get ready wallyworld

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

get ready for this is the month electric rate increase again.....moving us closer to cl & p and UI......Spring is around the corner, time for those light bulbs to appear at you door step...wallingford's answer to conservation....

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

see today’s record journal…..the electric division keeps the rates hikes coming....we will past cl & p in time.......now is the time for our town leaders to start thinking wind and solar.......time for our town leaders to start thinking out of the box a little.....26,000 customers....a budget of 80 million....pierce power plant that is not under our control....trash to energy plant that is not under our control....ppl plant again not under our control....so what is under the towns control....looks like not much....just keep increasing the rates....the article said it all.....they must maintain a certain level of revenue...with less consumption (conservation) the rates go up....so what’s the point of conservation.....if they have a level of revenue that must be kept then there is no point in conservation…..so all our efforts to save money is useless because they will just raise the rates ……

[Snakebite]

They need to downsize, the same as every company that has revenue issues.
Utilities are right up there with government and the "entitlement" mentality.

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

They need to downsize, the same as every company that has revenue issues.
Utilities are right up there with government and the "entitlement" mentality.

why downsize when all you have to do is raise rates.....couple of bucks here couple of bucks there....no one appears to care....i have been to the public utilities control meetings....they don;t care about the public...we are just a means to an end......

[Bustopher Jones]

they don;t care about the public
Why should they be any different than the Town council or the Mayor? (Keep in mind that the PUC Commissioners are appointed by the Mayor.)

In his letter to the Editor (“Wallingford Largess”), Vinnie McManus touched on an attitude that seems to pervade the mentality of Wallingford government. Over the years, they “…by their vote gave notice that they do not care how bad things are for the taxpayer.” We as taxpayers of Wallingford have been repeatedly hammered with tax increases over the last several years, and are likely to once again face another increase in a year when many have lost or are fearful for their jobs, others have been driven to the verge of bankruptcy by their expenditures for energy last year, and still others had their wages frozen by their employers due to the tough economic times. But our elected representatives don’t seem to care; their indifference was clearly expressed by Mayor Dickinson some time ago, when he said that some will be able to bear the increased tax burden while others will not. (The inference here was that it was simply too bad for those who could not.) Now, we are being hammered with electric rate increases as well.

In these desperate economic times, one would have hoped that our local legislators and leaders would recognize, as the Governor of Connecticut has done, that the people simply cannot take on any additional burden at this point, and that government must make do with what it has and pursue productivity and efficiency improvements to provide the same services at the same price. But apparently this message has not filtered down to the local level; the recent news from multiple fronts in Wallingford clearly indicates that it will be spend as usual, increase as usual, and just pass the burden along to the taxpayers and ratepayers.

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

what the town's people need to do is vote them all out of office...they have been there to long....i mean every one of them....not one of them is doing the town any good these days.....its time we have fresh ideas and new energy in this town.....

[okgoagain]

I think the site iof the old silversmith is looking nice like downtown murdin- they should knock down the whole lousy town

[Modica]

I think the site iof the old silversmith is looking nice like downtown murdin- they should knock down the whole lousy town
Level it and fill with water so people from Cheshire can take their boats out for a sail. Ahoy Matey!

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

I think the site iof the old silversmith is looking nice like downtown murdin- they should knock down the whole lousy town

do mean muriden or wallingford or both.....

[okgoagain]

do mean muriden or wallingford or both.....


I meant wallyworld- useless place. murdin is half down already- and falling further

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

useless....are you kidding.....where else are you muriden slugs going to do all your shopping and eating...wallyworld is the place to be

[Modica]

useless....are you kidding.....where else are you muriden slugs going to do all your shopping and eating...wallyworld is the place to be
Yeah it is the place to be if you eat like a pig and look like one too. Never eat at those kind of places. Watching fatties stuff food into their mouths is so disgusting.

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

you need a hug......

[Modica]

you need a hug......
Ha ha. As long as you look good, Hug Away.

