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Who is your supplier? It will be listed on page 3 of your bill. Standard Offer or one of the competitors? Supply prices for all suppliers went up considerably in January and I bet that is the biggest factor. That is not CMP's fault, as CMP only delivers power; supply comes from another company and CMP does not get revenue from that; but they are required to bill on the supplier's behalf.

Additionally, have you looked at Energy Manager on your CMP account? You can compare your usage to prior years and see if it has gone up.

What does the kWh used say on your bills?

Welcome to discussion. CMP is fucking everyone. They are the Ticketmaster of (Maine) electric. Everyone knows what’s going on but there’s little that can be done without major bureaucratic intervention

>That's absurd.

I totally agree.

Get verification on this, but I think CMP raised prices around then or the new year. Shouldn’t have doubled but might explain a portion of the increase.

I have a single wide using a pellet stove for heat. All led lighting. Replaced all my element and thermostat on my water heater. Well is on another houses electric. We don’t use a lot of power my bill has been 600 a month since January. I know multiple people who are more the. 3000+ behind right now. It’s getting crazy and only getting worse.

I’ve never only ever taught in Maine and 15 is the sweet spot for 7-12. I consider myself lucky to never have had 30-40 students some teachers have.

Can’t believe anyone would complain about 15 students.

> We live in a society

We're supposed to act in a civilized way!!

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Is your partner mining Bitcoin?

IDK if calling them will do any good.

Is it possible that you did use that much power? Do you have:

A well? - Could be a leaking pipe causing the pump to run a lot.

An electric hot water heater? -Again leaks would increased use.

Space heaters or heat pump? -I know that you said wood heat.

Hopefully you can get it sorted out.

Okay, you're just trolling, got it. That makes the above slightly less funny, because it may not be an earnest belief, but it's still pretty good regardless.

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Dude there's a bunch of teachers at my school who have two jobs during the school year and will work all x-mas break. t's depressing.

I hope you're a troll. Absolutely shocking idiocy. Come into a public school for a week and sub. You need a reality check

Yeah they have it so easy they choose to work service jobs in the summer for funsies!

Go fuck yourself. Come in and sub and see how easy it is. Fucking idiot

Where do they teach and how long have they been teaching? I make 40k, am a teacher. I have a buddy who makes over 100k a year bartending. We live in a society

maybe they can take toesocks' job

Where are those numbers from? I know several teaches making $85k+

Eh it may just be my personal growing up experience. When I was a kid/teen there was nothing to do in town, especially in the winter. So many people turned to drugs and alcohol seemingly out of boredom. I’m not a “country” outdoorsy type of person and never felt like I fit in there. Also it seemed that the city council over the years had cared more about things like random art on the sidewalks than fixing the town proper. However, I will say Belfast has seen quite a lot of development in recent years with the new shipyard and other community projects, so there’s that.

Sorry I took so long to respond, didnt even see that I got a reply to this 😳

Because that's not what the data says. It's flawed from the start by virtue of using averages for its comparison. It lacks nuance and doesn't account for the differences between Southern Maine and Aroostook county. This is the equivalent of a puff piece news story of kittens jumping on trampolines. It doesn't mean anything. It just is. That's why it's useless.

Compared to all of the other states, using the same formulae, Maine teachers have it easier. Why is that a bad thing to point out?