| I’m a griddy customer and am still happy with the service after this past week. Griddy is not for everyone not by a long shot but I think it’s getting unfair press on this past week. As a Griddy customer I wanted to share some additional perspective: Griddy’s app provides real-time prices as well as the projected prices for the next couple days. During the past week i was getting notifications every five minutes on the current price. Their interface shows your daily energy usage in terms of kwh as well as price. The whole point of being a customer at griddy is to reduce power use during spikes. They do a great job providing data on when you need to reduce usage. It’s in their interest for customers to have this data. As far as i can tell they only make their money from the $10 monthly fee. High prices don’t help them. In the end we essentially unpowered everything. We charged phones, left our modem/router on and kept our gas furnace set to 59. With blankets it was fine for us and we knew this was a possibility going into this plan (minus the extra difficulty of covid) I think it’s disingenuous to have these articles about high bills without providing how much energy they were consuming and what they were using it on. Even at $9/kwh a $9000 bill would more energy usage in a couple days than we have in a month or more (we live in 4 bed house) |
1,000 kWh seems like plenty for a few days though.