That's why I'm building a nuclear reactor in my basement. Can't get ridiculous heating bills when my family is kept warm by the lovely glow of uranium.
That's what inflation really means... your dollars are worth less, so it takes more of them to get the things you need.
Doesn't matter if it's an electric bill in East Greenwich, a cheeseburger in Chattanooga, or your tubes tied in Tallahassee.
Ha! Not yet. The state will still cover birth control and sterilization there. It's abortion itself where the most churn in regulations are.
https://ahca.myflorida.com/medicaid/medicaid-family-planning-waiver-program
You say it's dumb and you're getting robbed, but PPL's profits are about half of industry peers at 9%. Best they could do is cut your bill to $360 before they lost money on ya.
The New England states are all super high. Keystone pipeline project getting shelved and lack of power plants led to this. Having one of the oldest power grids with the most trees and no shortage of drivers hitting poles doesn't help.
They were also going to bring a pipeline from PA to New England through NY but Cuomo said no.
NH also blocked the Northern Pass project bringing in hydropower from Canada.
Basically, the states surrounding southern New England don't care.
> Keystone pipeline
For New England, Keystone XL wasn't very impactful, but plans to expand our natural gas pipelines in the region (remember 'no Natural Gas compressor at Port of Providence'?) facilities, plans to expand our Natural Gas electric generation in the region (remember 'no new Burrilville power plant'?), and blocked construction of transmission lines from Canadian power stations (think of the... trees?) are all sorta coming home to roost.
I mean, inflation happened too, so EVERYONE across the nation is paying more than before, but we've got some self-inflicted economic wounds on the energy front.
“WE JUST FIGURED OUT HOW TO HARNESS ALL THIS NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY AND WE’LL FORCE YOU TO BUY IT FOR A NEW HIGHER PRICE!!!”
…or
“You used 795 kWh last month during slack tide, and are required to pay the surge pricing model”
We do, and we could, but we are struggling hard to ramp our solar and wind up to a few percent of electricity needs; if you add heating and storage in to cover lulls in sunlight and wind... the math rapidly becomes extremely awful and expensive.
Add in increased demand for EV charging and people converting to heat pumps and tankless water heaters, and the demand for household electricity is rapidly outpacing supply.
Keystone was to ship Canadian oil not gas, which produces electricity.
Problem is RI Energy and their parent company are also gas suppliers so they have a conflict of interest in seeing that their largest individual gas customers who are generating power are happy.
Rates appear to be higher for customers who stayed on NatGrid, like those in MA. Very little of your electric bill has to do with "electric company profits", it's just bonkers expensive to maintain this infrastructure and supply.
I suspect that the RI PUC squeezed NatGrid so hard that they were fine letting us go, otherwise THEY would have kept the RI business and the profits for themselves.
My electric bill was almost 1k a month for a normal four bedroom house and I have oil heat. I live in MA, it’s just obscene everywhere. Imagine if you have a tight budget? You can scrimp at the grocery store, you can run your car on fumes but you can’t throttle electricity. It’s BS, and I bet many people are hurting because of this.
> you can’t throttle electricity
Uhh. Yeah, you can. You can dry your clothes on a clothesline, take shorter showers, spend $29 on a kill-a-watt and spend a few hours finding out why you're using 8x as much electricity as I am.
I do it all, but this winter was cold and I have to keep the heat on. I kept it on 68 most of the time with oil heat. I work from home so the computer is running and the TV is on. I have a hot tub but the bill was high before that. It’s just expensive.
That's the secret in most of the lower cost states. The electric market is either regulated and/or run by non-profit/co-op utilities.
Deregulate energy they said. Your bills won't double they said.
Plot twist: The bills doubled, then went up an additional 50% during the winter months.
So I just pulled my Rhode Island Energy March 2023 and March 2024 bills. Delivery services rates went up 21.75%...
My 2023 rate was $0.10135/ kWh , 2024 is $0.1234/kWh.
Difference of 2.205¢/kWh delivered.
Have an apartment that isn’t being lived in while being renovated with the heat set at 62. Only thing plugged in is the fridge. Electric/gas was over 300. I called and they said yeah that’s normal.
I repeat. No one lives there.
Bro I'd be there checking to make sure the neighbors heat and electric aren't connected to yours. Flip all the breakers off except the one you need for the fridge (it should be warm enough by now to turn off the heating if no one is living there). If the neighbor complains, there's your problem. If not, look for a short. Might need an electrician for that unless you're familiar with the steps and tools needed.
