This one has always struck me as being inconsistent.
Credit cards: Here's how much you used, we'll take the money next moth.
Water bill: Here's how much you used, we'll take the money next month.
Gas bill: Here's how much you used, we'll take the money next month.
Electricity bill: Here's how much you used, we've taken the money NOW.
Electricity Bill Timing
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Not with Tepco.adamu wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2024 12:49 am This one has always struck me as being inconsistent.
Credit cards: Here's how much you used, we'll take the money next moth.
Water bill: Here's how much you used, we'll take the money next month.
Gas bill: Here's how much you used, we'll take the money next month.
Electricity bill: Here's how much you used, we've taken the money NOW.
The “August” bill covers a period from mid-July to mid-Aug.
Then is 振替ed out of my account around the end of the August.(I thought it might be the last business day but it isn’t..)
This laid back approach is far more evident when they need to visit and certify a new home solar installation.
I was given a mid-August inspection date for an install that completed 3 months earlier. This mid-August date was unceremoniously snatched away when they remembered they were having Obon(true. Thats the actual reason I was given.) and I got a date of end Aug. 3.5 months after they started receiving my surplus electricity. You’ll be happy to know at least they backdate the payments I’ll receive following the rigorous 8 minute “inspection” by the unaccompanied child they dispatched.
You’d be wrong of course. Because they don’t backdate to when they started consuming my surplus. I plan to syphon an equivalent amount from a lamppost..
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Similar story for us. We moved in in July with the solar panels already installed, but the "contract processing" didn't complete until February the next year when we finally started receiving payments!
Re: Electricity Bill Timing
Huh, maybe it's a Kyuden thing.
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I am also a Kyuden user.
You should sign up with their Kirei Life Service:
https://www.kireilife.net/apps/portal/p ... alRule.jsp
I can view my electricity usage by the day, even by the hour, and see exactly how much my bill is at the time of logging in.
It's very useful for keeping a track of your usage, and also allows you to comapre this year's usage with the year before.
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That is the old one.Roger Van Zant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:05 am You should sign up with their Kirei Life Service:
https://www.kireilife.net/apps/portal/p ... alRule.jsp
The new one is https://my.kyuden.co.jp/
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They are both current. The one I linked to above still works (just checked it).adamu wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:52 amThat is the old one.Roger Van Zant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:05 am You should sign up with their Kirei Life Service:
https://www.kireilife.net/apps/portal/p ... alRule.jsp
The new one is https://my.kyuden.co.jp/
Investments:
Company DB scheme ✓
iDeCo (Monex) eMaxis Slim All Country ✓
新NISA (SBI) eMaxis Slim All Country ✓
Japanese pension (kosei nenkin) ✓
UK pension (Class 2 payer) ✓
Company DB scheme ✓
iDeCo (Monex) eMaxis Slim All Country ✓
新NISA (SBI) eMaxis Slim All Country ✓
Japanese pension (kosei nenkin) ✓
UK pension (Class 2 payer) ✓
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oh Tepco can do this.Roger Van Zant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:05 amI am also a Kyuden user.
You should sign up with their Kirei Life Service:
https://www.kireilife.net/apps/portal/p ... alRule.jsp
I can view my electricity usage by the day, even by the hour, and see exactly how much my bill is at the time of logging in.
It's very useful for keeping a track of your usage, and also allows you to comapre this year's usage with the year before.
You can even create a profile of your nuclear(if only..) family to compare against others...
Our other parental unit is evolving into a Penguin and in summer we house two Polar bears.. A frozen mist often creeps from under their bedroom doors like Jean-Michel Jarre* is about to appear on stage!
Then Tepco kindly compare that with a "似た家族". Which appears to be a family in which one parent works 9-9 at an office seven days a week returning only to wash clothes by hand and cook on charcoal, whilst their kids are out from 6:30am-11:30pm with various activities. We should assume the other parental unit works on an oil rig.
I say this with some confidence because after installing a decent sized Solar array and a large battery we STILL consumed more kwh than "they" did in July...
*Complain all you like this is about as topical as I'm gonna get..
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Re: Electricity Bill Timing
Are you also hoarding old 500 yen coins?Roger Van Zant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 7:14 amThey are both current. The one I linked to above still works (just checked it).adamu wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:52 amThat is the old one.Roger Van Zant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:05 am You should sign up with their Kirei Life Service:
https://www.kireilife.net/apps/portal/p ... alRule.jsp
The new one is https://my.kyuden.co.jp/