Quest

when did you register your account with BC hydro? are you on smartmeter already?

There's no way you can get 700bux for 2 months, that's like 700bux on 60 days, works out to over 10.3 bux/day. What that typically equates to is about 100kW/hr (tier-2 rate) in 24 hrs, or 4.2kW/hr of usage continuously.

2 things you can do: (1) call them to verify the meter readings; (2) you personally check to see if there' s any parasitic power draw (get a KillaWatt from internet to measure the power consumption of your home appliances) (3) if you have rental properties, check to see if they are running grow-ops.

Personally, I do not see any possibility of you using 4kW/hr (that's 4,000watts per hour, you know!!!)

To give you an example: a family of 4, hot water heater tank and hydronic heating on natural gas, I typically use approx. 17kW/day avg,  or 700watts/hr typically, that includes 3 laundry runs a week, home cooking, etc.

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Quest

In all fairness: you shall call them to coordinate with a meter reading, you don't have the authority to call on a third party to verify your meter readings in this case (if memory serves)...

https://www.bchydro.com/accounts ... /meter-reading.html

When calling them, make sure you get the guy/gal's name when they pick up the phone, so as to keep track of them. Some of them lazy ass would give you a lazy response just to brush you off their shoulders, so by taking down their names, that would raise their awareness that you might report to their supervisor if disputes arise, or you aren't very happy with their attitudes, etc.

My house is 2000sqft as well, and I get an average bill for the given house size/activity.

Quest

renovation equipment such as drills (mostly on cordless nowadays anyways), etc. rarely use 4000watts/hr.


Check all your electric heater to see if they have been unintentionally/intentionally left on, or due to faulty thermostat settings or something like that.

My friend's parent experienced similar issues (abeit less though, around 280/2 mnths) since he and his brother moved out of an old, 45yr old 1600sq ft house (mainly natural gas heating)......after much investigation (*by my friend of course, I'm his technical advisor), they found their parent's bedroom has a wall-base electric heater left on at all times (without even knowing)....so once that turned off, electricity bill plummetted to around 80/2mnths

Quest

for electric baseboard heating or forced air furnace, I'd typically turn it down if the house is vacant for over 8hrs.  Anything less than 6 hrs, it's up to you.

reason being that electric and forced air heating takes shorter time to "ramp up" the temperature, unlike hydronic water heating systems, which take 4hrs of "preheating" before they really begin to heat up the house.

Also: consider investing in a programmable thermostat for baseboard heating (those 5+1+1 are fine), for you can set it to drop a few degrees during daytime (when the house is vacant, etc.) and then by 6pm or so, it will "ramp up" again to regular settings when family members gradually return to the house during dinner time, etc.

Depends on how "cold" you can tolerate, sometimes, dropping 4C or more maybe a bit tough on the rest of the family members. Try 3C first.

Lastly: what's your regular temp setting? 18C is "guai-low's norm whereas others (chinese), typically has it a bit higher (around 20C or higher).

Again: the higher the temp setting you set during normal hours, the more electricity to heat up your house.

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