Turn Out The Lights
As a consequence of the slumping economy, you’ve probably made some modifications to your behavior.
With prices uniformly increasing at rates that far outpace the average person’s salary, you have had little choice but to adapt – even if you’ve managed to remain employed throughout the last couple of years.
Your economic wellness could depend on it.
I’ve become more budget conscious and have cut back wherever I could. I began by making the easy choices.
- Bargain hunting
- Coupon clipping
- Turning off lights
- No new clothes
- No eating out
These measures helped, but they did not alleviate the strains related to balancing a household budget. The choices got harder. I began to defer things like car maintenance, which can lead to more expensive problems in the future. When feeling squeezed, something has to give.
Recently, the regulatory powers that be loosened the reins on the electric companies in Pennsylvania. My provider, PP&L Electric Utilities, wasted no time in rolling out their new pricing. This chart shows the increases in per kilowatt hour pricing in my electric bills over the last six months.
That’s a whopping 29% increase overall. Even with winter pricing added into the mix, how is this level of increase even remotely justifiable?
During the most recent billing cycle we logged 6,000 kilowatt hours.
Electric choice is available, but shopping for and locking in contracts with electric generation suppliers is an added complexity in an area where it doesn’t need to be.
This is a budget buster.
If you have gone through the process of selecting an electric generation supplier, in Pennsylvania, or in another state, I’m interested in hearing how you have fared and whether you believe that electric choice is beneficial to consumers.
