Aloha kakou,
I wonder if anyone out there can help me with this:
I live in a townhouse complex. A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor sheepishly asked me if my electric bill has been really high. Yes, it has been ever since January of this year. Attributing the larger monthly bills to the rising gas prices, I never looked at my HECO bill which shows kilowatt-hour usage on a graph. Finally doing so gave me a shock!
Among the several problems I see, the one that stands out most prominently is the fact that for all of 2010, my energy usage was consistent. In February of this year, HECO show me as having the highest usage I have ever had! Never mind that February is the shortest month of the year, and I wasn't home for 10 days that month. Since then, HECO shows my usage as dropping slightly then rising and rising.
I called HECO twice, and I was told, in a nutshell:
1. I must be running my A/C since it's been a warm summer (I don't use a/c)
2. It has to be one of my appliances (though none of them have been changed or malfunctioned in 3 years)
3. I don't need anyone to come out and take a look at my meter because the only way a HECO meter would malfunction is to slow down and stop, and
4. A senior HECO employee will call me back in 4-8 weeks (!!!)
So my biggest concern now is how to go about checking my appliances to see if I'm "leaking" electricity somewhere. What do I need to do to accomplish this? Anyone?
Mahalo nui loa in advance!
Jo
I wonder if anyone out there can help me with this:
I live in a townhouse complex. A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor sheepishly asked me if my electric bill has been really high. Yes, it has been ever since January of this year. Attributing the larger monthly bills to the rising gas prices, I never looked at my HECO bill which shows kilowatt-hour usage on a graph. Finally doing so gave me a shock!
Among the several problems I see, the one that stands out most prominently is the fact that for all of 2010, my energy usage was consistent. In February of this year, HECO show me as having the highest usage I have ever had! Never mind that February is the shortest month of the year, and I wasn't home for 10 days that month. Since then, HECO shows my usage as dropping slightly then rising and rising.
I called HECO twice, and I was told, in a nutshell:
1. I must be running my A/C since it's been a warm summer (I don't use a/c)
2. It has to be one of my appliances (though none of them have been changed or malfunctioned in 3 years)
3. I don't need anyone to come out and take a look at my meter because the only way a HECO meter would malfunction is to slow down and stop, and
4. A senior HECO employee will call me back in 4-8 weeks (!!!)
So my biggest concern now is how to go about checking my appliances to see if I'm "leaking" electricity somewhere. What do I need to do to accomplish this? Anyone?
Mahalo nui loa in advance!
Jo
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