The May Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) bill arrived today. Just in time for me to answer a couple of questions that R. left in Comments the other day at the post regarding CFL Bulbs. This bill is of interest because it reflects our first GreenPower Premium charge.

Susan and I have been in this Eugene area home since March 2005. We haven't utilized EWEB’s residential energy management programs, yet, and we average KWH use per month is 933.34. We were just about average last month; we used 964 KWH and were charged an extra $9.64 to support GreenPower. We used 1114 KWH the month before. Our bill is only $3.00 lower this month because of the premium charge and an increase in the cost of water. I haven't figured out why our KWH use one year ago was only 587. I am going to attribute our increase this year to keeping Susan warmer. Since we have now turned off the heat, next month's bill will provide a new measurement to help confirm or deny this hypothesis.