[Dido]

I just got my electric bill--highest of the year so far, of course. In July, I used 562 KWH, at 10.6 cents per KWH for a bill of $59.37. (Our electric rate here in PA is set articifically low after the deregulation that occurred 10 years ago; rate caps are due to come off by 2009 or 2010, and the expected rate increase is substantial. They're saying 20-30%, but the paper just ran an article after another community nearby that already had the rate caps removed and their rates are up about 200-300%. But that's because the company paid for electricity in advance and did so right after a hurricane when the rates were inflated. My power company has a proposal in for comment right now where they propose buying their power for the next several years in 6 purchases made over 3 years to spread out any costs and decrease the probability of the same thing happening here.

My company also gives me a chart with my monthly average, which was 19 KWH/day last month. That's more than double the average of the other months on the chart! (I don't have a complete years' worth of data here yet since I moved into this house last Nov. 1)