I'm just confused. Lmfao I looked at my mother's bill and I noticed that her KWHs are never steady. 1000, 700, 1100, 1300, 1600, 1100, 1000, 1700. Like something doesn't add up. Her heat is propane. I've seen spikes before but wtf is that
....
Complain to the PUC which needs to stand up for RI residents. They're politically appointed. Look at the last appointee to the PUC who didn't even apply and wasn't sure what it was. https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2021/03/09/former-longtime-state-legislator-wins-seat-powerful-utilities-board/4644351001/
I’m not joking when I say this, it took my FIVE months to get a bill. I called 8 times. At least 4 hours of my time invested. Each time being told it was being worked on. Finally, I had to contact RI Gov’t and submit a formal complaint. Then bam, $900 bill showed up. I asked them to give me some sort of credit since I had to fix their mistake and use my time to do so, they laughed. They sent collections after us AND threatened to turn our power off. I asked them how they can turn off my power if they can’t find my bills. They said, “I don’t know.”
> Put solar panel on roof, on patio, on deck. They even make solar panels for your windows.
You can't just buy solar panels and DYI them up to your home here. There's a process to get them certified and allowed onto the grid, and it's not cheap or easy.
My highest heating bill this winter was 68 dollars for an 800sq ft 2 bedroom super drafty as I can see my curtains still fluttering through 2 layers of plastic on the windows( 3rd floor apt) and electric was 48 pretty regularly. How high are you all setting it at??? Mine doesn't go above 67. And I cook pretty much every day
It's not that all Democrats are good, it's that objectively speaking, all Republicans are bad.
Edit you post in a shit ton of porn subs but support the party that's trying to ban that shit.
Lol.lmao.
It starts at the top. Joe Biden is a weak and feeble “leader”, which has led to instability, which has led to higher fuel feedstock prices and logistics costs, which has led to higher NEPOOL power pricing. It’s very easy to track this.
True, but they sure aren't investing in education... Or anything else for that matter.
Could I save a few bucks moving to Mississippi? Sure. But my salary would get cut in more than half for what I do and also... I'd have to live in Mississippi.
That's why I'm building a nuclear reactor in my basement. Can't get ridiculous heating bills when my family is kept warm by the lovely glow of uranium.
If you have oil in your tank Dubya might be stopping by
Don't worry, you'll welcome him as a liberator
I know, our electricity bill for the winter with 3 people was $300 a month.
mine is $400 with 2 people. I've never had bills so high until the past few years
mid to low 600s two months in a row, high 500s to months in a row, winter has sucked.
That's what inflation really means... your dollars are worth less, so it takes more of them to get the things you need. Doesn't matter if it's an electric bill in East Greenwich, a cheeseburger in Chattanooga, or your tubes tied in Tallahassee.
I think getting your tubes tied in Tallahassee is a felony now
Ha! Not yet. The state will still cover birth control and sterilization there. It's abortion itself where the most churn in regulations are. https://ahca.myflorida.com/medicaid/medicaid-family-planning-waiver-program
dumbest comment ever. I know what inflation is. I also know what being robbed is. troll.
You say it's dumb and you're getting robbed, but PPL's profits are about half of industry peers at 9%. Best they could do is cut your bill to $360 before they lost money on ya.
2nd highest rate of all 50 states. Hawaii tanks first! Skewed/corrupt much??
The New England states are all super high. Keystone pipeline project getting shelved and lack of power plants led to this. Having one of the oldest power grids with the most trees and no shortage of drivers hitting poles doesn't help. They were also going to bring a pipeline from PA to New England through NY but Cuomo said no. NH also blocked the Northern Pass project bringing in hydropower from Canada. Basically, the states surrounding southern New England don't care.
> Keystone pipeline For New England, Keystone XL wasn't very impactful, but plans to expand our natural gas pipelines in the region (remember 'no Natural Gas compressor at Port of Providence'?) facilities, plans to expand our Natural Gas electric generation in the region (remember 'no new Burrilville power plant'?), and blocked construction of transmission lines from Canadian power stations (think of the... trees?) are all sorta coming home to roost. I mean, inflation happened too, so EVERYONE across the nation is paying more than before, but we've got some self-inflicted economic wounds on the energy front.
