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How much was your 'Winter' quarterly energy bill?
Oct 28^th, 2010 at 10:32am

There has been a lot of media coverage in relation to the dramatic increases in electricity prices - and I am therefore wondering how much ordinary people are forking out for energy in their homes...

I have chosen the 'Winter' bill because that period is typically affected by heating costs and therefore that bill is likely to be the largest for most of us (as not everybody uses aircon over the Summer)...

I am about to add a poll...

BTW, I have chosen 'energy' bills because some people have gas appliances - so please indicate whether or not you pay for energy other than electricity (click on this if you have Solar too)...

I shall also include a response for people to indicate whether their household consumed above the 'typical' consumption of 7,000kWh pa (per NSW's IPART)...

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Reply #2 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:04am

My electricity will be read in early November. Last year that quarter was $224.85. It will be interesting to see how much higher it is. I don't use any heating. My summer bills are much higher because I use the a/c when I am just about to expire from extreme heat lol.

I stopped using as much electricity when they put the price up. I bet they're glad not everyone is like me.

Interesting poll thy.equitist

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Reply #3 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:23am

FYI, according to the IPART NSW Fact Sheet, following are the annual 2009/10 electricity costs of a 'typical' NSW household (excluding GST and based on 7,000 kWh consumption): -

Energy Australia - $1,257

Integral Energy - $1,258

Country Energy - $1,446

So, including GST and rounded up, the 'typical' annual amount actually forked out for last financial year would be: -

Energy Australia - $1,383

Integral Energy - $1,384

Country Energy - $1,591

www.ipart.nsw.gov.au

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Reply #4 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:28am

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:04am:

My electricity will be read in early November. Last year that quarter was $224.85. It will be interesting to see how much higher it is. I don't use any heating. My summer bills are much higher because I use the a/c when I am just about to expire from extreme heat lol.

I stopped using as much electricity when they put the price up. I bet they're glad not everyone is like me.

Interesting poll thy.equitist

I'm impressed, Pansi - from memory, it's been at least a couple of years since our household bills were in that vicinity...

Ironically, we don't use aircon (just fans) but we do use some heating in winter...

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Reply #5 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:31am

Interestly listening to calls made To the ABC Radio this morning on the price rises of electricty , referring to NSW electricity prices rising could be due to the solar power feed in rate rebate scheme . And that has pushed UP the price of power.

This same scheme has just also been downsized.

'NSW's generous solar power rebate scheme has been downsized as power companies announced they would have to pass the cost of the feed-in tariff for solar panels on to consumers.'
~ABC online news

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Reply #6 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:33am

The bills in WA are bimonthly, rather than quarterly, so it's a bit skewed. Our winter bill was about $350 I think.
On the bill they have a graph comparing your current usage, the usage from the previous bill, and the usage from the same period last year. My usage was down on the previous year, but still cost about $80 more.

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Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: How much was your 'Winter' quarterly energy bill? Reply #7 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:39am Now for something really scary: in FY10 our total annual household telecommunications bills exceeded our annual electricity bills by close to 50%! Oh, and we don't have pay TV - and have no intentions of taking it up...
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Reply #8 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:42am

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Interestly listening to calls made To the ABC Radio this morning on the price rises of electricty , referring to NSW electricity prices rising could be due to the solar power feed in rate rebate scheme . And that has pushed UP the price of power.

This same scheme has just also been downsized.

'NSW's generous solar power rebate scheme has been downsized as power companies announced they would have to pass the cost of the feed-in tariff for solar panels on to consumers.'
~ABC online news

The official reasons are contained in this report/fact sheet, which also does CPRS comparisions: -

http://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/files/Fact%20Sheet%20-%20Regulated%20electricity%20r...

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Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: How much was your 'Winter' quarterly energy bill? Reply #9 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 2:16pm Hmmnnnn....the poll results are not yet statistically significant...
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Reply #11 - Oct 29^th, 2010 at 9:05am

Equitist wrote on Oct 28^th, 2010 at 11:39am:

Now for something really scary: in FY10 our total annual household telecommunications bills exceeded our annual electricity bills by close to 50%!

Oh, and we don't have pay TV - and have no intentions of taking it up...

I had to do the sums after I read that.

My total electricity for 2009 was $930 and total telecommunications bill was $1200, that's for a landline, broadband and one mobile phone that doesn't get used much ( I let people ring me lol) no discounts, subsidies or rebates. It will be interesting to compare this years bills.

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Re: How much was your 'Winter' quarterly energy bill?
Reply #12 - Oct 29^th, 2010 at 11:10am

Don't use a dishwasher,
turn powerpoints off.
Sell Fishtank.
Don't watch too much TV and don't pay for PayTV.

Managed to keep our electricity bill way low - under $100.

Then we moved in with the In-Laws (save from Rent and help pay their HomeLoan) ...and the Electrical output is so wasteful.
But what can I do...in-laws remember. Roll Eyes

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Reply #14 - Oct 30^th, 2010 at 5:48am

Coral Sea wrote on Oct 29^th, 2010 at 10:41pm:

I live in America and my electric bill is monthly. I pay about $400 a month.

Wow! coral sea, that's stiff. It also depends on the size of the family and the property though. I know people who used to run the pool filter for eight hours a day are cutting down to 3 or 4 hours. There's only so far you can cut back before life gets awkward. Maybe we need awkward and misery to learn the lesson about waste and sustainability??????

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