Chelco Bill: WOW!

I live in Nashville, but own a home in Seagrove as well. I received my electric bill today and it had increased about 100 dollars since last month. We don't rent the home and haven't been there since the first week of June. I turn it up to 76 when we leave and we turn off the water heater, but it doesn't seem to help. I keep all the blinds down to keep the sun out. I am not as concerned about the electric as I am the water. My bill runs around 90 dollars every month. What I don't understand is that it remains that price even if we are there for 2 weeks at a time. I have questioned them, but they tell me the 90 is an average amount for a 2600 sq ft house. Could someone explain this to me?

I live in Nashville, but own a home in Seagrove as well. I received my electric bill today and it had increased about 100 dollars since last month. We don't rent the home and haven't been there since the first week of June. I turn it up to 76 when we leave and we turn off the water heater, but it doesn't seem to help. I keep all the blinds down to keep the sun out. I am not as concerned about the electric as I am the water. My bill runs around 90 dollars every month. What I don't understand is that it remains that price even if we are there for 2 weeks at a time. I have questioned them, but they tell me the 90 is an average amount for a 2600 sq ft house. Could someone explain this to me?

As far as I know, water/sewer is a flat rate bill for everybody up to a certain usage. My water bill is always a flat $20.xx UNLESS my monthly usage exceeds 6,000 gallons. Since I'm on septic (not public sewer) someone else will have to confirm that the balance of your bill is the flat monthly public sewer rate (I think it is).
I don't know that my meter gets read every single month... but maybe about 2x year I'll get a water bill that's $22.xx. It tends to coincide with the months when the swimming pool experiences lots of evaporation, requiring daily top offs.
Hope this helps.

Water and Electric bills

As far as I know, water/sewer is a flat rate bill for everybody up to a certain usage. My water bill is always a flat $20.xx UNLESS my monthly usage exceeds 6,000 gallons. Since I'm on septic (not public sewer) someone else will have to confirm that the balance of your bill is the flat monthly public sewer rate (I think it is).
I don't know that my meter gets read every single month... but maybe about 2x year I'll get a water bill that's $22.xx. It tends to coincide with the months when the swimming pool experiences lots of evaporation, requiring daily top offs.
Hope this helps.

I am also on septic and my bill is also $20. From what I understand the septic tank keeps the water bills low. Otherwise it seems they pick a price and bill you. My friend has that problem. On the other hand the electric is high for my 900 sq. ft. house that is well shaded. I do like it cold, but even when it was cooler and I only had the a/c on at night it was $99. The past month it was $153. I had a/c problems this month and it ran alot and shut off very little. That went on for a while until they finally figured it out. I am not looking forward to this month's bill. I am from New Orleans and find the electric very high here.

Bumping up now that Old Man Winter is here! I still don't think it has been as cold as last winter do you guys?

Bumping up now that Old Man Winter is here! I still don't think it has been as cold as last winter do you guys?

We had 19 days at 32 or below in December according to the news. But last year did seem colder, especially in Jan.

We had 19 days at 32 or below in December according to the news. But last year did seem colder, especially in Jan.

WOW - thanks Franny! Maybe it hasn't seemed as cold because we've had some decent weather in between the cold days or something like that.

The price of coal is up so the rate Chelco charges (wholesale power adjustment) is up. That's why I was curious as to any bills compared to last year.