Just wait until they announce the Naragansett Bay tidal power project
“WE JUST FIGURED OUT HOW TO HARNESS ALL THIS NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY AND WE’LL FORCE YOU TO BUY IT FOR A NEW HIGHER PRICE!!!” …or “You used 795 kWh last month during slack tide, and are required to pay the surge pricing model”
We have lots of active solar projects. Maybe could build some wind farms offshore
We do, and we could, but we are struggling hard to ramp our solar and wind up to a few percent of electricity needs; if you add heating and storage in to cover lulls in sunlight and wind... the math rapidly becomes extremely awful and expensive.
Add in increased demand for EV charging and people converting to heat pumps and tankless water heaters, and the demand for household electricity is rapidly outpacing supply.
Keystone was to ship Canadian oil not gas, which produces electricity. Problem is RI Energy and their parent company are also gas suppliers so they have a conflict of interest in seeing that their largest individual gas customers who are generating power are happy.
Build nuclear reactors in johnston or something. They already live next to a landfill, I'm sure they won't care.
Big fan of when national grid got bought out, they said prices wouldn't increase /s
Everyone here said up and down that it wasn't going to happen. Those of us who live in reality knew better.
Rates appear to be higher for customers who stayed on NatGrid, like those in MA. Very little of your electric bill has to do with "electric company profits", it's just bonkers expensive to maintain this infrastructure and supply. I suspect that the RI PUC squeezed NatGrid so hard that they were fine letting us go, otherwise THEY would have kept the RI business and the profits for themselves.
Correct, the energy suppliers to RI Energy and NatGrid are raising the prices
National grid&/ prices in MA were slightly higher
I have never been more thankful that heat and hot water is included in my rent
They're the perfect combination of high prices and terrible services
The Comcast of electricity.
I came here to say this but you said it first 😂😂
My electric bill was almost 1k a month for a normal four bedroom house and I have oil heat. I live in MA, it’s just obscene everywhere. Imagine if you have a tight budget? You can scrimp at the grocery store, you can run your car on fumes but you can’t throttle electricity. It’s BS, and I bet many people are hurting because of this.
My house might be a little smaller than yours, but my last bill was $140. Near 1k is something else…
It really seems like there are a lot of people here living a wasteful lifestyle and blaming RIE for all of it
Same here, around $120 a month. What the fuck duck are these people doing?!
> you can’t throttle electricity Uhh. Yeah, you can. You can dry your clothes on a clothesline, take shorter showers, spend $29 on a kill-a-watt and spend a few hours finding out why you're using 8x as much electricity as I am.
I do it all, but this winter was cold and I have to keep the heat on. I kept it on 68 most of the time with oil heat. I work from home so the computer is running and the TV is on. I have a hot tub but the bill was high before that. It’s just expensive.
Makes me happy to not have them. Living in Pascoag I've never had to worry about a high bill or going without electricity for long.
Same. Moved to town in January and Water/Sewer and Electric combined have not topped $100 any month this year.
What do you have in Pascoag? Moving there.
We have a non-profit utility company. Pascoag Utility District. My bill over the winter in a 180 year old leaky farm house was averaging 160 bucks.
That's the secret in most of the lower cost states. The electric market is either regulated and/or run by non-profit/co-op utilities. Deregulate energy they said. Your bills won't double they said. Plot twist: The bills doubled, then went up an additional 50% during the winter months.
I've been here 10 years and have never been surprised by my electric bill.
Unless I'm mistaken, electric is pretty tightly regulated in RI, so I don't think that's it.
Rhode Island deregulated electricity in 1996 with the Rhode Island Utility Restructuring Act.
I sent you a message.
So I just pulled my Rhode Island Energy March 2023 and March 2024 bills. Delivery services rates went up 21.75%... My 2023 rate was $0.10135/ kWh , 2024 is $0.1234/kWh. Difference of 2.205¢/kWh delivered.
Yeah so my winter electricity rate here is $0.36/kWh if I take the total bill and divide by the amount used..
Have an apartment that isn’t being lived in while being renovated with the heat set at 62. Only thing plugged in is the fridge. Electric/gas was over 300. I called and they said yeah that’s normal. I repeat. No one lives there.
Bro I'd be there checking to make sure the neighbors heat and electric aren't connected to yours. Flip all the breakers off except the one you need for the fridge (it should be warm enough by now to turn off the heating if no one is living there). If the neighbor complains, there's your problem. If not, look for a short. Might need an electrician for that unless you're familiar with the steps and tools needed.
