Use CMP Energy Manager to look at usage by the hour. Identify patterns in usage like what times of day there is high consumption. That’s the benefit of smart meters.

Once you know when the high usage is happening, you can backtrack and think “what might be running during that hour?”

Here I am thinking my 230$ bill is alot. It was 80 three years ago.

Good luck, they won’t listen or care. I am hearing from so many people that their electric bill has jumped $1000. Our oldest has an $800 electric bill and has no idea why. I’m wondering how many people have smart meters? There was a huge debate about them years ago.

1 thing you can do is seek advice from the Maine Public Utitities Commision, in addition to CMP directly. Record what CMP tells you.

You don’t seem to be responsive/wanting to learn more about your energy consumption.

If they aren’t reading your meter, check if the PDF/paper version of your bill states “estimated usage.” The vast majority of homes are on Smart Meters that don’t need to be read.

If you are being billed for 2000kwh, find out if that’s an estimated billing or actual usage. Energy Manager can show you all of that in a few clicks. ✌️

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So…check your hourly usage and find out what times during the day there is excessive usage. Look for patterns and go from there.

Who is your energy supplier? CMP delivers the energy but you can choose different suppliers and some are above the .17 per Kilowatt which is the cost of the standard offer (my friend was using a different supplier and they were being charged .40-.60 per kilowatt and had a bill of like $500). I would check who your supplier is and see if there is a lower rate

https://www.wmtw.com/article/get-ready-pay-more-power-maine/41983953

Standard offer went up and supply increased. That’s all I meant.

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Look at CMP Energy Manager, and look for patterns in your usage. What hours are you using a lot of energy? Is it like this every day? Only on weekdays?

Space heater? Secondary old fridge/freezer? Identifying patterns in your usage will help you reduce it.

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Meetup.com here in NJ there are dozens of hiking groups if not hundreds.

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If there's space for one more, I'd be interested in joining the party. Either Lucky Pigeon or Pint & Pawn be cool with me.

Have you looked at the amount of KWH being used per cycle? Tried to identify any mysterious increase?

Space heaters? Old freezer in the basement that’s super inefficient? Sadly I don’t think Versant offers hourly usage data like CMP does via Energy Manager.

Edit: I think Versant has this in the Bangor Hydro District.

https://www.versantpower.com/my-account/

You can also access daily and hourly usage information from the electric meter at your home through our website at My Account.

Absolute truth.

People also pretend that CMP Energy Manager doesn’t exist. Or that there’s no way to look at hourly usage charts and figure out what in their home is using so much energy during a certain hour.

https://www.cmpco.com/wps/portal/cmp/smartenergy/understandyourusage/energymanager/

Folks, look at your usage by the hour. Look for patterns, look for hours that you are using many KWH. Running a space heater during that time? Hot water tank recovering? Ancient freezer using a ton of energy around the clock?

Have fun. Never in the history of r/maine has anyone who complained about their electric bill posted their actual usage.

Our school pulls from 3-4 towns along the coast and still only has like 40 kids per grade.

We have heat pump and heat pump water heater. 1400 sq feet. No gas or wood at all. We only pay 400 on bad months. So I have no idea how you spend that much

Use CMP Energy Manager to find out when the bulk of your usage is happening. You can see an hourly breakdown of usage, then try to think about what devices are using energy during that time.

https://www.cmpco.com/wps/portal/cmp/smartenergy/understandyourusage/energymanager/

I remember that car! It was always at the Tim Hortons on western ave. It made me laugh.

Our bill went up about $300 a month and we didn’t change anything in our power usage routine. Versant is our power company. It’s terrible

CMP prices have not increased in three years, but supply prices have shot thru the roof in that time. That is not CMP's fault; they have been out of the supply side since 2000.