So my house flooded in August due to hurricane Irene. We ended up having to replace all the electric on the outside to the pole and inside (meter, all wiring to weather head. National Grid replaced the meter and from weather head to pole). We upgraded everything to high efficiency (i.e. boiler, tank less hot water heater, all new appliances) we upgraded our panel box to 200 amp service. Now our bill has tripled. This is the breakdown for what we use a MONTH from April 21st, 2010:
04/21/2010 441 KWH, 05/19/2010 403 KWH, 6/21/2010 612KWH, 7/21/2010 572 KWH, 8/20/2010 961 KWH, 9/20/2010 568 KWH, 10/19/2010 635 KWH, 11/17/2010 611 KWH, 12/17/2010 583 KWH, 1/19/2011 615 KWH, 2/16/2011 479 KWH, 3/18/2011 515 KWH, 4/19/2011 525 KWH, 5/18/2011 441 KWH, 6/20/2011 580 KWH, 7/20/2011 705 KWH, 8/19/2011 779 KWH, 9/19/2011 848 KWH, 10/18/2011 1281 KWH, 11/17/2011 1226 KWH, 12/19/2011 1370 KWH, 1/19/2012 1770 KWH, 2/16/2012 1685 KWH, 3/21/2012 2353 KWH.
August 28th 2011 we lost power due to the hurricane. Our billing cycle is from August 19- Sept. 19. We didn’t get our power turned back on until September 22nd. This is due to having to replace everything. So National grid is telling us we used 848 kwh in 9 days. Then it jumps once we get a new meter. Now the meter that was on the home wasn’t to old, but because it was under water it needed to be replaced. National grid says there must be something wrong inside our home, because there couldn’t be anything wrong with their meter. When all the electric was being done, we had a NYS underwriter in the house checking everything. We also had a licensed electrician here twice to check everything. So with all this said, how can our usage go from 515 kwh on 3/18/2011 to 2353 kwh on 3/21/2012” Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank You!!
Well we tested everything inside and the power comapny was here and tested the meter and nothing was found. Even the power guy was shocked as to how much power is being used…any other help would be great!