The Powers That Be told us to conserve electricity. We did. We did it so well that the power distribution companies were losing money. They applied for a rate increase. They got it. Rates went up.
It doesn't matter what you do - retrofit, LED, turn down the Tstat, conserve, conserve, conserve. Power bills rise every month. It's systemic; those green energy contracts that McGuinty and Smitherman signed off on will devastate us for years.