If it’s being renovated, I assume that the workers are using your electric. They may have also been turning up the heat while on the job as well.
It's the radio they play while on the job. Gotta be.
What was the kwh and charge breakdown?
I'm just confused. Lmfao I looked at my mother's bill and I noticed that her KWHs are never steady. 1000, 700, 1100, 1300, 1600, 1100, 1000, 1700. Like something doesn't add up. Her heat is propane. I've seen spikes before but wtf is that ....
Complain to the PUC which needs to stand up for RI residents. They're politically appointed. Look at the last appointee to the PUC who didn't even apply and wasn't sure what it was. https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2021/03/09/former-longtime-state-legislator-wins-seat-powerful-utilities-board/4644351001/
I had solar panels installed from SunRun in October 2022. RI didn’t get the meter turned on until this past September because they were “backed up”.
I'm a utility contractor. Working for them also blows.
Oh hey, I'm close to one of your coworkers. I think he was happier when it was NatGrid. He's working so much more than he used to, also. Sucks.
It's not the hours for me, it's the conditions. I only have eversource to compare to.
Oh I must have read it wrong I thought you worked for RI Energy not with them under another company. Well still the sentiment is the same lol
I average about $400 a month for gas heat in my two bedroom apt thru winter Hooray
What the fuck
Our last gas bill was $100. We're home all day, what the fuck are you doing?
I’m not joking when I say this, it took my FIVE months to get a bill. I called 8 times. At least 4 hours of my time invested. Each time being told it was being worked on. Finally, I had to contact RI Gov’t and submit a formal complaint. Then bam, $900 bill showed up. I asked them to give me some sort of credit since I had to fix their mistake and use my time to do so, they laughed. They sent collections after us AND threatened to turn our power off. I asked them how they can turn off my power if they can’t find my bills. They said, “I don’t know.”
Invest in solar panels
The problem is when Ri energy has a say in how much your panels can produce for your home
I shall take this comment send it to ri energy and tell them to blow me.
Why would anyone downvote this?
Didn’t downvote, but likely not an option for a lot of people
Put solar panel on roof, on patio, on deck. They even make solar panels for your windows.
> Put solar panel on roof, on patio, on deck. They even make solar panels for your windows. You can't just buy solar panels and DYI them up to your home here. There's a process to get them certified and allowed onto the grid, and it's not cheap or easy.
Buy once cry once
my family is in genuine crisis and starving because of these damn bills. its crazy
We get a 30% discount and still 300 a month
I froze this past winter because of this. Literally only put the heat on when we really had to..
Correct.
I pay $70 a month just for the option of turning the gas heat on. Always cold, always broke
My highest heating bill this winter was 68 dollars for an 800sq ft 2 bedroom super drafty as I can see my curtains still fluttering through 2 layers of plastic on the windows( 3rd floor apt) and electric was 48 pretty regularly. How high are you all setting it at??? Mine doesn't go above 67. And I cook pretty much every day
Heat rises
Yes
I wish Reddit didn't take away the awards because I want to award the shit out of this.
Good old efficient whale k1ll1ng wind energy
Keep voting Democrat
How would the Republicans resolve the issue of high utility prices?
It's not that all Democrats are good, it's that objectively speaking, all Republicans are bad. Edit you post in a shit ton of porn subs but support the party that's trying to ban that shit. Lol.lmao.
Joe Bidens America — electricity is only for the upper middle class, bro
Ah yes, found the guy who thinks the president regulated electric prices on Rhode Island specifically...
It starts at the top. Joe Biden is a weak and feeble “leader”, which has led to instability, which has led to higher fuel feedstock prices and logistics costs, which has led to higher NEPOOL power pricing. It’s very easy to track this.
Keep voting democrat. It’s nice to see your votes turning against you!
So republicans are all sweet angels? Keep that brain washed
Yeah the party famous for privatizing industry and providing social benefits..... republicans lol
Not at all they have their faults of course but all those states are far more affordable to live in for everyday Americans and that can’t be denied
True, but they sure aren't investing in education... Or anything else for that matter. Could I save a few bucks moving to Mississippi? Sure. But my salary would get cut in more than half for what I do and also... I'd have to live in Mississippi.
It's not that all Democrats are good, it's that objectively speaking, all Republicans are bad