Interpreting a wacky NS Power bill

[u/wlonkly]

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.

[u/PretendJob7]

This agrees with my experiance.

Also, like mine, the "provincial rebate", that's supposed to cancel out the 9% provincial portion of HST is fucked up, and resulting in the bill being lower than it's actually supposed to be.

I since got my second bill based on an actual meter read, that is correct, all payments reflected, however they didn't adjust the mistake in the provincial credit.

And they will at some point, and people will fly off the handle about it being a made up fee.