New Englanders and Electric Rates

The LED bulbs are still very expensive. I bought a few of the A19 bulbs for some lamps in the house but I have BR30 (can lights) in my kitchen and they are currently going for $20 a piece at Home Depot. I have about ten of them in the kitchen so that's 200 in bulbs for just one room. Too much money.

I live in NH and I have the only utility, PSNH, that isn't going to have a huge price increase in the state. My supplier is actually of out Texas even though PSNH delivers the electricity. Many people in NH have shopped around and switched suppliers to get the best rate on the supply side but the delivery charges are still high here.

On the bright side, big brother hasn't started taxing us for our individual carbon footprints yet. I'm sure that's not far off though.

 

Wow, electric resitance heat?

That is one complex bill. I checked and there is no inclining rate structure on NStar, at least not on the non-heating rate schedule (A1). Some google searching looks like that surcharge was something NatGrid requested to the state DPU.



My bill is a lot simpler. $$6.43 meter charge, 9.4 cents for generation and 8.4 cents for distribution and taxes.

 

This^^^^^^^

 

Do your utilities offer subsidies? The mass utilities all do and I can get Philips 60watt equiv bulbs for $7.50 ea, Cree for $5.

I also replaced a lot of my ceiling cans with the Home Depot Ecosmart (made by Cree) CR6 - a BR30 down light with integrated trim. I paid $20 each and considering a can light trim costs that alone on a new install they are basically free. In a retrofit when you consider I was replacing the old incandescent every 2-3 years they will pay for themselves in < 10 years between elec savings and bulb cost.


But please lets keep the politics out this time, I dont want to see yet another thread deleted.

 

My utility does offer rebates for LED bulbs and lighting equipment but it must be something in the rebate catalog that they have and it's all oddball stuff.

I'd really like to pick up the Cree BR30 65W eq for the kitchen but I'm not paying 20 dollars a piece.

 

About 10

k, could be done chaper now since the solar panels and inverters are cheaper. I have 16 panels, 240w each

 

$3 !!!! I was looking on the masssave website and saw 7... Where did you get them for 3??? I'd buy a case at that price!!

 

What kind of bulbs are these? Are they the A19 style? I looked on Phillips website and none of their A19 bulbs are actually omnidirectional.

 

Yup, yup and yup.

 

Thats the site I bought mine, but when I go there I see 7.50, not 3.

How are these working out? Looks like they might work for low profile enclosed ceiling fixtures like the bath, but I have a lot of wall fixtures where you can see the bulbs...

 

Delivery CMP up to 50KWH $10.65 over 50KWH $0.063264 per KWh

Standard offer supply $0.075601 per KWH

My last bill was for 291KWH and was $47.90

Currently those funny Philips 60 watt equivalent LEDs are $1.97 at the local HD and the CREE 60 watt 80CRI LEDs are $4.97 with the Efficiency Maine rebate applied. I replaced 20 of my CFLs with LEDs yesterday the primary goal was to reduce the electricity use in the boss's sewing room but since I was going there I bought more. We will see if it does what I want.