Paying for electricity
How many stay in parks where you have to pay for your electricity especially for long term camping and storage?
Forum Discussion
Don't know if RV park owners are supposed to reply, but, if so here is the way we handle it and why:
We don't charge electricity separately for daily or weekly stays.
Our monthly rate includes an allowance: 600 KWH for 30 amp, 800 for 50 amp.
In year 2010 we were still including electricity in monthly rates, and paid our highest bill for usage in February. Why? Because so many people were buying the cheap plug-in electric heaters and using them instead of their RV's propane system. We are in Texas where summer's heat should have demanded the highest use!
We studied the situation for a long time before arriving at the KWH allowance we built into the rates. We felt that should satisfy both sides of the question;
1, the persons on a tight budget would use their electricity frugally. and 2, those who could afford it and wanted it could use all they wanted, but they would pay if they went over their allowance,
It has worked beautifully so far as we are concerned, for we are strong
believers in "paying your own way", and that "one plan does not fit all".
We don't charge electricity separately for daily or weekly stays.
Our monthly rate includes an allowance: 600 KWH for 30 amp, 800 for 50 amp.
In year 2010 we were still including electricity in monthly rates, and paid our highest bill for usage in February. Why? Because so many people were buying the cheap plug-in electric heaters and using them instead of their RV's propane system. We are in Texas where summer's heat should have demanded the highest use!
We studied the situation for a long time before arriving at the KWH allowance we built into the rates. We felt that should satisfy both sides of the question;
1, the persons on a tight budget would use their electricity frugally. and 2, those who could afford it and wanted it could use all they wanted, but they would pay if they went over their allowance,
It has worked beautifully so far as we are concerned, for we are strong
believers in "paying your own way", and that "one plan does not fit all".
