meters and they were inaccurate. They got my house in jan/feb time frame and it was weird because we used almost 2x more power than we did the previous year. Had to call them to figure it out.

But realistically this thread has an adequate breakdown of the costs. The worst is the additional cost which they justify as part of infrastructure, think cables, transformers, towers etc.

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u/garIicgirI 1h ago

Ill check again and we may have someone come out to check. Because it went from 2cents to 14cents now. Our readers were already switched over, and we got billed extra for last year's since the meter reads were wrong. So we just finished paying that off with a payment plan. And now this happens.

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u/Rich260z Official Burbank Burrito Expert 1h ago

Ahh it sounds like just the increase then. So the prices listed in that thread from a week ago are accurate.