NH — gas 100% increase, electric 50%.

Kansas City metro area. Combined gas and electric with same needs as last year has gone from $275ish to $500ish. I live in a 1700 sq.ft. house, 4 people.

We’re in SE MA, about 30 miles west of Cape Cod.
Last month our bill was $315.
Last year our highest bill was $250.
We have forced hot water,nat gas.
It really hasn’t been that cold around here yet.
I would say an increase of nearly 35%.

My homeowners insurance went up by 230%. Vehicle insurance went up too. Prices for eggs, meat, cereal, are way up just like the price of gas. FPL increases soon.

Not sure this is helpful, but Rural Ontario, Canada here. Our nat gas prices have more than doubled and hydro is up at least 40% year over year. It’s more than a bit shocking when you are on equal billing and think you are getting along ok only to receive a surprise $1,000 bill, but, you know, the energy company has payment plan options, so it’s ok.

Southern area of Colorado here. We have separate gas and electric providers. Electric has gradually increased over time. We get penalized (charged more) if we use over 500 KWH per month. This year gas doubled after the company 2x the price per therm of gas used.

I calculated around 30%. Had to do it based on unit cost. We had a most unusual cold event at Christmas. I mean in Middle TN it was 7 below zero. I’ve lived here for 17 years and that’s a first below zero reading I’ve seen. There’s been an occasional single digit night but it is a one night thing. This lasted 3 days with rain, then ice and then a couple inches or so of snow.

Lots of frozen pipes. Showed which new homes were well built and which were not. Lots of frozen interior sprinkler systems where the pipes were not insulated in the attic area. My coworker had an inch & a half pipe shatter. It will be 6 mos for them to get back in their 2011 house. My old crappy insulated country ranch house fared very well. lol.

But my electric power bill doubled for the month. No furnace, just a hvac heat pump here. It was a chilly few days. I’m curious to see what it looks like for January.

We pay about 12-15 cents per kwh for electricity and a whopping $1.67 per therm for natural gas.. Up until the last year had rarely if ever seen a bill for over $200. Just got largest ever for $280. Among all the issues Sundance notes, here in SC we cant get the natural gas to us. Just don’t have the interstate pipelines.

SW Oregon
Electricity up 12% year over year
Natural Gas up 1% year over year

I’m in a Denver, CO burb. Our nat gas prices doubled – and the Xcel energy rep I spoke with confirmed it.

In central Massachusetts oil heat year to year
winter 2012 $4;676
Winter 2013 $6:230
Winter 2014 $5200
Winter 2015 $1690
Winter 2016 $3056
Winter 2017 $3891
Winter 2018 $4026
Winter 2019 $3231
Winter 2020 $2614
Winter 2021 $3105
To date, winter 2022 $2099

Gasoline
2018 $3:149
2019 $2,858
2020 $1,480
2021 $2,833
2022 $3,665

Electric
My town generates and sells electricity to residents

2020 $921.54
2021. $1,073.15
2022. $924.04

I have kept spreadsheets on these data and more and transferred them to new systems for a long time.

I didn’t know how far back you wanted, but year to year averages my data pretty well

Cheers,
Tom

In the piedmont of NC I haven’t seen an increase to really notice. We do have a Utilities Commission and Duke Energy has to apply for and announce any increase. Mostly hydro and nuclear in this area. I’m sure a hike is coming. So far so good.

As a long time treeper, I have been aware of what was coming. This summer I bought 5 cords of logs from a local man, spent much of the summer bucking and splitting and stacking under roofs. My electric house is costing 95 a month. Thanks you, Sundance. I am also sitting on a huge pile of food, have three semi auto clip fed weapons and hundreds of rounds in clips. I have learned so much from this site. Nothing surprises me anymore.

Cleaned up business file for tax return prep – automobile expense, gasoline and insurance only, up 136% year over year.
Colorado.

It has ben a colder winter in the Carson Valley, Nevada, but the heating bill has more than doubled. My Natural Gas bill for December, 2022, was $520, last year it was $235.

NW Indiana Electricity + 16%, Gas + 65% since January 2022.

They haven’t gone up for me.

And the more you work from home, the more it’s going to cost you in gas and electricity.

Here in good old AZ.
There are a bazillion different charges so I looked at therms/electricity generated.
For natural gas: cost/therm increased 25%
For electricity: electricity generated (used) down 37%.

