OG&E Smarthours anyone?

[TJay74]

I am on it and have people at my house during the day. I pre-cool my house before the 2pm peak time. At 8am I drop the AC down to 72° then at 2pm it goes up to 82° and stays there until 7pm when it drops down to 76°. Even when I get in the house now it is only 77-79° at 5:45p. At 10p I drop it down to 74° for the night.

My first billing cycle I was $45 less than previous year with about 200kwh more usuage, this last cycle I was almost $65 less than prior year and for the up coming cycle I am on track to be $75 less than prior year.

I kept my original programmable stat and declined the PCT and I work for OGE...lol.

 

[Shadowrider]

So with tomorrow being a "critical rate", that will make it the 5th straight day in a row where it's either at a "high" or "critical" rate. Wonder how long this is going to last?

I'm wondering the same thing. Ironically, I got up this morning early, and logged in and did my work for the day. I office out of the house and am on the computer when I work at home, which is most of the time. I shut everything down at 2:00 and took a nap. I got up and was using my wife's iPad to check into how many hours they are allowed on critical when it lost the internet connection to my router. Then I noticed the ceiling fan was off. The only thing I had on was the fan, router and fridge And they had something blow around my neigborhood.

 

[TJay74]

We are allowed 80 hours of CPP each season per the OCC. We have only used not even 20 so far this season.

 

[dennishoddy]

Its been 20 years or so in the past, but an electronics development company I worked for started cycling power in an effort to save some money. It was a small company with 60 employees. We put all kind of chart recorders, elecrical monitors, blah blah, on our feed from the meter.

Amazingly enough we found we saved power by not touching a thing. Let the metal building/slab/equipment and so on get warm, and the AC never shut off when it was turned back on.


I'm pretty sure now that the way rates set up by the corporation commission, the smart meter system is the way to go.

 

[Jwryan84]

I have the programmable thermostat, no problems here. Does exactly what I tell it to do.

 

[338Shooter]

My four summer bills from 2011 averaged 11, 11, 11, and 10 cents per kWh used. My four summer bills from 2012 averaged 7, 7, 8, and 8 cents per kWh. Had I not been on the program and maintained the same usage it would have cost me $235 more total over the four bills. I'll take that to the bank.

 

[DPI]

My four summer bills from 2011 averaged 11, 11, 11, and 10 cents per kWh used. My four summer bills from 2012 averaged 7, 7, 8, and 8 cents per kWh. Had I not been on the program and maintained the same usage it would have cost me $235 more total over the four bills. I'll take that to the bank.

What did you do to compensate for the lower cost of energy in general? I am a PSO customer and didn't change anything on my account and my rate per kwh dropped from .091534 to .075520, that is a 21% drop. This is due to lower natural gas prices used to make electricity.

 

[338Shooter]

I guess I don't understand the question. I'm not looking at the price per kWh listed on my bill. I'm dividing my actual bill by the kWh used. The rate price per kWh on the bill does not include taxes/fees.

 

[DPI]

I'm curious how much of the rate decrease is due to the Smarthours and how much is due to the lower cost of energy in general.

 

[inactive]

I'm dividing my actual bill by the kWh used. The rate price per kWh on the bill does not include taxes/fees.

Well here's recent bills mine as a PSO customer, just taking the grand total and dividing by my usage.

Bill Date   Price per kWh
08/16/2012	 $0.0801 
07/18/2012	 $0.0800 
06/15/2012	 $0.0809 
05/16/2012	 $0.0892 
04/17/2012	 $0.0944 
03/16/2012	 $0.1010 
02/16/2012	 $0.0986 
01/18/2012	 $0.0892

There's not smart metering or peak billing options for me through AEP PSO that I am aware of. Just throwing some data out there for you to compare to your OGE rates.