CJT said (on or about) 01/19/2008 19:40:
Neon John wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:39:45 -0600, Steve IA wrote:



Talked to a couple more neighbors and their December bill was also
higher than expected. I will verify with the REC that these readings
were not estimated. The clerk who I spoke to may not know the whole
story.
Thanks


Most likely. I KNOW that my co-op's receptionist and general purpose
customer
answer-girl tells customers that they don't estimate. I KNOW equally
well (because
I'm friends with the meter department supervisor) that they do.

One other thing that you might want to do is find out the number of
degree-days for
that month and the previous month(s). Absent any major change in
configuration (new
major appliance, for example), electricity usage for a given customer
tracks
remarkably well with degree-days. This holds even for houses where
the primary heat
source isn't electricity. Not sure why but that is what the
statistics show.

If the degree-days are much lower for the month in question then you
can be pretty

I think you mean higher rather than lower. Degree days are measured as
delta from a base temperature.


You mean Heating Degree Days -- Cooling Degree Days are calculated in
the reverse. Of course if Steve is cooling things in Iowa during
December and January then there really is a warming problem. Of
course all the hot-air from the political types in Nov-Dec could have
created a need for cooling. But I digress....

sure that you used more energy.

I'm still betting on estimated readings and the one in question being
a "catch up".

John
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