Here in Southwest Kentucky energy costs are up about 20% on average from prior years. Food is passing this up quickly. NOT getting chickens. Will do without eggs before I get a chicken. I had to take care of those things as a kid and NOT going there. UGH. I will take care of a pig before chicken. Gimme a cord of wood to split before I do chickens UGH.

My electric rate of $0.1097 kwh is the same as it was in 2020. That as far back as I am able to review.

Mid coastal Georgia.

Water bill is the same for the last 5 years.

Behind the Lines here in The People’s Socialist Republic of Illinois: Year-over-year, November 2021 compared to November 2022, electricity, per kwh, up 113%.

North-central WV here. Natural gas (budget plan) has doubled in the past year & we are expecting another increase this spring. My electric bill is running about 20 – 30% higher than last year (use mostly gas in my home), but my parents (all electric) is up nearly 40% over this time last year.

See for yourself.
The cost for the gas over doubled, slowly retreating, still twice as much.
https://www.consumersenergy.com/residential/rates/gas-rates/gas-charges-explained

Electrical is up about 50% from January 2022 and 75% from January 2021.

Heating oil is 4.89/gal as of today. That is about a 50-60% increase from 2021 and 100% from 2020.

Raleigh NC:
Natural gas went up 40% from Dec 2021 Electricity only 12%

Truth to tell, my electricity bill is about the same. Propane went up more than 25% but we only use it for cooking and hot water. What hit me hard are food, gasoline, and feed prices (dogs and three horses).

The horse feed I buy was 17.99/50# bag in late 2020. Today it is $29.99 per bag. Bermuda hay went from $8/ bale to $11 since 2021. Similar increases for dog food.

Everyone knows how eggs have jumped in price, and reduced availability. Same is true for all dairy in my experience. When it’s in stock, the prices are 30% – 50% over last year.

Even humble bird seed is through the roof. The $17.99/40# bag of sunflower seed last year is $32.99 now.

But it’s all worth it, to help plucky little Ukraine save Democracy in the West.

North Central PA
ELECTRICITY 64%
HEATING OIL 69%
GASOLINE 55%
Eggs 149%

We heat by wood alone and I buy it by the log and cut and split it myself to save. but it has gone up thirty-five dollars a cord (4’x 24’x 16″) this year alone. Last year it went up twenty-five dollars a cord. I burn around 5-6 of those per winter which is good for heating a thousand square feet. We cook by natural gas which went up this year by about 10%…Electricity has been relatively consistent although up here in Vermont the rates are said to have gone up…Our winter bill with fans blowing the heat about, really only costs us @ eighty dollars a month…It’s the food costs and taxes that are killing us….We start saving for our property taxes the moment I pay the bill for the current year…and we’re not eating as much red meat any more…We’re seniors on fixed pensions, me and the missus and we don’t travel only to get food and medicine and we certainly don’t go out to eat or anything for that matter, lest it’s to plough out the driveway and around our mailbox so the mailman can bring us the bills….Still waiting for someone carrying balloon’s and a sweepstake check to come down our driveway.

in Maryland locked in for 2 years at 0999.9 per KWH.we heat with coal in a 1910 baseburner in great room kitchen & dining rm. soapstone wood stove in family room.have plenty of wood & extra wood stove because the price of coal up about 40% & 50% for delivery. just paid 9 grand for heat pump with propane backup.At 78 &73 we will keep warm no matter what.

North central Florida, nw of Ocala

In 2022 electric rates at the co-op stayed the same but a natural gas surcharge increased my monthly bill by 18%. The 2021 surcharge was 28%, so overall my electric costs are up almost 50%.

I keep my a/c thermostat at 78 and my heat thermostat at 68. I have a heat pump, as it rarely gets below 35 for more than a handful of nights a year and it’s back up to 60+ by 10am. I moved to FL to be warm so I keep my house where it’s comfortable in shorts and a t shirt inside. When it’s cold outside, I like to keep the temp where I’m comfortable in a light sweater and long pants and can just throw on a coat to go outside.

I have a 500 gal propane tank to power a gas stove and 9kw generator. It pays off when the remnants of hurricanes knock out power for 1-5 days. Propane at last fill in September was $3.48/gal. This was down from $4.66 in March 2022.

