It's not hard to work out what's going to skyrocket your bill. High wattage and high use would do it. Our so called modern lives contribute immensely. Recentl a 32 degree day occurred after some cool weather with evening breezes. On went the air cons in surrounding houses. Really, hardly a reason to turn them on. The ducted refrigerative systems are not for the novice. A 10 outlet can rate at 15 Kw. Use one of them indiscriminately and your power bill will skyrocket. Add a pool pump. A couple of plasmas for the kids. 240v downlighting @50w is prominent.
Also, people are ignorant and expect a free ride. Read a letter in the paper yesterday. Someone complaining that a supply charge is still charged if someone doesn't use power whilst away on holidays or uses less by conserving. I believe in WA we pay approx $30 for 60 days. That's 50c/day for all the infrastructure between the plant and your meter box. And in WA we must have one of the cheapest power at 22c/Kw. They whine coz up to 3 yrs ago we paid 12c. What more do people want?
