Dear Editor,
I was shocked when I received my last power bill from EPCOR. My electricity doubled from last year, up from 7.5 cents to 15 cents per kWh. We have had a very mild winter this year and I would hate to think what the bill would have been for a cold winter. We are paying $2,000 for electricity per year and we pay $94.50 for delivery charges per month before we get any power at all. Natural gas and coal are so cheap this year to run the generators that utility costs should have come down. I am sure our government gave the utility companies a licence to steal when they removed the regulations.
I found a full-page ad in the Edmonton Journal from ENMAX in Calgary and power for 8 cents per kWh, not to increase for five years. That is half what we are paying to EPCOR.
I phoned ENMAX and all they needed was my name, address and phone number and they did the rest. I could cancel at any time with one month’s notice. It took less than a week to get changed over. I could have saved $100 last month with ENMAX. I would really like to know where ENMAX gets their power? Why can’t EPCOR do the same?
Power is a necessary item, like food, so we should not have to pay GST on it. If costs keep going up we might all freeze to death in a province that has lots of natural resources.
Bert Proft
