Don't even go there... Ontario is the highest in all of Canada, Quebec is the cheapest in Canada.
My bill will be ugly in a week or so... 😥

Ontario is the highest in all of Canada

What are the Ontario rates?

And why's Quebec so cheap?

Barb

That's it?? I didn't know electricity was so cheap in Canada! I WISH ours was that amount.

Sheesh, it's like pulling teeth getting info out of you guys...
must be a gender thing 😆 😆

$321.00 per month here (budget plan) Went UP last year by $80 a month for all the lights, buried heat cable I use. 🙁

That's just for electricity? 😯

NOT including natural gas, etc.?
Holy crap,...I see your point. 😐

So you're saying the outdoor plant protection equates to $80 ?

Barb

Yep, just electricity....and we have cheap rates compared to most of the US. On propane for house heat as a secondary, as it's only used when temps dip below 22F Heatpump is used above that temp.

I have some warming trays for seed that I germinate, a radiant heater in the greenhouse to keep it from freezing....3 ponds with stock tank heaters in them to keep from freezing. It's been SO COLD this year(worst in 30 years) that I had to pull up a couple of protection cages and add a 2nd string of lights as one string was having a hard time keeping up in sub zero cold. 🙁

Here's the breakdown with Peak and off-peak consumption for 2 months. Summer costs slightly more with the A/C, I use Nat Gas for most of the winter.... until the Palms arrived. Can you believe, a delivery charge??!!!

*Off Peak Summer 223.76 kWh x .0670000 14.99
*Off Peak Winter 838.36 kWh x .0720000 60.36
*Mid Peak Summer 49.67 kWh x .1040000 5.17
*Mid Peak Winter 125.20 kWh x .1090000 13.65
*On Peak Summer 30.57 kWh x .1240000 3.79
*On Peak Winter 225.44 kWh x .1290000 29.08
Delivery 76.72
Regulatory Charges 9.20
Debt Retirement Charge 10.45
Other Charges
H.S.T. REG.# 86829 1980 29.04
ON Clean Energy Benefit-10% 1 25.25CR

Total Electricity Charges $227.20

I don't know what's worse, summer or winter... Perhaps I'll rig A/C to the palms in summer!

Luckily I am a empty nester, and purchased a much smaller house a few years back. For my wife and I, we pay 207$ monthly all electric no gas. That is also for my 12x12 heated building with 16 T8 lights for over 500 plants ever winter too.

Barb, get that bill paid would hate to see those palms get froze.

add a 2nd string of lights as one string was having a hard time keeping up in sub zero cold. icon_sad.gif

Remote thermometers are worth their weight in gold this time of year.
Sometimes I'm afraid to look at it...nothing I can do, used up all the light strings.
So far so good I think.

Can you believe, a delivery charge??!!!

Yeah, amazing! They sure think of "novel" charges now.
Regulatory and Debt Retirement aren't much better. 😆

Are you guys in ON on Time of Use for electricity usage?
Apparently it's coming to BC, now that we've all got our smart meters.
The good thing about that is the C-9s are mostly on at night, all night. 😉

Chad, the smaller house is a good idea.
Your costs are certainly bearable since it includes heating your house, and covering the other building too.
We're all electric too, no gas on the street, but I never turn on the elec heaters.

Our "barely heated building" is on a separate hydro meter, haven't got that bill yet...oh oh.
That's where all the other plants are.

We're empty nesters too.
But the house size...aaaargh! Loading the woodstove is a full time job (in the basement of a four-level) so it's gotta stay "cookin" to get the whole place warm.
Sometimes I feel like I'm stoking a steam locomotive. 😆

Yup, bill's paid today. 😀

Fortunately H has no idea how much all those C9s and ceramic heater cost to run. 😆 😆

Barb

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Can you believe, a delivery charge??!!!

Yeah, amazing! They sure think of "novel" charges now.
Regulatory and Debt Retirement aren't much better. 😆

Are you guys in ON on Time of Use for electricity usage?
Apparently it's coming to BC, now that we've all got our smart meters.
The good thing about that is the C-9s are mostly on at night, all night. 😉 Barb

Yup, when the Smart meters were installed, it was business as usual for around 6 months, then Big Brother took over, with the Peak and off-Peak bs.
Around here, everyone's doing their laundry around midnight on a Sunday 😆

It's the summer A/C that really impacts the bill, more so than the day to day consumption.

My electricity bill is a disaster all of the time. Nothing phases me anymore... But when you have a computer bigger than most people fridge you have to expect it...

my hydro bill is on automatic payment. I'm afraid to open the envelope. I will after the cold is gone

Tavi

everyone's doing their laundry around midnight on a Sunday

Sheesh, that's awful, folks.

When TOU kicks in here, I'll be doing breakfast lunch and dinner on the BBQ.
Toast anyone? 😆

I've heard that elec in Germany is 24 cents a kiloWatt hour. 😯 😯 😯

We've got a 10 kW wind turbine, but since climate change arrived, the daily winds are sparse at best.
Except when the big storms arrive, and then it breaks down. 🙄

Barb