Our electric bill has been running pretty high even though it hasn’t been that cold and we’ve been supplementing with wood heat. Decided to track down the culprit and hooked up an energy usage monitor to one of our 5 sub panels. Gonna check the other 4 over the course of the next few days.
“find a better provider”
Most utilities are regional monopolies, there is no other option.
Some places let you purchase electricity from a seperate broker but you still pay the utility for the lines.
They’ve got solar; expand the power gen a little more and add a battery system.
Disconnecting doesn’t seem so bad in that scenario.
Or monitor power use yourself and compare numbers. You’ll learn interesting things.
I’m in an apartment and found I’m being charged about 1-2% extra because of the voltage drop between the utilities meter on the ground floor, and where I’m monitoring in my unit 5 floors up and on the far side of the building.
For every kwh I measure, I get billed ~1016wh. Had to adjust the voltage reading up a little bit to match.