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

after reading some of the minutes from the public utilities meetings it strikes me that we in wallingford are in for a rough ride with our electric rates...soon we will pass UI and Northeast utilities...Their thinkin at the electric division is that they never said that the publics rates would decrease...through conservation only your comsumption would decrease....wallingford electric is not protecting the people of this town from large rate increases....the minds running the division have no plans to make wallingford a little morre self efficient with regards to electricity....they have no plans for solar or wind generation...their plan is to keep buying power on the open market....its time to replace the puc board and get some fresh ideas....what are they doing with the energy fund monies.....light bulbs still?

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

Wallingford is in line to receive 197,000 dollars from the energy fund....what will they do with it.....more compact light bulbs.....expand their energy audits....or just blow it on studies.....my suggestion is to take that 197,000 dollars, match it with town funds and install a solar system ontop of one of the schools.....lets see wallingford show by example that it cares about alternative energy sources.....i have not seen anything from our electric division of thinking toward the future...the $10,000,000.00 dollar investment(33 percent) in the 50/5 plan uses generators that use fossil fuels.....now thats forward thinking.....50 / 5 plan required that wallingford pay for 33 percent because we us 33 percent of the power.....yet we are only getting 20 percent of the generators....now thats a deal....how can the town loose with that kind of thinking......time for our town leaders to step up and set a clear goal for this town to make use of more alternative sources to produce the electricty needs of this town.

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

get ready good people of wallingford...electric rates are going up again...they call it the summer increase....again the town does what it wants.....the puc of wallingford canceled their meeting for may 5...gave notice and all that....then they have a meeting may 6th...no notice...this is not the first time that the puc has done this.....

why tell us (the public) anything...they do what they want when they want without regard for the public....they know best...

they are the appointed ones....so you cannot replace them....so what the point....

why have a puc, why have wallingford electric....its name only....they don;t generate any power....they control nothing with regard to electric power.....what the point....they want to spend over 10 million in fossil fuel generators.....for what....take that 10 million and spend it on renewable energy sources....but sadly no....why....because the appointed one and the management of the electric division have no interest in alternative sources....i have not seen any plans for renewable electric sources....

the motto of the electric division is:
conservation will only decrease your consumption it will not lower your
electric bill......
in most people;s minds lower consumption equalls lower costs....not in the wallingford electric world.....

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

a read of the PUC minutes had some lines in there that explain a lot of what going on with our electric division....

Public Itilities Commission meeting Tuesday May 19, 2009....

"In electric there as an increase in peak demand and a decrease in the kilowatt hour sales. nunn asked whether the diesels should have been started to keep the peak from occurring. adair stated that the diesels are no longer dispatchable by cmeec for that purpose. wed(wallingford electric division) has no resources that we are allowed to start on our own behind the meter. the diesels (since december 2008) were bid in to the locational ford reserve market along with pierce and are receiving $14 per kw per month"

one....explain how peak demand goes up in april or may....during these months we use less power.....how is peak applies.....

two...again this shows that wed is nothing more than a middle man....they control no generation.....

three....what is the "locational ford reserve"

four.....is that 14 dollars per KW per month running or not running....


just another example of how nothing is in wed control.....

[Common Sense]

useless....are you kidding.....where else are you muriden slugs going to do all your shopping and eating...wallyworld is the place to be

Wallingford has become over built and downtown looks like a mini ESPN. Route 5 is running a close second to the Berlin Turnpike. It is a shame that what was once a beautiful town with farm lands is no more. Where is there to shop in Wallingford unless you are counting WalMart? As far as restaurants nothing compares to Luce in Hamden or the restaurants in New Haven, West Hartford or the shoreline unless you like dining in the 'chain' restaurants that are located in Wallingford. No thanks.

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

has anyone had an energy audits done in wallingford through Connecticut Ressources Inc......if so..... how did it go and how much were you able to reduce your energy consumption.....i am thinking of requesting one of the audits and would like some feedback......what did they look, what records you need and how long did the audit take......was it worth you time and effort.......thanks

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

Record Journal below the fold headline
"New administrative position could bring big savings"
after reading the article i don;t get it....where are the savings....they are going to fill a position that has been vacant for 2 years....so where are the savings.....

