assuming you dont do community solar... what do your electric bills look like the past year?

Hah haw! Channeling the Simpsons for ya enjoy those solar farms suckers! I gotta start my own what a racket

i think teachers in washington should be paid more too actually

right exactly. You just have to hope that you are saving somehow. Otherwise you're just paying more to support green energy (which is also okay, just be transparent about it)

Orvis and Patagonia have flyfishing gear for large and small women. Outdoor Research doesn't have flyfishing gear but they have plus size winter gear and some on sale right now.

I have the same problem as a petite woman. Unisex gear never fits right, and if I'm lucky enough to find something in a ladies size, it's poor quality and only available in pink, peach, or lavender.

I had the same reaction when we went there! I was expecting some tiny little place that looked more like “someone’s hobby” rather than a legit museum. The place is fantastic, and the collection is massive! That room of drawers next to the gift shop - SO fun to go through.

I had this exact same issue. I called nautilus and here was the explanation.

The solar company provides you “credits” those credits get applied to the CMP bill and what isn’t used (or accepted) you still have to pay community solar for in a separate bill just to them. They said this would be changed within a few years but honestly it wasn’t sold to us this way and I’m fairly unhappy with it. Not only do I owe our overlords CMP whatever the want to charge I’m also in the hole for what the solar company has credited me, all for my benefit I’m sure.

There are so many hidden gems in Maine (pun intended) (: the Dorr Museum of Natural History in Bar Harbor is small but with some really beautiful taxidermy/dioramas and articulated skeletons. highly recommend if you're into visiting small museums!

There is a bunch of cameras, so there must be a Chitwood nearby.

Rough with or without frame. If you're fitting the opening a solid core door can be used...carefully. That said it's a slab, still needs install

I think Hanson’s Hardware store might have them

Just whipped up some numbers for you, thanks for making me look back at it. My house is 1,000 SF.

Average Cost Per Month:

2018: $56

2019: $56

2020: $70

2021: $82

2022: $93

Average Cost Per Month (past 6 months, CMP+Nautilus):

$129 ($79 from CMP and $50 from Nautilus)

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Feb 2023 was an outlier with $167 from CMP and $83 from Nautilus

Sometimes people in your community know better than a quick google search will yield. Even if it’s easily googleable, it’s really not a big deal. You’re coming off as deranged here for caring that much.

Did OPs parents not teach them how to use use Google to answer simple questions?

How much are you paying in total? How big is your house?

Thanks, I had initially disregarded them because sizes only ran up to XL but I see their XL is a generous 18-20 so that might work!

Thanks! I'll check it out

Something must be running during that 4am hour. Selectively turn off stuff in the breaker panel and try to find out.

Turn off the electric hot water heater (if you have one) before bed, see how everything looks that next morning. Turn it back on at a recorded time and check the usage.

Then try with the range/stove, and other big appliances.

You’re at the wrong place. All the schools post openings on Serving Schools. You can set up alerts. Lots of jobs. So many jobs.

That specific 10am example, no one showered that morning and no appliances had been run except for the coffee machine at 730. The laundry was washed the day prior waiting to be folded.

We are in a single family home.

In the evenings we cook dinner, give our baby a bath, wash dishes, and shower ourselves. That shows a moderate increase that correlates with the Energy Manager.

ETA- the spikes I’m talking about are sustained usage of 4-5kwh. There is no correlation, especially the recurring 4am one.

Our usage has remained double our normal amount since July of last year. Nothing about our lifestyle has changed and all of appliances have been checked.

High usage during the 10am hour after your husband got ready for work and you’ve just done laundry— washer, dryer, hot water heater recovering?

No other units/tenants in the building that could be sharing your electricity?

What if you do something energy intensive at a certain time of the day, like run your oven for 20 minutes? Are you able to see the spike in Energy Manager?

a great tool that people should really access more!

Quite possible. Talked about his meter being read, refuses to look up his hourly usage, then deletes his post when everybody asks him about his energy usage.

I don't feel fucked by CMP, I feel fucked from the supply companies like NextEra and Electricity Maine. The PUC has approved rate increase, after rate increase over the last year totaling over 120%! Why would we take on a multibillion dollar debt when the seizure would still leave us vulnerable to the companies who are responsible for over 60% of our bill and unapologetically jacking our rates left and right?