I mean, look at the seasons and peak hours. Who in their right mind would pay over 6 times the normal rate during the time that you would normally use electricity the most. Goes from 8 cents to 50 cents / KwH during that time.
The Maryland utility commission needs to see this! Politicians talk bad about payday lenders being schmucks. This is outright robbery being disguised as savings.
Maybe AOC came up with the idea.
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My electric bill is $45 in the winter. They called me and wanted to do an energy audit. I laughed and hung up.
It's a snow job they think because it comes from them after so many years here you will not read the print or think for yourself and your pocketbook.
Go screw yourselves Delmarva Power
I got one of these and thought, WTH? I am very conservative w/ my electric.
Just wait til it becomes mandatory and not a pilot program.
How dumb. You can get your supply from NRG power and pay .08 flat rate all the time.
i work there, and the risk for not meeting 1 hour outweighs the cost of the other 4. thats nuts. i would never do that. ever.
besides,
your gonna eat up KWH when you try to cool your house back down. no savings whatsoever.
April 3, 2019 at 2:25 PM
Their new mantra is that in the summer you should only cool to 80 degrees.
Ridiculous.
For all of you that don't get it, the program isn't to charge you more, but to give you an incentive to use LESS electricity during peak hours. If you don't sign up, you WILL be charged more during peak hours, and won't get a discount during non-peak hours. Don't be stupid. The utility is giving you the option to turn things off when you're not home during the day (at work), and getting a discount when you are home on nights and weekends. The rate is always more during peak hours with high demand.
Hey, when it's 95 degrees outside, 80 feels cool!
Delmarva Power wants to control everyone's air conditioners.
Delmarva Power and their board are low scum parasites
I try and use as much energy as possible. Take these screwjobs and stick them where the sun don't shine? Know why? Because you are paying for that transmission regardless so you might as well get your value out of it. They literally want you to pay 100 dollars for transmission of 10 dollars of electric and think you are stupid enough to go along with it.
@4:33 No the incentive is to sucker you into using as little as power as possible while still extorting you for transmission fees. You go right on ahead and sit hot, I'll be leaving the AC running.
4:33, we already have the option to turn things off when at work during the day. I have a 200 amp service & 200 amps should be available to me 24/7. I pay my full electric bill monthly on time, don't want delmar power controling my cooling system or anything else
April 4, 2019 at 12:43 PM:
Nobody, not Delmarva Power or anybody else, says you have to sign up. It's an OPTION that is being offered to you. Burn all the electricity you want (and pay for it).
All you people that hate the power company, nothing says you have to have it. Try living "off the grid." See how you like it. It can be done. Electricity is a modern convenience, but it is not free. Most people do not have to have air conditioning, but they want it for comfort, and the power companies will supply power for A/C to those willing to pay for it. I'm still alive after all these years, and our schools and homes did not have a/c back then. Y'all are a bunch of crybaby wusses. Sweat a little, it won't kill you. Spoiled, and don't want to pay for it. Want creature comforts without paying for the cost of providing it. I don't feel bad for any of you. Complain all you want, but you won't conserve energy. Too bad. No sympathy from me. If you can't afford it, don't use it. If you use it, expect to pay for it. What it cost is not up to you. What you use is.
That's my plan 4:16
4:33 I totally get it. Don't be condescending.
But, I don't think everyone here read the details:
The letter says that, by signing up, they will bill you 5 times more during peak times. Those peak times are in the morning.
But, when I read the times - that's when I'm THERE not, when I'm no.
When would you want to turn off your a/c or heat when you're there? And if you didn't, you would pay 5 times the normal rate.
It's an absurd offer that some people will end up getting scammed when they think they were saving money and/or the environment.
I have 3 programmable thermostats and have them tailored for where I will be in the house at that time. From October to May 6-9 AM is when my thermostats tell the heat to come on. From June to September, my thermostat tells my compressor to start cooling around 3:30, just before I get home. If I left them how they are now, and signed up for this nonsensical offer, my bill would double -at least.
so, 4:33, I do get it. Very much indeed.
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