There is a lot of industrial building going on here-Ocala is on the only major mid FL highway I-75 and sits right where 75 continues southwest to Tampa and Ft Myers or splits to the FL turnpike to Orlando and on to Ft Lauderdale/ Miami. We have 2 Amazon distribution warehouses, FedEx and UPS hubs, and many more. Truck traffic on 75 is unrelenting.

Regardless of all that, my grocery prices are up 40% or more over the year. An average monthly bill that used to be about $185 is now easily $245 or more. And that’s shopping sales, cutting out expensive items, eating meat 3-4x a week only, etc.

I bought a small hydroponic system and get almost all my salad greens from that. I grow microgreens and sprouts in my kitchen.

I have started gardening again, and I grow cucumbers, squash, zucchini, green beans, peas, onions, garlic and potatoes that supply a lot of my needs in season. I also have citrus trees so lemons, limes, grapefruit and oranges are within reach 5 months of the year. Ditto avocados. Otherwise my food bill would be up 100% easily. I’m about to add 3 hens in another month. I buy in bulk when it makes sense and that helps.

I have a decent pension, a high SS monthly, and no debt, and I am sad for those who have debt as I have no idea how they make it.

And FJB

In Houston, I luckily signed a 3 year contract for electricity, another two years to run.
My natural gas bill has gone from $28 a year ago, to $41 this month.

Hard to know for sure in CA since I’m on a poor person program which buys the rate down roughly 30%. I’d say the rates are up roughly 20% gross over the PDJT era there.

In Oregon it’s much better. When I bought there about eight years ago power was about seven cents per Kwh. Now it’s 7.8 cents per Kwh. Facilities charge was 20 bucks a month and now it’s 26. Combined with moderate weather, not too warm in summer nor cold in winter, electricity is very affordable overall. In the forest there is no gas. Supplemental heat is wood.

We have Consumers Energy for our electric and gas. Since October, each bill has increased by $50 except for this last month’s bill which increased by $66. We’re using less electricity and gas compared to the previous year too.

South Central San Joaquin Valley in CA here.

My natural gas bill has doubled over last year and that is after I turned down the thermostat 3 degrees to 69. I tried turning it down to 68 but I just froze (weigh less than 100 lbs) and just couldn’t get warm again no matter what I put on so bumped it back up to 69 and wear 3 layers. My bill for December was just over $100.

My electricity actually went down by over half. I turned off all lights except the 2 under the cabinet fluorescent lights in the kitchen, where I spend most of my time. I now use a flashlight at night in my house when I go to other rooms because the price of batteries is less than the price of electricity. That helped to offset the massive increase in natural gas. My house electricity last month was less than $19.

I did receive an email from the gas company a week or so ago that said to expect about another 60% increase for next month. Holding my breath to see what it will be.

I have a splitter on my natural gas line in my basement. The main flow of gas goes to my heater and the split side goes to my tankless hot water heater and gas range. Lately my overall consumption of gas is down on my gas bills because we lowered the thermostat a couple of degrees. I am using less gas and my bill has gone up about 30% this year. This makes no sense to me, and I suspect the gas company is arbitrarily cutting the flow rate to my house from the tap to the main line. The hot water heater is performing poorly every time the heater kicks on and starts heating the air flow to the heater fan. This has never happened before and I have had the hot water heater for nearly 5 years. I get the copper heating coils de-scaled every Spring, so I take very good care of both the heater and the hot water heater. This is why I suspect I am not getting enough gas flow to my hot water heater and that the Gas Company has cut my basic flow rate. The problems started, right on schedule, during the month my bill went up. I think, here in Colorado, we are getting a double whammy. Less gas and much higher cost for what we get. Another caveat is that our thermost is at 68 degrees and we can’t adjust it down any further when the temperatures dive to well below zero because our water pipes could freeze if we do. Anyone else notice something like this?

My water bills are up because my usage has been 90% of what it was through the winter last year and my bill is up about 10% instead. The rainfall we get makes most of the difference for me in the Summer months because I have to do a lot of watering of my landscaping and yard. I adjust my sprinklers to less run time when we have had a good rain and good rains are erratic at best around here. So it is hard to compare year over year water use in the summer.

My electric bills are up, but since I am in an Electric Co-op, the increased costs are being placed on them by the producing electric company. I can’t really tell how much the Co-ops costs are increasing from the billings, but down in town, people are saying the producing company has boosted rates by over 25%.

The net result is we are paying between 25 and 35% more for our utility usage than we were a year ago.

