I noticed that my projected bill will be much cheaper than my last, even though I haven’t changed my habits, so I did some math. At this same point in last month’s billing cycle (71.4% through the cycle), I used a net of 550kWh. As of the end of the day yesterday, I have used 122.5kWh. As I said, I haven’t changed my habits and have even used my electric oven more since I have family visiting that likes to bake. SDG&E has long said that they don’t make money on the generation charge, just the delivery charge, but none of that would change how much power they say I am using. Even though they have a natural monopoly on power delivery with regulatory capture of CPUC guaranteeing them whatever increases they ask for, I wouldn’t put it past them and Sempra to fuck around with how much power they say we are using. I don’t think any of us would be surprised to wake up some day to headlines about SDG&E and Sempra under investigation for fraud.
They’re corrupt as fuck and a blatant abusive monopoly. A buddy and I have been passing around petitions to get a measure on the ballot for the city to take over. Something must be done.
You could install your own monitor. I’ve been meaning to do that.
Your meter has a sort of odometer for your kWh used. What you could do is just write that down every day at the same time, say 9AM or 9PM if you’re not a morning person. After 7 days you should have a pretty good approximation of your daily average. Take that average x 30, is that closer to 500 kWh or closer to what SDGE is billing you?