Hell I remember back in 93 we moved into our new home and had to wait 3 days for electricity so we slept, read, and basically cooked food off the fireplace.
I love in British Columbia and electricity is a provincial utility organization. I would prefer all utilities be run by the government
Everywhere I’ve ever lived in the US you tell the electric and gas company what date you’ll be moving in or out. The power and gas are normally already turned on and they just switch billing to whoever the new responsible party is.
The landlord will read the meter (often together with you when you get the keys), then you pick an energy provider and give them that meter reading so they can bill you for the energy you’ve used.
then you pick an energy provider
Wait, you guys get multiple choices?
Its a source of annoyance because multiple times a week we have salesmen coming to the door trying to get us to switch providers. Also internet.
Well in NZ we have one big electric network and a system for how load is balanced and payments flow between generators and companies supplying to users of the power.
So while there are exceptions, in general we can choose any company, of which there are about 40.
And there are some big differences. Genesis charges me nothing extra for 3 phase. Some companies charge 3x the fixed fee for 3 phase.