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

so now the school want to replace lighting...for $200,000.00....article claims pay back in 2.4 years.....just under $84,000.00 in energy savings per year...i don;t believe it.....upon a little research the payback perior id 5-7 years....at at that i don;t see it.....32 watt t12 and a 32 watt t8 is still 32 watts....where is the savings?

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

have a happy 4th

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

once again the WED (wallingford electric division) has chosen to commit resources to a project that a year ago when asked about had no interest and today there is a big rush to push the funds toward CMEEC…..100,000.00 is just the beginning…the pilot project is more like 10 million with 3.5 being Wallingford’s share….to what is smart metering and tou (time of use) pricing and how will it effect the large majority of us….smart metering and tou is a way for people both residential and retail to have the opportunity to lower their energy costs….this is done through what time of day that you use the power and at what rate you would pay for that power…..as it stands now if WED is following the guidelines outlines by CMEEC peak use would be between 7:00 am and 11:00 pm……so if you wanted to save a couple of bucks in electricity you would have to use the power after 11:00 pm…..and limit the power usage during the other hours…..

what does this do for the average residential customer….my guess raises the electricity costs….the bulk of the residents and retail customers of this town will not benefit from tou pricing as tou pricing is geared toward the hours after 11:00 pm and before 7:00 am when most or us are sleeping…..

what was not published on the paper for the past 2 articles about this project were the projected rates…..right now my guess is that the rates charged are averaged out and that tou rates will be higher for the majority of us consumers….

again what is this town doing for the residents with regard to renewable energy sources…I am sure there are many residents that would love to install solar electric, solar hot water and geo thermal if the WED would partner up through the conservation fund and share the costs…..but as of now there are no plans for this…..WED conservation thought process is compact light bulbs and energy audits…..what we get from the WED is more of the same…..

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

in case you all missed it wallingford electric raised our rates again....so for this year the rates are up just short of 19%.......WED is looking out for our interests aren;t they.... so over the past years (4) our rates are up just short of 100 percent.....at this rate wallingford will pass out cl&p and ui......where are my compact bulbs...you missed this year....i know instead of bulbs your wasting the conservation funds on home energy audits at over 400.00 per audit.....we need better thinking on the PUC.....

[CMNSNC]

Several years ago I took a tour of the new natural gas turbine generators that were installed near the Pierce generating plant.
According to what I was told, these were to go on-line during peak usage.
There are five of them and I don't remember what their generating capacity is.
Deisel generators seem to be a very expensive way to provide electricity.
Bought any Deisel lately? Home heating oil is cheaper than Deisel and we who heat our homes with that stuff know what that costs.
I guess I must have missed the meeting discussing the new generators.
I'll look into it and inform myself.

[iwantwallingfordbetter]

today's rj paper wallingford section "No rate hike in proposed electric division budget".......really.....why not a rate reduction for a change....article in the hc stated that 2008 was the peak for generation costs for electric...since then the costs have dropped by 52% with the wholesale costs dropping by 48%...while the costs for the wallingford electric customers have risen every year since 2005.....i think that we are due for a rate reduction and not a rate hold......how much money does wallingford want to make off the rate payers of wallingford....by not lowering our rates they make more and thus the town make more.....in the article mr hendershot states that sales are down by about 4.97 percent...and that electricity transmission and distribution taxes and risen 4.5 percent.....one has nothing to do with the other...so i don;t see the connection....again there should be a rate reduction not just a hold.....

[oldnickel]

I think the union is at fault.

[WlfdTaxpayer]

I think the union is at fault.

More specifically, I think it is the teachers' union's fault!! :D

[oldnickel]

I was taking about the electric rates. surprised Obama wasn't blamed. after all, as the repubs say, this is just a market correction - by people manipulating the market.

[CMNSNC]

what the town's people need to do is vote them all out of office...they have been there to long....i mean every one of them....not one of them is doing the town any good these days.....its time we have fresh ideas and new energy in this town.....

They won't allow term limits, so we'll do it for them!
That also applies to Hartford and most of all Washingon!:mad:

[oldnickel]

The only one of real importance is the Mayor. all the rest have very little to now power anyway.