{"id":62,"date":"2006-01-25T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T15:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/building.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/23\/choosing-a-new-energy-supplier-in-nyc\/"},"modified":"2006-01-25T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T15:12:36","slug":"choosing-a-new-energy-supplier-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a new Energy Supplier in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With each bill, Con Edison (my current gas and electric supplier), includes a customer newsletter. One of the constant features of this newsletter is Con Edison&#8217;s PowerYourWay program (<a title=\"Con Edison Power Your Way Program Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poweryourway.com\" target=\"_blank\">poweryourway.com<\/a>). Power Your Way encourages current Con Edison customers to contact other Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)\u00c2\u00a0in the area for pricing\/service.<\/p>\n<p>Why do this now? For the past three months, the bills from Con Edison have been getting more erratic and less accurate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>informing me of late payments (I&#8217;m signed up for their automatic withdrawal service);<\/li>\n<li>bills for the same unit during the same time period yet different amounts due; and<\/li>\n<li>bills that only include gas OR electric (not both, the way they have been for years).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of last night, I&#8217;d had enough. I visited PowerYourWay.com, entered in my zip code info and got the list of providers in my area. While not all of them deliver both gas and electric, I figured paying two bills for two services wouldn&#8217;t be such a bad thing (hey, I&#8217;m doing it with cable <a title=\"Time Warner Cable \" href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnyc.com\">internet<\/a> and <a title=\"Vonage Voice Over IP Telephone Service\" href=\"http:\/\/vonage.com\/\">vonage<\/a>). Last night, around midnight, I sent an email to these providers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Electricity and Gas Providers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"EConnergy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.econnergy.com\/\">EConnergy<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Energy Company, Inc<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Hudson Energy Savings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonenergyservices.com\/\">Hudson Energy Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"MX Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mxenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MX Energy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"U.S. Energy Savings Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energysavings.com\/NY\/home.htm\">U.S. Energy Savings Corp.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Electricity Only Providers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Constellation New Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newenergy.com\/\"><strike>Constellation New Energy<\/strike><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(commercial only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gas Only Providers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Columbia Utilities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiautilities.com\/\">Columbia Utilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ferrantino Fuel Corp.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ffcenergy.com\/\">Ferrantino Fuel Corp.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Intelligent Energy (Ive got gas)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligentenergy.org\/\">Intelligent Energy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Metro Energy Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metroenergy.com\/\">Metro Energy Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Olympic Power, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.olympicgas.com\/\">Olympic Power, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sterling planet\" href=\"http:\/\/sterlingplanet.com\/\">Sterling Planet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Stuyvesant Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuyfuel.com\/stuy\">Stuyvesant Energy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Email Text:<\/p>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<div>I was hoping you would be able to provide me your rates for gas and electric (if applicable)\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0 Queens (zip code). The following information is the resource consumption from my most current bill:<\/div>\n<div><strong>Electric use <\/strong><\/div>\n<div>For 41 days: 500 <a title=\"What is a Kilawatt hour?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kwh\" target=\"_blank\">KWH<\/a> (meter reading difference was 50 with a 10x multiplier)<\/div>\n<div>Basic Service Charge: $15.63<\/div>\n<div>First 341.7 KWH @ 20.9131 cents: $71.46<\/div>\n<div>Next 158.3 KWH @ 20.4891 cents: $32.42<\/div>\n<div>Tax @ 4%: $4.74<\/div>\n<div><strong>Total Electric Charges: 123.14<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Gas Use <\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Total CCF used in 32 days &#8211; 114\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0(x 1.033 therm conversion): 118 <a title=\"What is a therm?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Therm\" target=\"_blank\">therms<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Basic Service Charge: $14.49 (includes first 3.2 therms)<\/div>\n<div>Next 92.8 thems charged at 59.6767 cents: $55.38<\/div>\n<div>Next 22.0 therms charged at 42.9091 cents: $9.44<\/div>\n<div>Adjust Factor: 123.1186 cents: $145.28<\/div>\n<div>Tax @ 4%: $8.98<\/div>\n<div><strong>Total Gas Charges: $233.57<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>At the bottom the bill notes that it includes a gas supply cost of 124.8 cents per them.<\/div>\n<div>I would appreciate more information about the rates and plans that [company name] can offer.<\/div>\n<div>Kind regards,<br \/>\n&#8220;<a title=\"Small Time Landlord\" href=\"http:\/\/building.wordpress.com\">building.wordpress.com<\/a>&#8221; =P<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Technorati Tags:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Energy\" rel=\"Energy Supplier\">Energy Supplier<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Con%20Ed\" rel=\"Con Edison\">Con Edison<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/NY\" rel=\"New York\">New York<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Small+Time+Landlord\" rel=\"tag\">Small Time Landlord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With each bill, Con Edison (my current gas and electric supplier), includes a customer newsletter. One of the constant features of this newsletter is Con Edison&#8217;s PowerYourWay program (poweryourway.com). 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