In west Central Iowa the Rural Electric Cooperative rates are the same (~16 cents/kw) for the last 3-4 years, I heat with wood and run my diesel truck and tractor on waste vegetable oil (WVO). The cost of farm diesel which I warm my truck up with before switching to WVO has doubled since I last filled all my tanks 3 years ago at $1.65/gal., but I am good for another 3 years now. Plenty of home grown food; vegetables, maple syrup, honey, beef, chicken, fish etc. Having the adventure of my life!

Central Valley, California … natural gas went up 47% from last month to this month. They blamed it on the Midwest storms.

How about eggs going from $4.00 to $19.50? That’s A LOT MORE than 9% INFLATION. ALL we get is LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

40% of U.S. electricity generated comes from the use of natural gas…

The long maligned Rudy Guilliani has this clip from Hunter’s laptop, the part with Hunter bragging about his representing the “f*cking spy chief of China” At the end of the clip Hunter says he and Ho were doing a $4B deal for the largest LNG port in the world. Imagine, as if Biden sending our natural gas to Europe to help cover for his catastrophic war wasn’t enough. Imagine if Biden gave China the keys to all our natural energy resources.

Back in 2014 Hunter tried to sell our Alaskan gas to China, with the deal being abandoned because the numbers didn’t work. Some may recall the Alaskan fields were opened during an energy crisis, not to make the Biden Crime Family rich.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-family-sought-to-make-money-by-giving-china-preferential-access-to-us-energy

That and selling the strategic oil reserve, all while the Biden Crime Family has interest in CEFC Energy…

It’s time for guillotines. 

Oh yes, our electric rates went up 3% at the first of the year, another 1.5% in April and 11% each year thereafter.

Here in Northwest Florida Electric bill went up $20.00 Today the local news is quoted saying,” GAS PRICES ARE RISING AGAIN ” $3.20 for regular now.

Normal January electric bill in Tampa area (Duke Energy) was $400-450. Just got it yesterday – $957.

Southern Iowa here, electric has gone up some but haven’t noticed it much. 1500 s ft berm home with insulated concrete forms. Maybe 130-140 a month electric. Water is 40-50 a month. Exclusively heat with wood and use maybe 2 -3 pickup loads a winter and cut and split all my own off the farm. Raise pigs and yard birds for eggs and to fill freezers. Life is good thanks to the Maker of heaven and earth.

In NC they are hiding the increase by adding Energy fees as a separate notation on the bill. The KWh rate for RS is .093 but now you have to pay an Energy recovery fee that varies. This is in addition to the other taxes state, county and local. Our 501c3 charitable organization had in our Garbage collection no rate increase but the new Energy recovery fees were greater than the original garbage fee. Propane cost per gallon have doubled since May 2022. Bottom line our utility bills have doubled in the past year.

North Georgia here… when Trump left office gasoline was $1.73, now it’s $3.39… last year eggs were $4.00 for the fancy organic free-range types, now they are $8.00… 3 ounce cans of cat food were $0.49 last year, now they are $0.93 each… boneless, skinless chicken breasts were $3.99, now $7.99… whole boneless pork loin formerly $20.00 is now $37.00. I went to the store yesterday… cheese slices, eggs, applesauce, cat food, no meat at all and what would have cost me about $60.00-$65.00 last year now cost me $139.00. At least where I am we still have everything, but as a retiree I now have to shop extremely carefully.

California; both my electrical and natural gas bills have doubled. Remember, the users in CA are on the hook (thank you state legislators) for the billions PGE agreed to in settlements and lawsuits due to their negligence and loss of property and life from several historical fires here. Add to that our regular and now Biden caused increased utility costs and its steep here.

In NH, my electric company received a 110% increase in rates. Best I can figure, propane for heat/cooking rose about 25/30%.

Southeastern Massachusetts, electric bill up $100 from last December/January- at $453 now. Horrible.

Property taxes up $900.00 year. Not to mention Comcast/Xfinity! Food and gas.

A co-worker with AES Ohio seen his electric bill go from $250 to $550. My co-op hasn’t went up but they are warning that they will. My wife asks for a grocery budget increase at least monthly. My propane supplier wanted $3.20 per gallon for summer fill so I installed a larger tank and went with a small family gas supplier for under $2. Guess I’ll have to sell the leased tank ’cause they won’t come pick it up. I’ll most likely work till I drop.

We heard FPL would have a 20% increase this spring. Summer in FL 1910s style?