Electricity rates

[Bob Ha]

What !! you have a choice on who supplies your power?? Everywhere i have ever lived you only have one choice, power or no power. Ihave lived in 7 places including with my parents when i was a kid. two of the houses were in same municiplality bacically and where i live now is 3 hours from there yet same power company. This is SCEG i have had duke power and an elec co op and town power in one place. Never did i have a choice of providers? Maybe in mega cities like DFW area but not in smaller markets, even the 3 biggest cities in SC only have 1 choice, so its not a choice really.

I have many providers that do the billing but in my area but ONCOR handles the actual electricity and maintenance. I think it's called TDU but I'm not sure. The providers are only a billing service. See link below

Power to Choose

 

[Carl_NH]

We pay about $.18 per KWH here in PSNH utlilty. For 550KWH $95 a month

The delivery charge, base charge, stranded line costs, etc total $50 of the total or $.09 per KWH

Then the actual electricity is $.085 per KWH

We could buy the electricity from a co-op for $.075 so would save $5 a month but there are other areas we can save more - such as reduced use..

Having a 1.5HP deep well sub pump and irrigation and A/C units in the summer push our usage up to 900KWH and the bill goes up by $30-35 those months. So it does get little less the more we use, but its still high.

 

[LD1]

Central ohio and a rural coop, I am at 10.5-11 cents per kwh.

I average ~2000kwh usage and bills between 210-220

 

[LD1]

Rates do vary all over the county. The information is available online.

US Electric Rates by State

Interesting, BUT........just like everything else I can find online regarding this subject.......

ITS ABOUT 5 YEARS OUT OF DATE:confused2:

the information (if it is out there somewhere) I havent been able to ever find. I dont care what the rates were 5 years ago:confused2:

On a side note, that chart is pretty accurate for the date. Because 5 years ago, it was ~8.5 cents in ohio

 

[dmccarty]

Usually we pay 10 cents per KWH. Sometimes it is 11 cents but that is rare. I take the total bill and divide by the KWH used.

We only have one choice to supply power.

Later,
Dan

 

[ultrarunner]

WHAT!! I thought our 12 cents an hour rates were about middle of the road and like 16 cents an hour was high. 30 cents an hour seems outragous. How can you even afford to run your AC or turn on lights!! My summer power bills hurt when there around $240. At your prices they would be nearly $700 month!!

Just checked the rate schedule and the above is accurate... it comes out even higher with the total charge is divided by Kwh...

I've never lived in a home with A/C .... only one house in the neighborhood has it and that was because the wife was an invalid...

Part of the reason CA has lots of Solar installs is undoubtedly tied to our high Kwh costs...

The tiered rate is basically enough for a small refrigerator and some lights...

http://www.pge.com/tariffs/ResElecCurrent.xls

 

[MtHam]

California has some of the highest rates in the country due to bad decisions made in the late 90's by our elected state officials. They locked us into outrageous future energy costs with long term contracts because they feared shortages. The Enron bubble was part of the deal. $0.35/kwh and higher is a reality for large users at peak hours. PG&E's tiered rate system provides a small # of kwh's at a low rate, but then steps progressively higher as you use more. It makes investing in solar a smart decision. Thus, my 6kw grid tied array will pay for itself in less than 10 years, quicker as the rates go higher, which is almost a certainty. They plan on having everyone on a "time of use" meter in the near future. Thus if you run your AC on summer afternoons (highest rates) you will be forced to pay their outrageously high top prices. Fortunately for me, this is when my solar system is producing the most, and I sell most of the output to them at their top rate!

 

[grsthegreat]

$0.055/kwh here in north idaho. Hydroelectric power here. Bills run about 80-90 bucks per month. Have heat pump and a/c. Dont use the a/c much as we dont have too many real hot days.

Cooktop and water heaters are gas. Back up emergency heat is also gas

 

[clemsonfor]

Dosent it get like 90 degrees there in the summer? No AC how do you sleep with your house in the 80s!

 

[wthompson]

Here in southeast Georgia we pay $0.094 KWH before taxes (county & state):thumbdown: with taxes and one outdoor light it's $0.11 KWH.