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[marsden_online]

An article in the Herald put me on to Powershop, a new service aimed at letting you buy your household electricity from a variety of suppliers instead of being tied to the one. Basically exposing yourself to the spot market I guess. The idea was interesting enough that I sat down and plugged details of the last 11 months power bills into a spreadsheet* to see if I could save money, taking the current best price available on the PowerShop site. Even optimistically though, I'm better staying on my Meridian Night & Day plan by a few hundred dollars a year.

* because MyMeridian is pretty hopeless. For instance the 'compare your electricity usage' graph only seems to show the current calendar year, which means right now I can see January 2009 vs January 2008 and 11 months that haven't happened yet. Not incredibly useful, ne? I'd like to see the past 12 months, at least, thanks.

While I was at it I popped over to the Consumer PowerSwitch site and fed the details of my last bill in to see what it recommended. I might be able to save ~$80 a year if I switch to Genesis - not sure that's worth it.

Of course Meridian has just notified me their prices are going up and I don't know if PowerSwitch has taken that into account yet, so I might repeat this exercise in a few months.

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[martial-lore.livejournal.com]

I've been looking at that site too, for when I get my own place. I'm thinking it looks interesting, but I think perhaps I'll sign up with one company and see how the bill looks before making any changes like that.