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(108,506 posts) Thu Feb 14, 2019, 03:28 PM Feb 2019

Cold snap could send electric bills soaring dramatically

EVERETT — The recent winter storms brought more than just snow and ice to Snohomish County. Also expect higher-than-normal electrical bills.

Snohomish County Public Utility District warns that March bills could be twice as high as normal, or even more.

“We see this every year,” said Aaron Swaney, a PUD spokesman. “Just because of the colder temperatures, if you are electrically heating a home you are using a lot of energy. If you keep your home at 70 degrees, you are going to get a pretty big bill.”

The greater the difference between temperatures outside and inside, the harder furnaces have to work and the more energy is used, Swaney said.

And temperatures lately have often reached freezing levels.

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I've lived in Michigan and Wisconsin all my life and noone here would think of shraby Feb 2019 #1

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1. I've lived in Michigan and Wisconsin all my life and noone here would think of

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Thu Feb 14, 2019, 03:36 PM

Feb 2019

having electric heat.

We did live in Washington state for a year or so and had electric heat. The bill was less than 2 days worth of groceries. I couldn't believe it was so cheap when our heating cost in Michigan was around 75 bucks for a tank full of fuel oil.

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