Got pounded on electricity as well so looked into it deeper and discovered two things:
1. I would have been about even if I had switched to locked in rates. Using the current price for contracting I looked back at the floating rate for the year and one month of high prices cancelled out 11 months of lower. It was pretty much a wash.
2. Two years in a row Enmax prices have been extremely high in February. Two years in a row only two months in the entire year were estimated usage vs. an actual meter reading. Those two months just happened to be February. Two years in a row March usage was way lower than normal when the meter reading caught up. Coincidence? That pi$$es me off. Two months or estimated usage at super high prices followed by two months of very low usage back at 'normal' rates.
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