No More Mail Duke Energy

I get more mail, both e and snail, from Duke energy than I need. Twice a Month I get notifications about my energy usage. The paper version gives me a 12 month graph of my energy usage and compares my house to an energy efficient house and an average house. Since I live in an 80 year old house I assume it is not built to be the most efficient house given my old windows and not smart wiring, but I often meet or exceed the rating for an efficient house.

My graph has remain very consistent for as long as I have been getting this information. My usage goes up the most during the hottest months due to running air conditioning. But year over year tends are identical.

In the middle of the month I get an email telling me if I am on track to use about what is expected. I am not sure how I would change my life if I needed to cut down my electrical usage for the last two weeks of the month. I can’t unplug my refrigerators. I certainly am not going to go around and unplug all my TVs when I am not watching them. Lamps are all going to stay plugged in. I am still going to charge my electronics.

I could bump the air up a degree, but I would prefer to stay married. Since I have direct withdrawal to pay my bill I have never been late let alone defaulted. So I would like Duke to save heir money and stop mailing me the graph showing me I am better than average if not sometimes efficient. And as for the mid month update on how my usage is going, perhaps only send it if I use wildly more than I have ever used before.

The only thing Duke should email me is my actual bill. All this information can be included in that and stop trying to shame me if my house is not the most efficient. I am not interested in personal insight about my energy usage. I don’t use that much.