Name:   Little Talisi - Subject:   Power Co. Bill Date:   1/26/2018 10:05:23 AM

After watching the other posts, I was curious as to what our bill would be. I checked online this morning and not wanting to scare anyone will only say that my budget billing amount is increasing. We live here fulltime and have two heat pumps. Our thermostats during the winter are set at 68. Now let me tell you what I have checked and found today. I have a weather station here and it provides me with both current conditions and forecast. It also keeps all of my historical data on the web. This years bill was for 34 days. I checked the dates for last year and discovered that the average temp was 56 degrees with winds at 2 mph out of the SE. When I checked this year same time period I found that the average temp was 42 degrees with the wind at 3 mph from the NE. I checked the wind because it determines the amount of windchill. Winds from the NE drop the temp the most. Now if you had set your thermostat at 55 or 60 both years last year it virtually never came on. This year a different story. This is strictly my opinion and if my farmer grandfather was still with us he would have just said, "It was colder".