Costs charged to us by your local lines company Wellington Electricity Lines have changed. Wellington Electricity Lines distributes electricity from the national grid through their network to homes and businesses around your area.
As a result the price you pay for your electricity from Contact will change from 1 April 2014. So your next bill after this date will reflect your new price.
Please refer to the table on the following page for details.
The table on the reverse of this letter is as follows (modified by me to be more suited to typing in this forum):
Rate Type Current Rates New Rates
Daily Charge 112.1 cents/day 201.8 cents/day
All Day Economy 23.51 cents/kWh 21.287 cents/kWh
Nice that the kWh rate is coming down a little, but a near doubling of the daily charge - AYFKM?? The daily charge currently makes up $34.75 of a 31 day invoice. That's about to blow out to $62.56...
My area, as referred to in the letter, is Tawa. Anyone else in the Wellington region, not just Tawa, got letters like this from their electricity supplier? (whether Contact or not)
I think this is going to need a bit of digging into to find out how much the price has "changed" and how much margin is being applied...