Update! Appliance Research: Chest Freezers
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The decision (and purchase) has been made! In an earlier post (“Appliance Upgrade Research: Chest Freezers”), I checked to see if the chest freezers listed on the EnergyStar site were still offered by each of the manufacturers

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Choosing a new Energy Supplier (pt. 2)

Submitted by on March 5, 2006 – 10:04 pm3 Comments

Shortly after sending out my initial email to the energy suppliers listed on poweryourway.com I landed a new job and this project fell off the table for a little bit. 

I should’ve known that it would only be a matter of time before ConEd caused this topic to came up again. This time, their automatic payment program didn’t draw funds for last months bills, resulting in a decent sized gas/energy bill for this month. Strangely enough, U.S. Energy Savings Corp. sent me an email this morning with their current rates.

While Con Ed is charging me 22.36¢ for the first 250 kilawatt hours and 21.9333¢ for the next 60 KWHs, U.S. Energy Savings Corp. charges a flat rate of 13¢ per KWH of electricity used (however, they do have you sign a 4-5 year contract). So I called in and asked for the paperwork required to sign up. Another nice thing is that they don’t charge the 4% sales tax that ConEd does.

So far I’ve received responses from the following companies:

US Energy Savings: 13¢/KWH for electric and $1.399/Therm for gas – 4 to 5 year fixed rate contract (1.5¢ per KWH estimated use if contract is broken early).

MX Energy: 15¢/KWH (variable rate) for electric and $1.39/Therm for gas.

Columbia utilities: $1.05/Therm (variable rate) for gas — no contracts or commitments.

IDT: 13.8 ¢/KWH for electric and $1.13/Therm (and 7% off delivery charges) for gas – no contracts or commitments.

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