Electricity Price Increases

[MossRoad]

Same here. Our rate is a nominal .1409, but they tack on a meter charge, a distribution charge, generator fuel charges, etc.

Same here. Our bill last month was $181 for electricity, yet the bill was $272 after all the fees and charges.

 

[Snobdds]

Not one superpower has ever had expensive energy. Remember that important piece of context.

In Wyoming, 2 old coal power plants have reopened to supply power to the data centers for Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. We're all dependent upon Coal. Remember that important piece of context.

There are after treatments on the exhaust. It's a pretty clean power source at this point. Plus it's very cheap to produce a KW/Hr. Remember that important piece of context.

Every area has unique power generation abilities. There shouldn't be just one form of power generation, ie. renewables are great, but they can't provide sustainable base power supply. All power generation should be cheered on...

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Same here. Our bill last month was $181 for electricity, yet the bill was $272 after all the fees and charges.

Here is one for you, I have a water well for my cattle and last month I used 80kw for $6.56 charge, but then tack on a $37.00 access charge from the co-op and miscellaneous state and county taxes that bill totaled out to be $51.36 for the month for less than $7.00 worth of electricity use.

 

[jyoutz]

Could this be a self-fulfilling prophecy? As regulations are enacted, mines are shuttered, prices rise, distances from sources increase, prices rise, plants are shuttered, prices increase, rinse and repeat...

Think about all of the coal infrastructure costs: mining, rail transport, handling at power plant, cleaning and waste disposal. Those all require significant personnel and equipment costs.

 

[jyoutz]

Not one superpower has ever had expensive energy. Remember that important piece of context.

In Wyoming, 2 old coal power plants have reopened to supply power to the data centers for Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. We're all dependent upon Coal. Remember that important piece of context.

There are after treatments on the exhaust. It's a pretty clean power source at this point. Plus it's very cheap to produce a KW/Hr. Remember that important piece of context.

Every area has unique power generation abilities. There shouldn't be just one form of power generation, ie. renewables are great, but they can't provide sustainable base power supply. All power generation should be cheered on...

Agree. A mix of resources is the smart approach. In my state, the base power is natural gas, however only less than 50%.

 

[KennyG]

Same here. Our bill last month was $181 for electricity, yet the bill was $272 after all the fees and charges.

When you say fees and charges, do you mean the distribution? Our bills are broken down into electricity supply, distribution and a bunch of other taxes and fees. The electric generation and distribution is over 90% of the total bill. Distribution isn't cheap. All those lines, transformers and poles cost money.

 

[jyoutz]

You can find anything out there on the internet to backup/support any cause that there is, but the truth will be in the mailbox in your monthly power bill, the company I retired from did it due to pressure from the do-gooder's, mandated no more coal and went with a mix of customer owned solar and a 50 megawatt bio-mass plant to try and ease into it, within 2 years they went from being in the top 3 lowest cost providers in the state to the #1 highest cost municipal provider in the state of Florida.

Well, the coal plants in my state converted to natural gas and we also have about 40% produced by renewables. But not customer owned solar: corporate owned wind and solar fields. The power companies say their operations costs have decreased by tens of millions annually. My monthly bill has been stable for at least the past 5 years.

 

[not2old]

And most of the do-gooder's who put NO MORE COAL signs in their yards are squealing the loudest because they failed to listen to people telling them the true cost of green energy.

And it could be worse. Can you imagine what it would be like if the tariffs on Chinese electric cars should manically disappear?

 

[MossRoad]

And it could be worse. Can you imagine what it would be like if the tariffs on Chinese electric cars should manically disappear?

I see what you did there....

 

[not2old]

Here is one for you, I have a water well for my cattle and last month I used 80kw for $6.56 charge, but then tack on a $37.00 access charge from the co-op and miscellaneous state and county taxes that bill totaled out to be $51.36 for the month for less than $7.00 worth of electricity use.

I had a similar charge on the natural gas bill for the month my rental townhouse was vacant. The total bill was for $28 for $2 worth of gas.