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Well not having had to pay for electricity in the last 5 years I have a question. I'm currently in a park near my dad to help him out for a bit and great monthly rate plus elect. I asked what the KWH rate was and the office didn't know as they just take the readings and enter them and the Edison co. does the figures for each site and sends the invoices back to the park. Looking at my neighbors bill was a bit confusing. I saw what was called the "baseline" which was 12.4 I am assuming this is 12.4 cents a KW? Also baseline meaning what it does there must be a different rate that goes into place once you go over baseline whatever that is? Am I safe to assume this and right so far? I'm in the hot valley (over 100 next few days so the subject has my attention lol. My neighbors bill was a bit confusing but near as I could tell it was the number of KWH devided by the 12.4 plus a few surcharges ect.
Any input? Tthanks!
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2oldman
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Your assumptions sound right, as does the 12.4. Couldn't you call Edison and ask?
Your neighbor's bill should be $0.124 TIMES the number of KWH. Or, obviously, the total bill divided by the KWH would be the price/kwh.
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Here in our area the baseline is 800KWHrs. To that point we pay 11.2 cents. Once you go over 800 the rate goes to 12.2 cents on all KWHrs used.
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firedude
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2oldman wrote:Your assumptions sound right, as does the 12.4. Couldn't you call Edison and ask?
Your neighbor's bill should be $0.124 TIMES the number of KWH. Or, obviously, the total bill divided by the KWH would be the price/kwh.
Well it wish it was as easy as that. I did call Edison and they won't tell me anything because they don't do the meter reading and billing and I have to ask the office. The office says they send the meter readings to Edison who figures the bill and sends it back lol!
what Edison was able to tell my from what I saw on my neighbors bill was the 12.4 figure "baseline" means basically I can use 372 KWH's per month without going over baseline. they refused and said they could not tell me the baseline rate nor the rate after you exceed baseline. My first bill will only be for 2 weeks so I guess it's a wait till the 1st to see and try and figure out. My first 2 weeks my usage was 372 KW so I can easily figure at least double, probably more with the heat wave right now easily placing me well over baseline.
Kind of like Abbott and Costello here. who's on what base lol? Office doesn't know because Edison figures bills and sends them back to park for each site. Edison won't tell me because thye don't bill me the park does. sound familiar? Oh well, I'll try and figure it out myself the 1st.
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Modracer wrote:Here in our area the baseline is 800KWHrs. To that point we pay 11.2 cents. Once you go over 800 the rate goes to 12.2 cents on all KWHrs used.
Thanks Modracer, that shed a bit more light on ity anyway.
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Actually it all depends on how many the WHOLE park uses. Some parks have base lines figured on their average use for the whole park for the year. Some have it figured on a certain amount of sites and some on each site.
It is my opinion that you have a pretty good deal there as it appears you are getting a break on the baseline. Where u are, they normally charge 15 per kw, so it seems you are getting a good deal.
Now are they going to charge you to read the meter, bill you, and a disconnect charge? Many do in that area.
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The rates are usually published by the utility on their web site. Sometimes they are hard to find but they are there. At the park we managed, we always knew the rates and the utility read the meters. Most parks that read their own meters bill their guests directly usually adding a surcharge. Reading a meter correctly is not that easy for most to do.
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OK and Wacky you are right. Borrowed my neighbors bill and once I understood the baseline and the next 5 tiers I have it all figured out and based on current usage that I've averaged even in this heat wave my bill for a month should be around $120 give or take ... no charge to read meter or disconnect fee.
whew!~ not bad after all.
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That aint bad in that kinda heat. Over in Yuma area, it would be 50 bucks or more higher
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While numbers just aren't my thing (LOL) ; I can tell you that when we visited Buckhorn Lakes RV Resort in Kerrville, TX last summer, our RV site was billed at a substantially lower rate than the daily rate and we we were billed separately for our electricity for the week based on the meter reading at the site. Our weekly electric bill was around $21.
In July, in south Texas, you run the air conditioners all the time.
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