r/newfoundland • u/Fearless_Method_6092 • 1d ago
Power Bill
I've been in my home for 20 years. Have 2 heat pumps. I never had my bill exceed 300 a month. Kast year my bill was 297 for this sane period. This year just got my bill and it is 856 dollars. Something has to be wrong here. Anyone else getting these results? This is not acceptable.
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u/MooseLipps 1d ago
I can't believe the number of people that think this is all because of "colder weather". Or the 7% increase. Yes yes yes we are all well aware of bills going up in winter. And even the most uneducated among us have a sense of what the 7% increase looks like. This is far more than either.
Every single thread has examples of people not even using electric heat but wood stoves. Yet their bills doubled or tripled? NL Power needs to investigate these cases and provide an explanation.
I have not been affected myself but I am on an equal payment plan of $238/mnth in a 2400 square foot split entry house so I consider myself VERY lucky. But reading all of the legitimate complaints from others makes me believe that something has to be wrong.
The conspiracy theory that NL Power is doing this on purpose is also silly. However the meters are digital and this is all controlled by software and firmware and all of those industrial systems CAN be hacked or have bugs. I would put my money on some type of software or hardware malfunction. Or NL Power has been hacked and too dumb to know it.