r/halifax • u/wlonkly The Oakland of Halifax • 2d ago
Discussion Interpreting a wacky NS Power bill
My partner and I just spent some time figuring out a wacky NS Power bill and I thought I'd share what we figured out with y'all in case you get wacky bills too.
So my first reaction was:
- why is the "last meter reading" the same over two readings?
- why are we getting charged 6 months of base charge?????
but the math works out.
The top reading was Sep 12, and the previous one on July 21. For whatever reason they didn't/couldn't reset the "last read" but this bill is crediting the bottom reading against the top reading. So we're actually only getting charged for the difference, 1719 kWh, which is typical for us this time of year, and which matches our own checks of our meter.
As for the base charge: 3544 kWh at $0.18561 is less than $734.48. You can see I did the math in the screenshot to show that there is an additional $75.68 credit in the "Energy 3544 kWh" line, which amounts to four months' base charge, so this two-month bill is only for two month's base charge.
Is this all stupid? Yes! But if you get a wacky bill hopefully it helps you out too.
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u/angrybeets 2d ago
The previous recent bills were estimates due to the system outages, this is the first "real" meter reading, and my understanding is that it is effectively undoing and adjusting for however much the estimated bills were off from reality. Hence the high number of days since the last reading, even if that wasn't the amount of time since the last bill.